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'''Yaz0''' is a compression format designed by Nintendo for use in game development. It is found in many Nintendo titles from the 2000s (ie. Mario Kart Wii, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, etc...) and is often used to compress an archive (like [http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/RARC_(Nintendo) RARC]) containing model and texture files. It is a form of RLE, or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding run-length encoding] (A lossless data compression method) and usually shows up in .szs files. Compressed files can be easily identified in a hex editor, as the first 4 bytes of the header read "Yaz0", in ASCII.
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'''Yaz0''' is a compression format designed by Nintendo for use in game development. It is found in many Nintendo titles from the 2000s (ie. Mario Kart Wii, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, etc...) and is often used to compress an archive (like [[RARC]]) containing model and texture files. It is a form of RLE, or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding run-length encoding] (A lossless data compression method) and usually shows up in .szs files. Compressed files can be easily identified in a hex editor, as the first 4 bytes of the header read "Yaz0", in ASCII.
  
 
== Tools that handle Yaz0 compressed files ==
 
== Tools that handle Yaz0 compressed files ==

Revision as of 05:17, 10 April 2019

File Format
Name Yaz0
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Extension(s) .szs

Yaz0 is a compression format designed by Nintendo for use in game development. It is found in many Nintendo titles from the 2000s (ie. Mario Kart Wii, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, etc...) and is often used to compress an archive (like RARC) containing model and texture files. It is a form of RLE, or run-length encoding (A lossless data compression method) and usually shows up in .szs files. Compressed files can be easily identified in a hex editor, as the first 4 bytes of the header read "Yaz0", in ASCII.

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