.arc files and compression in psx games

i had a project of translating a game, but it seems it has compressed text.... anyone have some idea how to manage it? the compressed files seems to be .arc (not the same arc compression used on *nix tought...)


is there a special tool in sony's devkit, is it standard or i would have to reverse enginering it out? if so, any suggestions?

karsten

 

99 % chances this is a custom compression, so you'll have to reverse it and build your own tools.
Which game is it?

 

saga frontier.

damn i don't have the skill for that

 

Square games are known to be non-standard, so, good luck with that (or you can ask Gemini )

 

There is no trace of an "arc" format in the official SDK, so as djelaba suggested it's custom. Pretty much all games use something like that. It's really a standard of not-standards.

 

oh my... how i'm going to solve this mess? there's some guys trying to work for creating custom patches for the game, but we'll need to figure out how to compress decompress these files and how to open and modify the pictures....

here is a discussion:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=198537&topic=47311426

and some of the users have some webpages dedicated to the hacking and understanding...

 

Anyone else is willingly to became the hero of the SaGa Fans?

any help is appreciated.