XAR Archive

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XAR

• Format Type : Archive
  
• Endian Order : Little Endian
  
• Signature : xar!
  

Format Specifications

//header
4 bytes (char) - signature // "xar!"
2 bytes (uint16) - header size
2 bytes (uint16) - version  // 1
8 bytes (uint64) - length of the TOC compressed data
8 bytes (uint64) - length of the TOC uncompressed data
4 bytes (uin32) - checksum algorithm   // 0 - none
                                       // 1 - SHA1
                                       // 2 - MD5
                                       // 3 - SHA-256
                                       // 4 - SHA-512
x bytes - padding


// TOC
x bytes - TOC data  // compressed with zlib


// data
x bytes - data  // can be compressed with GZIP, BZIP2, XZ or LZMA

Notes and Comments

None.

Games

List of games using this file format:

• TODO

QuickBMS Script

Not written yet.

Compatible Programs

• Easy 7-zip

See Also

• XAR description (wikipedia)