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		<title>Sembiance: sample files</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;sample files&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Format description ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Format description ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [https://github.com/FaithBeam/Sims.Far/blob/master/Sims.Far/Far.cs Source code for reading .far files]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [https://github.com/FaithBeam/Sims.Far/blob/master/Sims.Far/Far.cs Source code for reading .far files]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Game data files]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;[[Category:Game data files]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Sembiance</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Foxtrot at 22:37, 26 November 2022</title>
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		<author><name>Foxtrot</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Dan Tobias at 21:31, 16 February 2020</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''FAR''' is an archiving format used for game data files in The Sims. It has a field giving the format version, which is always 1 in all known files. It stores the length of each file twice, which has produced speculation that one of these is actually intended to be the compressed size, but no known files of this format use any sort of compression.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''FAR''' is an archiving format used for game data files in The Sims. It has a field giving the format version, which is always 1 in all known files. It stores the length of each file twice, which has produced speculation that one of these is actually intended to be the compressed size, but no known files of this format use any sort of compression.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Dan Tobias</name></author>	</entry>

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		<title>Dan Tobias: Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving |extensions={{ext|far}} |magic=FAR!byAZ |endianness=Little endian }} '''FAR''' is an archiving format used for game data files in The Sims. It h...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;{{FormatInfo |subcat=Archiving |extensions={{ext|far}} |magic=FAR!byAZ |endianness=Little endian }} &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;FAR&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is an archiving format used for game data files in The Sims. It h...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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'''FAR''' is an archiving format used for game data files in The Sims. It has a field giving the format version, which is always 1 in all known files. It stores the length of each file twice, which has produced speculation that one of these is actually intended to be the compressed size, but no known files of this format use any sort of compression.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Magic bytes ==&lt;br /&gt;
The files start with &amp;lt;code&amp;gt;FAR!byAZ&amp;lt;/code&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Format description ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://simtech.sourceforge.net/tech/far.html File format info]&lt;br /&gt;
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