Z file

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.z files are a type of compressed archive in Hey! Pikmin.

In Hey! Pikmin these are LZ files, and are Huffman encoded with a 4 byte alignment.

Tools

Use the Yoshi's New Island decompress BMS script with QuickBMS.

Alternatively, for recompression, use the pinned script in the Hocotate Hacker Discord server's #hey-pikmin channel.