Introduction

This a library to parse Crash Team Racing data files, some of it is based on DCxDemo's work

See the reversing guide, and the modding guide

Status

Done or mostly done

• BIGFILE.BIG
• TIM files
• TIM2x
• lang

Building

Requirements

• clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/tatref/libctr
cd libctr/

• Install java
• Install kaitai-struct-compiler-0.8 (see http://kaitai.io/#download for details)

wget https://dl.bintray.com/kaitai-io/universal/0.8/kaitai-struct-compiler-0.8.zip
unzip kaitai-struct-compiler-0.8.zip

• Install graphviz (optional). For visual block diagrams

Building the libs

The source for each file format is at ./kaitai-struct. To build, the Python/Java/... libs from it, just run

./create_libs.sh

Formats mapping

Extension	ksy	Description
.BIG	ctr_bigfile.ksy	BIGFILE.BIG
.vram	ctr_tim2x.ksy	textures
.ctr	ctr_character.ksy	characters
.lev	ctr_level.ksy	levels
.lng	ctr_lang.ksy	translations

Usage

See examples

Gallery

Block diagrams

Web IDE (https://ide.kaitai.io/)

For a tutorial, see Kaitaistruct_WebIDE_Tutorial

Level

Character