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Research the RSM 1.5 modifications (presumed unused position animations) #100

Open rdw-software opened 10 months ago

rdw-software commented 10 months ago

Observation: RSM 1.5 files have an additional 4 bytes that are unaccounted for in the different implementations.

It seems that they're usually skipped as they can successfully be asserted to be zero bytes in every known instance, so no functional difference will be seen. My hypothesis is that these are "position animations" which are similarly unused as the "scale animations", later added in RSM2.

In the current decoder, tests and implementation ascertain that:

Conflicting information was provided by these sources:

What could be done to possibly verify/disprove the hypothesis: