Thanks for the link! Impressive work indeed. Relevant snippets > but had no idea as to how the image was compressed. It clearly wasn't compressed with any comm

Thanks for the link! Impressive work indeed. Relevant snippets > but had no idea as to how the image was compressed. It clearly wasn't compressed with any common compression algorithm. Mercifully unlike the MIPS firmware, it had at least a few strings, which is how I was able to tell it was compressed; a hex dump showed chunks of human-readable text with garbage interrupting them. > A hunch. After extensive amounts of time trying and failing to eyeball the compression algorithm from hexdumps of compressed code, and trying any decompression algorithm I could think of against it, But they eventually could break through by reverse engineering the decompression code. > Once I finally had a concise, sane description of the decompression algorithm in C, the algorithm turned out to be hilariously simple. I was also then able to figure out the origins of the compression algorithm; it's called LZSS