Rare De-Compressor v1.0 (Console)

This is a cute little app that will compress and decompress into the two most common and annoying compression formats used by Rare on its N64 games.  That covers most of its games, spanning from Goldeneye to Jet Force Gemini.

You can simply drag & drop your file onto the program, or type its name in.  If the file was compressed into either 1172 or 1173, it will automatically decompress it to a .bin file.  If it wasn't, you will have the option of choosing which type to compress it to.
  1172 was used on many earlier games, including Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie.
  1173 was only used on the last Rare titles, starting with Perfect Dark.

The file will be compressed into either a .1172 or .1173 file, and pop up some stats on how well it compressed.  Have fun!


Note:  Blast Corps uses straight gzip, not covered in this version of the utility.  If you really need to decompress those, you can extract the binaries and change the extensions to .gz