GCA

File Format
Name	GCA
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving GCA
Extension(s)	.gca
MIME Type(s)	application/x-gca-compressed
Released	2000

GCA is an archiving format developed in 2000 by Japanese programmer Shin-ichi Tsuruta. It is mostly used in compressing characters from the M.U.G.E.N game engine. It is optimized for compression ratio for binary files. DGCA was released later as a successor to it.

Identification

GCA files start with ASCII "GCAX".

Links

• Wikipedia article: M.U.G.E.N
• GCA website (archived, Japanese)