[Ohrrpgce] dealing with a corrupted palettes.bin file

2012-04-05 Thread James Paige
I was sent a corrupted rpg file. I believ it was damaged by a bad hard drive. After inputting the password in custom, it would just show a blank screen. After some experimentation, I found that the palettes.bin file was corrupted, and if I copied in a palettes.bin from some other game, everythi

Re: [Ohrrpgce] dealing with a corrupted palettes.bin file

2012-04-06 Thread Ralph Versteegen
On 6 April 2012 10:46, James Paige wrote: > I was sent a corrupted rpg file. I believ it was damaged by a bad hard > drive. After inputting the password in custom, it would just show a > blank screen. After some experimentation, I found that the palettes.bin > file was corrupted, and if I copied i

Re: [Ohrrpgce] dealing with a corrupted palettes.bin file

2012-04-07 Thread James Paige
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:40:52PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote: > On 6 April 2012 10:46, James Paige wrote: > > I was sent a corrupted rpg file. I believ it was damaged by a bad hard > > drive. After inputting the password in custom, it would just show a > > blank screen. After some experimentat

Re: [Ohrrpgce] dealing with a corrupted palettes.bin file

2012-04-07 Thread Ralph Versteegen
On 7 April 2012 17:24, James Paige wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:40:52PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote: >> On 6 April 2012 10:46, James Paige wrote: >> > I was sent a corrupted rpg file. I believ it was damaged by a bad hard >> > drive. After inputting the password in custom, it would just

Re: [Ohrrpgce] dealing with a corrupted palettes.bin file

2012-04-07 Thread David Gowers (kampu)
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Ralph Versteegen wrote: > Anyway, while I was looking at the relumping code I realised it was > quite delicate. If something goes wrong, you'll probably just get a > silently corrupted RPG file. It should be possible to add some safety > checks. Of course I have tro

Re: [Ohrrpgce] dealing with a corrupted palettes.bin file

2012-04-11 Thread Ralph Versteegen
On 7 April 2012 17:24, James Paige wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:40:52PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote: >> On 6 April 2012 10:46, James Paige wrote: >> > I was sent a corrupted rpg file. I believ it was damaged by a bad hard >> > drive. After inputting the password in custom, it would just