gamefreak/Athena — Issue #8: Provide a "single file" format
Author: sfiera
Created: 2011-10-10 21:21:19+00:00
State: open

For Antares support, what I would ideally like to get from Athena would be a single file that was an archive of the resource data. For example, for the factory scenario, a good format would be a zip file which extracted to:

bsob/
500.bsob
snro/
500.snro
SMIV/
499 question mark.SMIV
500 Sprite Cursor.SMIV
501 Shovelnose, Brighter.SMIV
…
snd/
500 Shot C.snd
501 Combo Exp 11kHz.snd
…

Note that resources from all of the Ares Data files are present. I don't care specifically about it being a zip file, though my guess is that it would be the easiest archive format to support.

I could deal with other formats. Notably, a zip file containing the four Ares Data files could also work. Dealing with the folder directly isn't an option, because Antares doesn't use the resource fork (zip files encode the resource fork into the data fork, which makes it OK). However, the format I outlined above is a much cleaner format, and I assume it's not much more work. It might even be a more convenient native format for Athena itself.