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title: "Game Data (.dat)"
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Compressed game data.

I recommend reading the ["SqPack" page](https://xiv.dev/data-files/sqpack) on xiv.dev.

# Alternative Implementations

* [xivModdingFramework (C#)](https://github.com/TexTools/xivModdingFramework/blob/master/xivModdingFramework/SqPack/FileTypes/Dat.cs)
* [Lumina (C#)](https://github.com/NotAdam/Lumina/blob/master/src/Lumina/Data/SqPackStream.cs)
* [Physis (Rust)](https://github.com/redstrate/physis/blob/main/src/gamedata.rs)