Resource Container (RCO)

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Description

Resource Container Objet (RCO) are used by XMB

XMB modules (also known as plugins) accesses the .rco files contents, see Plugin Interfaces and VSH

• Compression types availables:
  • ZLIB
  • RLZ
  • Uncompressed

Contents

• RCO contents (See Multimedia Formats and Tools):
  • Text for all languages, (see XMB Fonts formatting)
    • utf8
    • utf16
    • utf32
  • images (internally called textures or in his short form: "tex")
    • png
    • jpg
    • tif
    • gif
    • bmp
    • gim
  • sounds (for cursor navigation, trophy unlocking, etc...)
    • vag
    • unknown0x0 (rcomage is able to identify this type of sound, but his format is unknown)
  • Models
    • gmo

RCO Structure

The container structure can be represented as an XML (see RCOXML), with rcomage is posible to generate this XML when extracting, and for rebuilding the rco using the XML as a layout

Header

RCO Fileformat magic in PSP is "PRF" (little endian). In PS3 is "FRP" (big endian)