In the symbols.x there are a lot of functions which seem to load files.

Here a few examples:

loadFileByExtId

loadFileByExtId_LZ

loadFileByExtId_3dModel

loadFileByExtId_FlushDC_2

loadFileByExtId_Dest

and a bunch more

Can somebody explain how these functions work and which parameters they take (generally how to do that).
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Okay, let me write down what I remember on how this works (it's been a long time...)

NSMB internally loads files referenced by something I called the "Extended ID" or "ExtId" for short. Info on ExtIDs here: http://nsmbhd.net/thread/1095-no-more-sprite-set-limitation-in-mvsl/#16464

By default the game loads files into its own RAM storage that gets deleted when you exit the level.

The "Dest" variations of the function allow you to provide your own pointer to where to load the data.

The "LZ" variations LZ-uncompress the file when loading it.

Example on how to load a file here: https://github.com/Dirbaio/NSMBCR/blob/master/source/animations.cpp#L187

The "allocFromCacheTable" function is like a malloc that gets automatically freed when you exit the level.

I *think* it's the same function used by the non-Dest functions, so doing loadFileByExtId is the same as doing allocFromCacheTable+loadFileByExtId_Dest

This is all I have, if you want more details you'll have to look at the IDA DB.

Is my guess correct, that allocFromCacheTable(int size) reserves the needed ram (in this case 4096 bytes?) and loadFileByExtId_LZ_Dest(ExtId id, void* dest) writes the file with the ID ExtId - 131 to the reserved area in ram?

This results in two questions:

Why 4096? Wreckring_crew.narc is 11424 bytes big.

Am I able to fill an array with that loaded data (Kinda like a for loop that starts at (in this case) animationFile) blarg

_{I know that I'm not a programming genius}

Edit: Wow. I got a file loaded succesfully. Thank you very much! And looks like your ASM hack isn't working because the size of the alloc was to small. Anyways, thank you
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