Been doing some tile hunting in Magic Knight Rayearth and, well, this isn't right but it sure is pretty! awoo.space/media/TvGZlxs94r8pS

I haven't been able to grab the tile out of the game yet, but I did extract this from a RAM dump. Looks like the portraits are compressed on-disc and in RAM, and only decompressed into the VDP RAM when displayed. awoo.space/media/5C_Yz7zQczabp

I have a decent guess what the compression scheme is, but it's not playing as nicely with me as Lunar's compression is. Maybe my guess is wrong.

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