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Thankfully, someone named conanac made an ASH compressor that was never released until we asked for it, and he recovered it from an old computer. The source code seems to be lost for it, however the compiled executable is available on MarioCube and [https://gbatemp.net/download/ash-compressor.34055/ GBATemp]. The program compresses into an .lzp and .lzd, and then a .hfp and .hfd (a data and dictionary file).

Thankfully, someone named conanac made an ASH compressor that was never released until we asked for it, and he recovered it from an old computer. The source code seems to be lost for it, however the compiled executable is available on MarioCube and [https://gbatemp.net/download/ash-compressor.34055/ GBATemp]. The program compresses into an .lzp and .lzd, and then a .hfp and .hfd (a data and dictionary file).

Doing some research, and talking to aluigi (the maker of a tool called QuickBMS which extracts all sorts of game archives), we've traced what might be the compression used to an old program by someone named Charles Bloom. aluigi mentioned the format being an ASM->C conversion (whatever that means), and that's what the program seems to do. He said that when he looked at the file format, checking the first few offsets of the file, the data made no sense. We think the ASH format should have more documentation at some point. The Wii Menu Settings And first time Setup Are In a file called iplsetting.ash at NAND:transf/wiisettings/US2

Doing some research, and talking to aluigi (the maker of a tool called QuickBMS which extracts all sorts of game archives), we've traced what might be the compression used to an old program by someone named Charles Bloom. aluigi mentioned the format being an ASM->C conversion (whatever that means), and that's what the program seems to do. He said that when he looked at the file format, checking the first few offsets of the file, the data made no sense. We think the ASH format should have more documentation at some point.

[[Category:Wii]]

[[Category:Wii]]