[Question] Decompress Replay without Header information

[koin612]

Hey scopatz,

if the first 0x44 bytes are all 0 and so no header information is avaiable, do you think it's possible to decompress the replay? if so how?

thanks!

[scopatz]

Hi @koin612 - that seems like the files is not well formed. Is this for a specific file or all files you are seeing?

[koin612]

It is for all files. Specially for the TempReplay file the game creates while playing. The goal is to read the hero spells like grubby has in his Overlay. I found a way doing this via memory reading, but I'd like to avoid memory reading :) so what I've found is that wc3 has a buffer for the data and writes it to TempReplay but missing the header. I'd like to parse this file to visualize the hero spells the player has choosen.

[scopatz]

That is interesting. There is probably a way to skip reading the header information if it is not important. You would want to change this function to skip reading in the header: https://github.com/scopatz/w3g/blob/master/w3g.py#L2219

PRs very welcome!