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Textures
All of the Blast Corps textures are compressed inside of the ROM using either gzip or one of 6 custom compression schemes.
Texture Table
The texture table stores information about each of the textures used in the display lists. The table is located between offsets 0x4CE0-0xCCE0 in the ROM. Each entry is 8 bytes and stores the texture offset (relative to the table base), the compressed length, and the texture type.
Texture Type 0
Texture type 0 is uncompressed and just memcpy's the data from ROM.
Texture Type 1
Type 1 textures use 16-bit data with lookback to compress RGBA16.
| 15 | 14-10 | 9 - 6 | 5 - 1 | 0 |
| 0 | Red | Green | Blue | A |
| 15 | 14 - 5 | 4 - 0 |
| 1 | Offset (bytes) | Length (16) |
if MSB is 0:
DataOut = ((DataIn & 0xFFC0) << 1) | (DataIn & 0x3F);
this implies that the 7th bit (lsb of green) is always 0
if MSB is 1: copy 'length' 16-bit values from -offset
length16 = DataIn & 0x1F;
offset8 = (DataIn & 0x7FFF) >> 5;
Texture Type 2
Type 2 textures use 32-bit data with lookback to compress RGBA32.
| 15 | 14-11 | 10- 7 | 6 - 3 | 2 - 0 |
| 0 | Red | Green | Blue | Alpha |
| 15 | 14 - 5 | 4 - 0 |
| 1 | Offset (16) | Length (32) |
if MSB is 0:
DataOut = ((DataIn & 0x7800) << 17) | ((DataIn & 0x780) << 13) |
((DataIn & 0x78) << 9) | ((DataIn & 0x7) << 5);
Implies that four LSBs of R,G,B are 0, five LSBs of A are 0
if MSB is 1: copy 'length' 32-bit values from -offset
length32 = DataIn & 0x1F;
offset16 = (DataIn & 0x7FE0) >> 4;
Texture Type 3
Type 3 textures use 16-bit data with lookback to compress IA16.
| 15 | 14 - 8 | 7 | 6 - 0 |
| 0 | Alpha | X | Intensity |
| 15 | 14 - 5 | 4 - 0 |
| 1 | Offset (bytes) | Length (16) |
if MSB is 0:
ByteOut0 = ((DataIn >> 8) << 1);
ByteOut1 = ((DataIn) & 0xFF) << 1);
Implies that the LSBs I and A are 0
if MSB is 1: copy 'length' 16-bit values from -offset
length16 = DataIn & 0x1F;
offset8 = (DataIn & 0x7FFF) >> 5;
Texture Type 4
Type 4 textures use 16-bit data to reference a 16-bit lookup table and 32-bit lookback - used for explosions? RGBA32?
| 15 | 14 - 9 | 8 | 7 - 1 | 0 |
| 0 | Offset1 | LB1 | Offset2 | LB2 |
| 15 | 14 - 5 | 4 - 0 |
| 1 | Offset (16) | Length (32) |
LUT passed through T4, assigned from a0->0xC in 802A57DC(), set from FP
if MSB is 0:
U16Out1 = (LUT[((DataIn >> 8) & 0xFE)] << 1) | ((DataIn >> 8) & 0x1);
U16Out2 = (LUT[(DataIn & 0xFE)] << 1) | (DataIn& 0x1);
if MSB is 1: copy 'length' 32-bit values from -offset
length32 = DataIn & 0x1F;
offset16 = (DataIn & 0x7FE0) >> 4;
Texture Type 5
Type 5 textures use 16-bit data with a 32-bit lookup table and lookback - maybe used for some text?
| 15 | 14 - 4 | 3 - 0 |
| 0 | Offset | LSBs |
| 15 | 14 - 5 | 4 - 0 |
| 1 | Offset (16) | Length (32) |
Similar to Type 4, T4 passed in as LUT
if MSB is 0:
Offset = (DataIn >> 4) << 1;
Tmp16 = (LUT[Offset] << 1) | ((DataIn >> 8) & 0x1);
U32Out = ((Tmp16 & 0x7C00) << 17) | ((Tmp16 & 0x3E0) << 14) |
((Tmp16 & 0x1F) << 11) | ((DataIn & 0xF) << 4);
if MSB is 1: copy 'length' 32-bit values from -offset
length32 = DataIn & 0x1F;
offset16 = (DataIn & 0x7FE0) >> 4;
Texture Type 6
Type 6 textures are primarily used to compress IA8 fonts using 16-bit data with lookback.
| 15 | 14 | 13-11 | 10-8 | 7-6 | 5-3 | 2-0 |
| 0 | X | I1 | A1 | X | I2 | A2 |
| 15 | 14 - 5 | 4 - 0 |
| 1 | Offset (bytes) | Length (16) |
