Case study
AFS Volume 2.00 specification: reconstructing Tenchu archives
AFS200Tools documents the AFS Volume 2.00 archive format found in PlayStation Tenchu games. It records the big-endian header, 36-byte file entries, file table placement and a tentative filename scheme, alongside C# source for handling volumes.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Stars
- 2
- Last commit
- 2018-02-05
- Language
- C#
GitHub data as of 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Scope: Applies to AFS Volume 2.00 archives documented from Tenchu game files.
- Limits: The filename format description is speculative, and the header length is given as 40 or 42 bytes.
- License: No licence file in the repository.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{afs200tools-case,
title = {{AFS Volume 2.00 specification: reconstructing Tenchu archives}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/stedestro/AFS200Tools}},
url = {https://github.com/stedestro/AFS200Tools},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/afs200tools-case/}}
}Plain text
AFS Volume 2.00 specification: reconstructing Tenchu archives. https://github.com/stedestro/AFS200Tools (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/afs200tools-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · stedestro/AFS200Tools · Revision 7010f0d
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