Area file corruption.

[Duality]

I have an area file that wont open in NI OR DLTCEP. NI returns some sort of null and DLTCEP just doesn't like it.

And it's NOT null.... There's a whole bunch of information in it that I need to edit. But I have didn't make the area originally, so I can't recreate it either.

I thought maybe the download was corrupted, so I re-downloaded it, but no luck.

 

Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?

 

The file is part of the planarsphere mod, called arpsq2. I can upload it somewhere if anyone wants to take a look at it.

 

Any help would be appreciated because at the moment I am going to be reduced to editing the datafork, and that sucks.

[Avenger]

What does dltcep say?

[Duality]

I fixed it.

The "rest on spawn" offset was referencing past the end of the file, thus NI thought it was null.

2 hours of nasty hex editing later, and it worked fine.

If you want I can check again what DLTCEP said.

[Avenger]

Nah, no need, it wouldn't load the area.

Though it is trivial to change it to report a fixable error and load the file