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		<title>Hidden resources in Microsoft Game Room</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: In the latest title update, the Star Wars Clone Trooper image has been removed from common_d9.rkv. The icons and banners remain the same. I happened to look in the Game Room directory and see a big resource file earlier today. I figured that there might be some images in it that could give clues [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Update:</strong> In the latest title update, the Star Wars Clone Trooper image has been removed from common_d9.rkv. The icons and banners remain the same.</p>
<p>I happened to look in the Game Room directory and see a big resource file earlier today. I figured that there might be some images in it that could give clues about future content, and there was!</p>
<p>First I checked for PNG headers files using a hex editor, then I used <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228165/how-can-i-extract-the-jpg-png-components-of-an-hpi-file/228259#228259">this Perl script</a> to extract them.</p>
<p>In the image below, you can see that it contains a number of unused achievement icons (is that one with Pac-Man, Quick Man, and Air Man an achievement for “extra mans”?), new content pack banners, and strangely a picture of Star Wars clone troopers. Maybe that’ll be used to announce the original Atari Star Wars arcade game.</p>
<p>Check it out: (click for full size)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.techknight.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GameRoom_HiddenResources.png"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="GameRoom_HiddenResources" border="0" alt="GameRoom_HiddenResources" src="http://www.techknight.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GameRoom_HiddenResources_thumb.png" width="554" height="1236" /></a></p>
<p>I’ll update if I dig anything else out of C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Game Room\common_d9.rkv.</p>
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