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Opening strange NES "compressed" formats?
« on: August 22, 2021, 09:00:24 PM »
I came across a Russian YouTube channel by the name of "Всё Китай" (https://www.youtube.com/c/%D0%92%D1%81%D1%91%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%A0%D0%A3), which reviews a bunch of plug & play-ish consoles and whatnot. Generously, some of the videos' descriptions link to full dumps of the SD card directories for the consoles - some of which include NES ROMs.

...In most cases, however, all of the ROMs are in strange, seemingly compressed formats. Some consoles have ".ncs" files (in https://youtu.be/8yFOGyDk1QM & https://youtu.be/ti4cVkOJuek), another has ".zfc" files (in https://youtu.be/1LXntKWCizY), etc. While I messed around with some files to experiment, I couldn't figure out any way to turn them back into proper ".nes" file format. Does anyone have a clue as to how the ROMs could be properly extracted?

I'm guessing there's nothing unique on these, they all seem to be (badly) renamed internet ROMs; though I did see a few curious names that I don't recognize (like "Gird Dance.ncs", and completely indecipherable crap like "d4cjqrdz.ncs"). I think it's worth checking over to see if anything unique is buried in these...