Cyclemania Video
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Cyclemania is a 1994 DOS game published by Accolade. It's a motorcycle racing game with a full motion video backdrop. Video in the game is handled with 4 files per animation:
- .COL file: color palette, always 776 bytes (32-bit size and some other 32-bit number followed by 256 RGB triplets)
- .FRM file: first frame data (32-bit size followed by RLE data)
- .HED file: header data (32-bit number of frames, 16-bit width and height, 32-bit method ID, optionally followed by 32-bit sizes of frames in .VID file)
- .VID file: subsequent RLE-compressed frames
Since this is from the same company as Soul Hunt VID it employs the same RLE format: 00xxxxxx means copy following 0-63 bytes from the stream, 01xxxxxx means repeating the following pixel 0-63 times, and 1xxxxxxx means skip 0-127 pixels.