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D.A.R.T (Damaged Archive Repair Tool) is a community-developed tool designed to handle corrupted or "cleverly damaged" archives. In the context of simulation games, some mod authors modify file headers or remove specific entries to make the archive unreadable by standard programs like WinRAR or 7-Zip. While these "damaged" files still work within the game, they cannot be opened for editing without a repair tool like D.A.R.T.

The first 30–50 bytes of a ZIP file contain the "End of Central Directory" (EOCD) record. If this is damaged, most tools can't even open the file. DART scans the entire file to locate internal EOCD signatures (PK\005\006), effectively rebuilding the map of the archive.