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RE: XG Reader, XG file format
Posted By: eXtreme Gammon In Response To: XG Reader? (Question also for Xavier) (Higonefive)
Date: Wednesday, 10 August 2011, at 1:01 p.m.
I can see the value of a reader program. however, like often, this is not a question of complexity, but a matter of finding spare time to do that.
As for the XG formet, this is not a secret. I did not publish the format because it is a rather complicated. A XG file contains in fact 4 files that are compressed together using Zlib.
the game file itself (Binary fixed size structure). the rollout results (Binary fixed size structure). the comments, in RTF format, delimited with CR+LF a header record (1st record of the game) for quickly reading file information. On top of that the file is prefixed by a Rich Save Game structure (see here) which was a something Microsoft introduced in Vista, but dropped in Windows 7 (which is a pity, IMO, Vista user can see a thumbnail of the game and other information in the explorer such as player, length, match comment etc..)
I will document the whole format one day.
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