Mindjongg tileset
Mindjongg (also written MindJongg) is a Mahjong Solitaire video game, developed by Minder Technology. It is for 32-bit Windows, 1998-2006 era.
The later versions of Mindjongg have a native .IPG format for tile set graphics, and may include an editor. It's undetermined whether IPG was introduced in version 6, or version 5.
Mindjongg was originally named Shanghai 97. The versions that use IPG format are all named Mindjongg.
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Disambiguation
Minder Technology released a different Mahjong product named MJ (Network Mahjong). So, one should avoid abbreviating Mindjongg as "MJ". MJ does not appear to use IPG format. Some Mindjongg distribution filenames start with "mg" (not "mj").
Format details
An IPG file contains embedded image files in standard formats. Possible formats include BMP, GIF, JPEG, and TGA.
Identification
The IPG version used by v6.x starts with bytes 05 49 50 4b 30 31, which contains ASCII "IPK01".
The IPG version used by v7.x starts with bytes 05 00 00 00 49 00 50 00 4b 00 30 00 33 00, which contains the UTF-16-encoded string "IPK03".
Software
Mindjongg with IPG support:
- Mindjongg 6.0: Twilight 63 → Games/124/... (or at DiscMaster)
- Mindjongg 6.2 (Wayback Machine archives)
- Mindjongg 7.0 (Wayback Machine archives)
Other Mindjongg / Shanghai 97 (for reference):
- Shanghai 97 v1.0: Hot Shareware 35 → ficheros/9GAME/SH97_10.ZIP
Other:
- XnView (Has at least partial support for decoding the graphics.)
Sample files
- Mindjongg versions that support IPG include a handful of such files, though installation may be needed.
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