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PS Vita File Formats

Robert Jordan edited this page Mar 11, 2020 · 7 revisions

PS Vita File Formats

⚠️ WORK IN PROGRESS ⚠️

Not much work has been done in this area, but currently 3 existing image formats used for PS Vita CatSystem2 games are known:

Pages marked with next to them have had the known extent of their file structure fully documented.

Wiki Page Magic Description
CZ0 Image CZ0 Least complex of 3 CZX image formats, with raw pixel data
CZ1 Image CZ1 More complex CZX image format, with LZW compression, possibly for fonts
CZ2 Image CZ2 Most complex CZX image format, with LZW compression and deltafilter

Encryption/Compression

Wiki Page Description
LZW Compression A universal lossless data compression algorithm
Delta encoding An encoding that uses the differences of preceding bytes
Elias gamma coding A universal code encoding based on specific numbers

Data Types

See File Formats for basic information types.

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