Sarc Library

Modern SEAD/SEPD archive reader written in managed C#

Usage

Reading a Sarc File

byte[] data = File.ReadAllBytes("content/Pack/Bootup.pack");
Sarc sarc = Sarc.FromBinary(data);

Writing a Sarc File

/* ... */

using MemoryStream ms = new();
sarc.Write(ms);

Benchmarks

Function	Elapsed	Allocated
Read TitleBG (143MB, LE)	12.12 us	64.62 KB
Read TitleBG (75MB, BE)	12.04 us	64.73 KB
Write TitleBG (143MB, LE)	12.39 ms	12 B
Write TitleBG (75MB, BE)	6.59 ms	1 B
Read TitleBG (Immutable) (143MB, LE)	16.61 ns	-
Read TitleBG (Immutable) (75MB, BE)	16.27 ns	-

Install

NuGet

Install-Package SarcLibrary

Build From Source

git clone https://github.com/EPD-Libraries/SarcLibrary.git
dotnet build SarcLibrary

Special thanks to Léo Lam for his extensive research on EPD file formats.