American Laser Games LIB

LIB

• Format Type : Archive
• Endian Order : Little Endian

Format Specifications

Header

 uint16 {2}  magic               always set to 0x03fc
 uint32 {4}  index_offset        offset to index table (bytes, relative start of LIB file + 0x6)

Index table, stored at end of LIB file

 uint16 {2}  index_length        length of index table
 while not end of file
   uint32 {4}  preamble_offset   offset to preamble (bytes, relative to start of LIB file)
   char {13}   filename          filename (ASCIIZ)

File preamble

 uint32 {4}  file_length         length of file (bytes)
 the contents of the file follows the preamble.

Note: the last index entry appears always has the file name set to all zero's, and the preamble_offset set to an invalid file offset. This may be a checksum.

MultiEx BMS Script

to be written

Compatible Programs

none yet

Games

These American Laser Games titles use the LIB format to pack their data:

• Crime Patrol
• Mad Dog McCree
• Mad Dog McCree II: The Lost Gold

As they belong to the same genre, these ALG games are suspected to also use this LIB format:

• Crime Patrol II: Drug Wars
• Who Shot Johnny Rock
• Space Pirates

Credit

This description was originally written by Peter Ross (suxen_drol at hotmail dot com).