# Reko-Btech: Crescent Hawks image and map format findings

> Reko-Btech investigates the 1988 MS-DOS game Crescent Hawks: Inception using Reko decompilation project files. Its findings describe run-length encoding in ICN and CMP images and two layout schemes for MTP map files. Following the project requires the user's own game executable and data files.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Elthial/Reko-Btech>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Elthial/Reko-Btech/blob/2b1d710b11d09be551fe297ccdef306dc19db009/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/reko-btech-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/reko-btech-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/reko-btech-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires Reko and a legally owned copy of the Crescent Hawks: Inception executable and associated data files.
- **Limits:** The MTP map structure remains a work in progress, including unidentified fields and NPC placement.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Elthial/Reko-Btech/blob/2b1d710b11d09be551fe297ccdef306dc19db009/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/Elthial/Reko-Btech/blob/2b1d710b11d09be551fe297ccdef306dc19db009/Documentation/FileEncoding.md>
3. <https://github.com/Elthial/Reko-Btech/blob/2b1d710b11d09be551fe297ccdef306dc19db009/Documentation/MapFileFormat.md>

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