EF2000 .map files

[mikew]

There are 2 large (569kB) files which on first glance in a hex editor look like ordinary level files 'gone wrong'

newworld_map.PNG (755.29 KiB) Viewed 138 times

..but if the bytes per row is adjusted to 256, the second part of the file looks like this:

newworld_map2.PNG (1013.94 KiB) Viewed 138 times

So, this may be a moving map system with the first part of the file acting as index to the second.
...and their names also hint at that:
lev\norway.map
lev\newworld.map

A pity there's only two of them.

[mikew]

...and slightly related:
lev\world.4ev
lev\world.4e2
lev\clouds.4e2
lev\clouds.4ev

I don't think there's much in them, but an experiment with the 400x400 tile system maybe.

[Krishty]

Oh wow this is so amazing! Can’t wait to decode it. We have moving maps in EF2000 and a tiled moving map in F22, so it can’t be that hard implementing it, right? 😁

World is known and IIRC I can’t load it because one file is missing. I need to check which one it is …