Kosinski compression

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The Kosinski compression format, discovered by Brett Kosinski, is used in Sonic games for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive.

Kosinski compression is used to compress the following data types:

It's a modified version of the LVSS algorithm. A detailed explanation of the compression format can be found here.