Any info about TIM3 textures? I think OKAMI using this format.

Replace textures with fonts

I have PC version.

This link - first 4mb from PS2 STAGE.DAT May be somebody understand that file format
http://www.gis-center.com/forum/STAGE_M ... st_4mb.rar
I hope that Solidus supports MGS2 PS2 in future.

Structure of STAGE.DAT file from MGS2 PS2 is different that GameGube TS STAGE.DAT?

One more argument in favour of zlib. You try compress stage.dat (with any archiver)? You see a low compress ratio for archive... a think becouse stage.dat already compressed. Compare uncompressed PC stage.dat folder (mgs2) with PS2 stage.dat... We have 4000Mb vs. 600 Mb. I dont think that dds-textur...

What makes you think that the MGS2 PS2 models are ZLIB compressed by the way? If you load elf from mgs2 in hex editor, you see that used inflate library (v1.2.1). Inflate is part of zlib, that library very portable :) Why KONAMI add this library to projec? May be for compress/decompress saves on me...

http://www.gis-center.com/forum/CODEC.rar
This link for codec.dat (~5Mb in RAR) from NTSC US MGS3 SE. I think it contains only English language, but encoding of text is unknown

lionheartuk wrote:...BUT i DO need to make an ISO file of MGS3 and MGS3 Substance to see if there is any hidden data that might be helpful in figuring it all out.

MGS3 don't contain any hidden data. I think models are compressed with zlib like PS2 MGS2.

I mean that my codec.dat has 29839488 bytes NTSC version, English text only.

lionheartuk, what size (in bytes) of CODEC.DAT from your MGS3se DVD? Size of ELF? (SLUS* of SLES*)

Ie: english word may be SOCK and other language translation must be EQUAL lengh and ammount of characters so SOKKU is INCORRECT and KOSO would be correct. Don't understand that you mind, my english soo poor :) I want to get english text from CODEC.DAT, for translation. But text data has some encodi...

Any info about CODEC.DAT file format? It contains text data for codec dialogs.

So, what about "MGS2 SUBSTANCE PC file Anaylisis guide"? Its ready?
Where I get this guide ?

lionheartuk, you think that MGS3 files compressed with deflate-algoritm?