In my last post we took on the .RES Container File format from Nova Logic. In that post I mentioned that there was a 2^nd variant of the format that we see with “F-22 Lightning II” (1996) from Nova Logic. While working on the original format we found with “Comanche 3”, I took a quick peek and saw this version is quite similar, but there are some notable differences. In this post we will take a deeper look at this other variant and see if we can figure it out fully as well.

It all started so innocently. I’ve been away from the scene for a while so I was catching up on some chat history on one of the modding/gaming servers on Discord that I’m on and I stumbled across the following.

Well we can’t have that now, can we? I’ll take that as a sign for me to get back into things. I mean, how hard can it be? Only one way to find out, let’s dig in!