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|Map title. Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 64 characters (including the NUL). Should generally be ASCII, though | |Map title. Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 64 characters (including the NUL). Should generally be ASCII, though some programs interpret this as Latin-1 or Windows-1252. <!-- XXX what does MSCC do with a long title or byte over 128? --> | ||
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|$02 | |$02 | ||
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|[[Hint]] text. Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 128 characters (including the NUL). Should generally be ASCII, though | |[[Hint]] text. Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 128 characters (including the NUL). Should generally be ASCII, though some programs interpret this as Latin-1 or Windows-1252. <!-- XXX what does MSCC do with a long title or byte over 128? --> | ||
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==== 10: Monster list ==== | ==== 10: Monster list ==== | ||
Contains zero or more of the following structure. As this structure is 2 bytes in size, the chunk size should be a multiple of 2, and there cannot be more than | Contains zero or more of the following structure. As this structure is 2 bytes in size, the chunk size should be a multiple of 2, and there cannot be more than 127 moving monsters in a level. | ||
{| class="wikitable" border="1" | {| class="wikitable" border="1" | ||
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|- | |- | ||
|$00 | |$00 | ||
| | |1 | ||
|x-coordinate of monster | |x-coordinate of monster | ||
|- | |- | ||
|$02 | |$02 | ||
| | |1 | ||
|y-coordinate of monster | |y-coordinate of monster | ||
|} | |} | ||
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Tile World in Lynx mode will ignore this structure and always allow any number of monsters to move as normal. | Tile World in Lynx mode will ignore this structure and always allow any number of monsters to move as normal. | ||
==== 9: Author ==== | |||
{| class="wikitable" border="1" | |||
!Offset | |||
!Bytes | |||
!Content | |||
|- | |||
|$02 | |||
|? | |||
|Author's name. Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 128 characters (including the NUL). Typically encoded as Windows-1252 or Latin-1. | |||
|} | |||
This chunk is not present in the original game, and was later created as a community extension to include author info without relying on other files. This chunk is ignored by MSCC and early Tile World versions. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[C2M]], the more flexible format used in [[Chip's Challenge 2]] | * [[C2M]], the more flexible format used in [[Chip's Challenge 2]] | ||
== External Links == | |||
* [http://www.seasip.info/ccfile.html Explanation of the CHIPS.DAT format] | |||
* Implementation in [[Tile World]]: [https://github.com/zrax/tworld/blob/master/series.c <code>series.c</code>] (whole file) and [https://github.com/zrax/tworld/blob/master/encoding.c <code>encoding.c</code>] (individual level) | * Implementation in [[Tile World]]: [https://github.com/zrax/tworld/blob/master/series.c <code>series.c</code>] (whole file) and [https://github.com/zrax/tworld/blob/master/encoding.c <code>encoding.c</code>] (individual level) | ||
* Implementation in [[Lexy's Labyrinth]]: [https://github.com/eevee/lexys-labyrinth/blob/master/js/format-dat.js <code>js/format-dat.js</code>] | * Implementation in [[Lexy's Labyrinth]]: [https://github.com/eevee/lexys-labyrinth/blob/master/js/format-dat.js <code>js/format-dat.js</code>] | ||
[[Category:Terminology]] | [[Category:Terminology]] | ||
[[Category:File formats]] | [[Category:File formats]] | ||