Talk:Genie data

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This utility set has been cited as a primary means of decompressing AoE's game data. Judging by the description on the website, this set is basically an interface to the zlib DLLs, and the fact that it can be used to decompress the game data means that it must be compressed with the standard DEFLATE algorithm. Does this mean that I can decompress the data with any DEFLATE-capable archiver (say, 7-zip) and recompress it with the same, or would the game choke on that? I'm not very familiar with compression algorithms, sorry. --Aurochs

As far as I know, the answer is no. Every compression format I know of has some kind of header with it. Even the zlib format itself has a two-byte header with information about the compression method, etc. On a side, note, I'm trying to phase out zlibnoh because AOKTS can do the same thing now. --DiGiT

Yeah, I tried it with 7-Zip and gunzip, and neither worked. Oh well. --Aurochs