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HuVIDEO

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  • Hudson School Graduation CD ?
  • Power Golf 2 - Golfer / パワーゴルフ2 ゴルファー (HCD4056)
  • John Madden Duo CD Football (TGXCD1045)
  • Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna HuVIDEO CD / 銀河お嬢様伝説ユナ (HCD5078)
  • Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy / 空想科学世界ガリバーボーイ (HCD5076)

FIXME research history / Beyond shadow gate code / Rich's doc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRNw9ccJHS4

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335322903_A_Tale_of_Two_CDs_Archaeological_Analysis_of_Full-Motion_Video_Formats_in_Two_PC_EngineTurboGrafx-16_Games

Description

Offset Size (bytes) Description
0 16 Signature
⚬ “HuVIDEO ” for Power Golf 2 and John Madden
⚬ “HuVideo\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0” for Yuna and Gulliver Boy
16 2 Video frame count
18 2 Width (in pixels)
20 2 Height (in pixels)
22 1 Flag (unused)
23 1 VRAM format (0: background tiles, 1: sprites)
24 2 ADPCM buffer length
26 6 Unknown

Power Golf 2

The next 32 bytes following the header contains the palette of the video. The first frame is located 8 sectors away from the header. Frames are stored sequentially. There's no ADPCM and all frames use the palette. All videos have the same size which is 128 by 128 pixels.

Sector Description
00 header + palette
01 skip
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09 frame #0
0a
0b
0c
0d frame #1
0e
0f
10

John Madden Duo CD Football

Yuna HuVIDEO CD / Gulliver Boy

FIXME some examples (non spoiler ones)

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