So, upon a request from ANOTHER friend, I decided to dig up my hex editor and crack back into an old, but familiar game, StarFox Adventures. I started by just looking at some odd stuff, the root folder's bin formats... 'till I got to the level folders. I was kinda shocked at what I found. Texture Archives, presumably TEX0.bin and TEX1.bin, respectively, are just container formats with ZLIB-stream compressed textures (fortunately I can read the difference between each file and where they begin/end with my hex editor). No real "structure" to them, until I noticed the .tab files... These appear to be the "skeletons", defining the structure of their accompanying containers. (This is skeptical however, I'm only halfway deep in this stuff.) I'm currently comparing files to see what's different and what's similar. I may have a header format to some commonly viewed things soon. Thanks to my UK friend for providing me with inspiration and forcing me to jot this down on my "Projects" list. EDIT: Wow... they REALLY liked to use ZLIB...
http://pastebin.com/Zv8UVKah After some digging, I've found this. I've searched through the entirity of the GCM, none of these other files (aside from standard ones contained in level folders) exist. This leads me to believe that Rare had pre-coded the extractor to rip default files from archives. I'll keep digging, but string table suggest that I've found how it loads levels...
Check the GC ISO program you're using, of the 2 I've tried, one of them rarely shows any files at all, and the other shows files most of the time but sometimes misses out quite a few files. Don't think there is one, annoyingly, but there might be a GCM extracter in the dolphin or revolution SDK
I'm using GC-Tool, and have extracted the entire thing. I also checked the file tables myself. Nothing there.
