Wii Virtual Console 'CCF' archiver/extractor suite
by paulguy/aeduo (paulguy one one nine at gmail dot com) released under Public
Domain, but I ask that you give credit if you use any of the code.
The repository contains these files:
README - this readme
ccfex.c - CCF extractor source
ccfarc.c - CCF archiver source
dotnet - Visual Studio 2019 solution/project files
This program should compile easily on any system, since all it uses is standard C
libraries and zlib (and even zlib can be replaced, see below).
The command should be something like:
gcc -lz -o ccfex ccfex.c
In Windows/mingw32, -lz should go at the end, but it doesn't matter where it goes
in Linux.
Sometimes on Windows/mingw32, zlib doesn't get found right away, because of the
default installation prefix for zlib of /usr/local, so you'll need to do
something like:
gcc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -o ccfex.exe ccfex.c -lz
ANYWAY, now how to use it. Should be similar on both systems, from the command
line you can do something like:
ccfex ccffile.ccf
to extract a ccf file. Or:
ccfarc file1.dat file2.rom file3.arc file4.smc
to store those files to out.ccf.
If you're using a file manager, you should be able to just drag the files in to
the executable and have it act on them just the same.
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This new (2021) version by libertyernie makes a few changes:
* Filenames in the header no longer have extra data written after their null
terminator
* Padding to 32 bytes (the default block size) is no longer performed on the
last file in the archive
* `uint32_t` type used when appropriate
* `ccfarcraw` added, a variant of `ccfarc` which does not attempt to perform
any LZ77 compression (necessary for Virtual Console `misc.ccf`) - just
compile ccfarc.c with preprocessor definition `CCF_ARCHIVE_UNCOMPRESSED`
* Visual Studio 2019 solution added
* `ccfarc` and `ccfex` can now be compiled with C++/CLI, replacing zlib
with .NET Framework 4.7.2's DeflateStream and custom calculation of the
checksum (this can simplify setup of the build environment on Windows, at
the cost of adding a dependency on .NET)
Note that these tools are only designed to run in a little-endian environment
(they won't work properly on a Wii, for example).