Identify says...

Questions and postings pertaining to the usage of ImageMagick regardless of the interface. This includes the command-line utilities, as well as the C and C++ APIs. Usage questions are like "How do I use ImageMagick to create drop shadows?".
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identify: no decode delegate for this image format 'beta' @ constitute.c/ReadImage/503

I guess that means it doesn't know the file type?

Is there somewhere that explains the results it gives?
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what is your exact command?

did you provide an image with a suffix?

identify logo.png

or

identify -verbose logo.png


also see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#identify
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The suffix is .data, because it's a raw data block. I removed the data suffix from the file name.

The command I used was 'identify beta'

I just tried using the -verbose command and got the same thing, with and without the suffix.

Here is the file I'm using - http://www.shadowbaneemulator.com/RevEn ... 06030.data
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Identify can identify the characteristics of more than 100 different image formats. Your file does not appear to be in a format that ImageMagick can grok. It doesn't even appear to be an image.
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Well, we're trying to reverse engineer these files. You can check the thread here if you want, to see whether I'm off base for trying to use ImageMagick or not. I know the file is able to be loaded in photoshop as a .RAW after removing the first 26 bytes.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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there are many 'raw' formats.

type

convert -list format

look and see how many raw formats there are!

Do you know which one it corresponds to? If so, remove the header and supply the proper suffix.

Best I can suggest. I am not an expert on raw formats.
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I'll try that.

Here's a condensed version of the thread btw.
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I would search for and look at the various 'raw' reading tools such as dcraw. there are probably other. do a google search and you will likely find others. IM relies upon such tools, but you may have better luck using those tools directly.
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