Talk:Strike Witches: Silver Wing/Notes

Somehow only just found this page after having done my own GGXArchiver research a while back, and there's a few things I've noticed that aren't mentioned here.

In the header, the first two dwords actually represent number of path chunks, and number of files. Each 32 bytes in the file list is a path chunk, and what's noted down here as being "File ID" and "static 1" in the file metadata would be more appropriately named "Path chunk ID", and "Path chunks used". The latter is not a static number like you thought, but it's rare that a path is long enough that it exceeds 1 chunk anyway.

Additionally, (C)2007GULTICO GGX Archive System. Created By Osamu Chadani is actually not just a developer credit; this string and the garbage text that's after is actually used as a XOR key. Mamorukun Curse uses a XOR cipher for smaller files (so, uncompressed), while BPE is used for larger files. 0x10-0x13 could be more appropriately named "method" in this case.

I went and put up my script a while back, and you can find it at this gist. DarkOK (talk) 17:54, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Hey, just saw your post. Thanks for letting me know and sorry if out of date documentation caused any headaches. Yeah, I eventually did figure out the distinction between file count and name table entry count (I didn't call them chunks but same idea). Interesting to know that there is an option for encryption, so far I have not encountered any encrypted files in Strike Witches. I've updated the documentation on the main page to reflect this. Anonmoosekaab (talk) 03:17, 23 July 2025 (UTC)