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Aug 6, 2011, 01:58 PM
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Any investigation into .lev format should of course be informed by an understanding of .j2l and .j2t (and possibly, though unlikely, LEVELX.XXX and BLOCKS.XXX) formats, since there will likely be things in common. All I know offhand is that the event structure (EVNT), stored as the antepenultimate section(?) in .lev files, looks identical to its .j2l counterpart, and the final section is the color palette and is formatted in a straightforward RGBRGBRGB order without the useless alpha values from .j2t files. That said, such investigation should also probably take place in a separate thread

In the realm of the obvious, people should probably compare .lev files to their closest counterparts, e.g. battle1.j2l and castle1.j2t for battle1.lev. As far as I know, j2ff remains the best tool for extracting the data streams for .j2l and .j2t files; it doesn't work well for TSF levels, but fortunately that's not relevant here!
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