ticfile

A library for reading and writing TIC-80 .tic cartridge files.

See https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/.tic-File-Format for the file format description.

Installation

pip install ticfile

Usage

from ticfile import TICFile, ChunkType

duck_jam = TICFile.open("duckjam.tic")
code_chunks = [chunk for chunk in duck_jam.chunks if chunk.type == ChunkType.CODE]
code_lines = code_chunks[0].data.decode("ascii").split("\n")
print(code_lines[0])

API

The ticfile module provides the following definitions:

TICFile

Represents a complete .tic file.

Class methods

• TICFile(chunks) - construct a TICFile from a list of Chunk objects
• TICFile.open(filename) - open a TICFile from the given filename
• TICFile.from_file(f) - open a TICFile from the given file handle

Instance methods / attributes

• chunks - the list of Chunk objects making up this file
• save(filename) - write this file to the given filename

ChunkType

An enum defining the available chunk types:

ChunkType.TILES = 1
ChunkType.SPRITES = 2
ChunkType.MAP = 4
ChunkType.CODE = 5
ChunkType.FLAGS = 6
ChunkType.SAMPLES = 9
ChunkType.WAVEFORM = 10
ChunkType.PALETTE = 12
ChunkType.MUSIC = 14
ChunkType.PATTERNS = 15
ChunkType.DEFAULT = 17
ChunkType.SCREEN = 18
ChunkType.BINARY = 19
ChunkType.COVER_DEP = 3
ChunkType.PATTERNS_DEP = 13
ChunkType.CODE_ZIP = 16

Chunk

Represents an individual chunk within a .tic file.

Class methods

• Chunk(chunk_type, bank, data) - construct a Chunk object ** chunk_type - one of the enum values defined in ChunkType ** bank - the bank number (0..7) for this chunk ** data - the binary data of this chunk, excluding the header, as a bytes object

Instance methods / attributes

• type - the type of this chunk, given as one of the enum values defined in ChunkType
• bank - the bank number (0..7) for this chunk
• data - the binary data of this chunk, excluding the header, as a bytes object
• write(f) - write this chunk to the given file handle