This is a project to describe the file formats used in certain games developed by Zipper Interactive™:
- the Recoil™ game (1999)
- the MechWarrior 3™ base game (1999)
- the MechWarrior 3 Pirate's Moon™ expansion (1999)
- the Crimson Skies™ game (2000)
Zipper Interactive™ was trademark or registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. Other trademarks belong to the respective rightsholders.
The main focus is MechWarrior 3.
This documentation can be used as a whitepaper for a clean room implementation to extract most MechWarrior 3 assets, or for reference for existing projects. Note that this project discusses the file structures, and not necessarily the contents of the files.
This project is uses mdBook to render the Markdown files to a website/HTML.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (LICENSE or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).