mpar: Mozaïc Pack Archiver

A featureful archiver for the .pak file format, as found in the game Mozaïc, by Ingenio, a Loto-Québec subsidiary, and probably a few of their other games.

Known to work with

• Mozaïc

Build

Use Zig 0.14.

Usage

If you intend to mod the game, you will want to repack the files using our JSON metadata format that looks like this:

{
  "description": "",
  "entries": [
    {
      "name": "media\\En\\Img\\Hd\\aide_bkg_explic_EN.bmp",
      "value": 39
    },
    // ...
  ]
}

You can generate one from an existing pack using this command:

mpar l -f json Mozaic_EN_hd.pak

The description field can be freely changed, and as far as we know isn't used by the game. We highly recommend to put something there. It has a limit of 32 bytes.

The value field, every file has one, we still don't know what it is for, how it's generated and how it correlates to anything, but it seems important for the game - it's going to crash right away if you change any of these values.

The format can change at any time, so you may want to regenerate a fresh one if you upgrade this tool.