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@@ -324,6 +324,22 @@ code to reassemble these chunks, the following observations were made:
drawings. These bytes appear to be some kind of padding as changing them
appears to have no effect and does not show up in the drawing.
+Using the reassembled message data, the following message was decoded as an
+experiment:
+
+![](../assets/first-decode-pictochat.png)
+
+Wireshark allows you to easily save the binary content of a dissection field to
+a file:
+
+![](../assets/first-decode-ws.png)
+
+Resulting decoded image:
+
+<div style="background-color: black; padding: 4px; font-size: 0px; display: inline-block;">
+<img src="../assets/first-decode.png"/>
+</div>
+
## Unsure/notes
- Is the endianness of the DS properly emulated?
diff --git a/experiments/conv/.gitignore b/experiments/conv/.gitignore
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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+venv
+__pycache__
+*.bin
+*.png
diff --git a/experiments/conv/consts.py b/experiments/conv/consts.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+PICTOCHAT_PALETTE = (
+ (0xff, 0xff, 0xff),
+ (0x00, 0x00, 0x00),
+ (0xd3, 0xcb, 0xc3),
+ (0xeb, 0x00, 0xeb),
+ (0xfb, 0x00, 0x8a),
+ (0xfb, 0x00, 0x28),
+ (0xfb, 0x49, 0x00),
+ (0xfb, 0xa2, 0x00),
+ (0xe3, 0xf3, 0x00),
+ (0x82, 0xfb, 0x00),
+ (0x10, 0xfb, 0x20),
+ (0x00, 0xfb, 0xba),
+ (0x00, 0xc3, 0xfb),
+ (0x00, 0x79, 0xfb),
+ (0x00, 0x30, 0xfb),
+ (0x28, 0x00, 0xfb),
+)
diff --git a/experiments/conv/pc2png b/experiments/conv/pc2png
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@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#!/bin/python3
+
+import sys
+import re
+import math
+import io
+
+from PIL import Image
+
+from consts import PICTOCHAT_PALETTE
+
+DS_TILE_SIZE = 8
+TILE_BYTES = 32 # tiles are stored in 32 bytes chunks
+
+TILES_HORIZONTAL = 32
+
+# convert a single DS tile (8x8) from packed palette index format to RGB colors
+def convert_chunk(img, chunk, offset):
+ palette_indices = []
+ for byte in chunk:
+ palette_indices += [
+ (byte >> 0) & 0x0f,
+ (byte >> 4) & 0x0f,
+ ]
+
+ for i, palette_idx in enumerate(palette_indices):
+ color = PICTOCHAT_PALETTE[palette_idx]
+ location = (
+ i % DS_TILE_SIZE + offset[0],
+ i // DS_TILE_SIZE + offset[1],
+ )
+ img.putpixel(location, color)
+
+# convert a string of tiles into a PNG image
+def pc2png(data):
+ tile_count = math.floor(len(data) / TILE_BYTES)
+ size = (
+ TILES_HORIZONTAL * DS_TILE_SIZE,
+ math.ceil(tile_count / TILES_HORIZONTAL) * DS_TILE_SIZE,
+ )
+ img = Image.new(mode="RGB", size=size)
+
+ for tile in range(tile_count):
+ chunk_idx = tile * TILE_BYTES
+ chunk = data[chunk_idx:chunk_idx+TILE_BYTES]
+ tile_offset = (
+ tile % TILES_HORIZONTAL,
+ tile // TILES_HORIZONTAL,
+ )
+ convert_chunk(img, chunk, [x * DS_TILE_SIZE for x in tile_offset])
+
+ output = io.BytesIO()
+ img.save(output, format='PNG')
+ return output.getvalue()
+
+def convert_file(input_filename, output_filename):
+ with open(input_filename, 'rb') as input_file:
+ content = input_file.read()
+ output = pc2png(content)
+ with open(output_filename, 'wb+') as output_file:
+ output_file.write(output)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ del sys.argv[0]
+ for input_filename in sys.argv:
+ output_filename = re.sub('.bin$', '.png', input_filename)
+ if not output_filename.endswith('.png'):
+ output_filename += '.png'
+ convert_file(input_filename, output_filename)
+
diff --git a/experiments/conv/requirements.txt b/experiments/conv/requirements.txt
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+++ b/experiments/conv/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pillow==10.4.0