Project Overview

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.

Terms and abbreviations

  • MW or MW3: MechWarrior 3, usually this means the base game and not the expansion.
  • PM: Pirate's Moon, aka. the expansion.
  • RC: Recoil.
  • CS: Crimson Skies.

License

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