ONSCRIPTER(6)

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, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 sarconv — the SAR archive glow-up tool 💖

okay bestie, so this is the sarconv manual page, and it lives in section 6 of the onscripter User Manual. yes, the page header says ONSCRIPTER(6) even though the star of the show is sarconv — we don't make the rules, we just vibe with them. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

sarconv — the program to convert SAR archive. that's it, that's the name. short, sweet, iconic. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

sarconv [-j] [-q quality] {src_width} {dst_width} {src_archive_file}
        {dst_archive_file}

like, look at that. five-ish things going in, magic coming out. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this manual page documents the sarconv command, briefly. not everything needs a whole essay, yk? 💁‍♀️

real talk: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program just... doesn't have a manual page. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and here we are. that's the origin story. 🫶

okay so what does sarconv actually do? it converts the SAR archive file of the visual novel games engine ONScripter into a different width or quality. it's giving "resize my whole game archive, thanks." it is genuinely useful to adjust the size of the archive file — yes, the whole file, the file gets smaller or different, it's a whole thing. and it's also useful to adjust the width of the game so you can play it on some hand-held game platform like PSP or iPod. retro gaming era representation!! 🎮

now, the widths. important. pay attention bestie:

  • src_width should be 640 or 800.
  • dst_width can be 176, 220, 320, 360, 384, 640, and etc.

that "and etc." is doing a lot of heavy lifting but we respect it. 🎀

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

a summary of options is included below. short list, high impact. 🌈

  • -j — BMP files are converted to JPEG files while keeping the filenames unchanged. so like, the format changes but the name stays exactly the same. sneaky. stealth mode. 🥷
  • -q quality — adjust JPEG quality, from 0 to 100. you want crispy? crank it. you want itty bitty file? you know what to do. 😌

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these too, they're in the same friend group:

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Ying-Chun Liu <paulliu@debian.org>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

giving credit where credit is due, periodt. 💜

Copyright © 2022 paulliu

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was sarconv from the onscripter User Manual, dated 04/14/2024 — mwah, slay, go convert some archives, no cap 💅✨🎀

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