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Some overcomplex creations fail to decode.

I'm not sure of the exact reason for this. It fails during the gzip decompression.

I've heard that this could be because Spore doesn't save all the required data in the PNG file, for creations that are well beyond the complexity limits. Therefore, it would not be possible to decode, as the data isn't even present in the PNG file.

More information is needed, before we can figure out how to fix this issue, or if it's even possible.

So I've been trying to decode a bunch of creations and some creations (which aren't actually overcomplex AFAIK) don't seem to decode properly. The program crashes and also seems to encounter less data than it expects. For example, this captain I made (and shared on the Sporepedia) won't decode: