cinepak

Bootable Sega CD + 32X Cinepak FMV player with asynchronous CD streaming

Native PC reimplementation of Highlander: The Last of the MacLeods (Atari Jaguar CD, 1995). Engine documentation, disc-format reverse engineering and extraction tools. BYOA.

A CD-ROM measured from its raw sectors: the 1997 European PC port of Resident Evil. 312,982 Mode 1 sectors all verified; the first object in this collection whose filesystem dates the work rather than the copy, in Japanese wall-clock under a European timezone byte; 2,601 PlayStation textures inside a Win32 game.

Lucignolo Il Videogioco (7Th Sense, 2007) measured from a Burn4Free ISO: the copy protection is a six-byte file containing the word codice, every file's sector padding echoes the data 65,536 bytes earlier, and the engine names itself in a log the developers shipped by accident.

Wolfenstein 3D (3DO, USA, 1995) read end to end: 56,702 sectors, 197 files, 59.79 % recorded audio. The Data Streamer the 3DO checklist had marked dead for two discs, decoded frame by frame - and its codec is Cinepak, spelled 'cvid' in lower case. Six two-disc rules broken.

A Japanese 3DO CD-ROM of April 1994 that presses a third of itself twice. 80 files with up to seven copies, 90,050,560 bytes of duplicated content against a platform rule, and the unit of duplication is a contiguous run of files across directories. Eight Cinepak films, 77 IMAG images, 1,157 cels, and the game's script in plain Shift-JIS.

One retail 3DO CD-ROM, measured: FIFA International Soccer (Europe), 1994. 63.35 % of it is 43 Cinepak films of 1960s-80s World Cup footage - 19,597 frames at exactly 15 fps, all decoded. Data Streamer with no SHDR. Two studio formats derived. No product bytes.

The canonical 3DO platform checklist, to be carried across documentation pipelines: the Opera filesystem at sector 0 (not ISO 9660), ARM6 big-endian code behind LaunchMe, CELs and Cel Control Blocks, SDX2 audio and the Data Streamer. A scaffold - every claim is marked [unverified] until a disc says otherwise.

Linux-first Sega Saturn video disc builder for Saroo using FFmpeg, CPK/FILM tools, and automated ISO/BIN/CUE generation

AD&D Slayer (3DO, 1994) documented from a CHD: 151,340 sectors all attributed, 87.6184 % identified, 67.4093 % uncompressed AIFF, the ANIM container walked (370 files, 2,516 frames), a twin whose OS differs by 68 bytes, and a pressing date in /rom_tags. Credits decoded, counted, not transcribed.