Comment by noufalibrahim

This is an interesting post. I've been spending time on a hobby project[1] that requires reading some old archives and game asset files. I didn't have to do any reverse engineering since it's already done by others and documented on on the moddingwiki. However, I did implement the algorithms myself to work with the assets.

It's an interesting rabbit hole to go down into and this post makes me appreciate the way in which this kind of forensic analysis is done.

1: https://eye-of-the-gopher.github.io/