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I know TB knows how the TextX.dat files are decoded(or at least partially knows).
So does he (or anyone else) care to elaborate the fileformat? I'd really like to know

Well I do now.
First, XOR EF (like missions)
Then it's a standard ILBM file with an embedded and wrong palette, it has bad entries, just use the standard palette instead.
There is no water animation, but there is stupid RLE without a specification so it's hard to decode.

Those are ILBM / IFF fileformat judging from header and chunk names.. Thats Amiga format that stores palettes, bitmaps and animation.

Do you mean it's XORed entirely or only certain chunks? Cos chunk names are perfectly readable without XORing.... :roll:

All, I can't read any of it without xoring, which files are you using? The ones from TPR right? (TSK might be different)

I could read both TSK and TPR without any XORing, I just open them in edit.com and I see chunk names and etc.. all normal. btw, TSK and TPR tilesets are very similar with few new tiles, so that could help in decoding.. Although I find it rather unnecessary since tileset can be captured from KaM and I already figured out and captured animation sequences (forgot to upload them yet)

Strange I had to xor them..

Okay, I did reverted my KaM to original state and text#.dat files are indeed XORed. I'm sorry for mistaking..

Netherless, while XORed and renamed to *.iff ACDSee opens them as 256color static images