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Bust A Groove Press CD (1998)

On July 16th, a user by the name of Feisar2097 dumped a press CD of Bust A Groove, containing high quality renders of the characters, about it's release in the UK and various right ups about the game. This was most likely intended for gaming journalists in Europe at the time.

Now of course, considering this is an old CD, there's gonna be some issues when opening up the files, so I'll be saving you guys the hassle of viewing everything and giving a guide of how this works. Well, to those that use Windows (I'm not a Mac user :P)

A press asset disc of Bust-A-Groove for the PlayStation.

The link to the download will be on the website provided up top and should be the first thing you see when you visit the link. Once you click download, you should have a RAR file titled B A G Press CD. Go ahead and click extract archive. Now you should have a BIN file. To view this BIN, I'd suggest using PowerISO since that's one way you can extract the content from the BIN. (Well, me mostly being familiar with this program.)

Go ahead and highlight all 6 folders in the BIN and press extract.

And, BAM! You should now see the extracted folders! Here's the issue, all the images in almost all folders (minus the Text folder) contains TIFF files, a very outdated file format that no one really uses and your photo viewing app won't support the file format. This is where you have to download another program yet again. (I know, very tedious...)

Thankfully, Irfanview supports TIFF files, so go ahead and download that program.

The program will give you this message everytime you open a TIFF file, click yes.

Now, here's something to note. There are two variations of each file, the other containing a ~0 at the end of the name. Those files are smaller, compressed images of the high quality ones and are actually JPG files.

And of course, we have the corrupted files, the ones with the TGA format. When opening up some TIFF files, it will now read as a TGA file, and you can't access the image, instead giving you a message as show in the picture below.

Now if you're like me who wants to access everything. This is what you're gonna do. Go ahead and use a Hex editor (I'm using HexEd in my case) and open up the corrupted TGA files. Our victim for this guide will be 7P~0.tga. You should see something like this.

You're looking at the raw data of the file, the offsets, hex codes, and the text on the right. Since the file doesn't start with an 18-byte TGA header like how it should (notice how it's inputted on the text) and instead, has a Macintosh resource metadata, Photoshop tags, and PICT data. All this junk data is what's causing the software to show the error message. (as shown earlier)

Looking at offset 00000210, you'll see the hex bytes FF D8 FF E0. This is where the JPEG marker begins, in other words, where the actual image is at. Deleting the junk bytes prior to FF D8 FF E0 (FF D8 being the SOI, and FF E0 being the APP0 marker.) should recover the file. To do so, highlight all the junk bytes and press back space. FF D8 should be at the start. This is how it should now look like. Click Save As and save the recovered file as a JPG.