Talk:PlayStation archive (PSARC)

PSARC structure notes

Debian psarc Kplugin structure. From Manuel Stahl (thymythos) @ http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php/PSARC+file+header?content=162745

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

  <struct name="header">
    <primitive name="magic" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="version" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="compression" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="TOC length" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="TOC entry size" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="num_entries" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="max block size" type="UInt32" />
    <primitive name="archive flags" type="UInt32" />
    <array name="TOC" length="num_entries">
      <struct name="entry">
        <array name="MD5" length="16"><primitive type="UInt8"/></array>
        <primitive name="zIndex" type="UInt32" />
        <bitfield name="length" width="40" type="unsigned" />
        <bitfield name="offset" width="40" type="unsigned" />
      </struct>
    </array>
    <array name="block sizes" length="num_entries">
      <bitfield name="size" width="16" type="unsigned" />
    </array>
  </struct>

PSARC header example:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
00000000  50 53 41 52 00 01 00 04 7A 6C 69 62 00 01 23 BA  PSAR....zlib..#º
00000010  00 00 00 1E 00 00 09 16 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 02  ................