Welcome to Data Crystal's new home! Data Crystal is now part of the TCRF family (sort of).
The wiki has recently moved; please report any issues in Discord. Pardon the dust.

Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 17: Phantasy Star generation:2: Difference between revisions

From Data Crystal
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(→‎Utilities: Added info for Tryphon)
Line 13: Line 13:
{{Moreinfo wikipedia|page=Phantasy_Star_Generation_2}}
{{Moreinfo wikipedia|page=Phantasy_Star_Generation_2}}
==Utilities==
==Utilities==
*CUE has released a decompressor, and various converters (the script inserter does fail sometimes), downloadable in this thread of pscave.net board. Sources are not available.
*CUE has released a decompressor, and various converters (the script inserter does fail sometimes), downloadable at [http://www.pscave.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3165&start=15#p54028 this thread] on pscave.net board. Sources are not available.


*RodolfoRG has released a decompressor, downloadable here, sources included, and wrote a document (in portuguese) describing the compression.
*RodolfoRG has released a decompressor, downloadable at [http://www.gazetadealgol.com.br/_media/diversos/downloads/romhacking-descompressor-cm.c.zip], sources included, and a document (in portuguese) describing the compression.


==Compression==
==Compression==

Revision as of 21:36, 9 April 2013

More non-ROM hacking specific information can be found at Wikipedia's Phantasy_Star_Generation_2 article.

Utilities

  • CUE has released a decompressor, and various converters (the script inserter does fail sometimes), downloadable at this thread on pscave.net board. Sources are not available.
  • RodolfoRG has released a decompressor, downloadable at [1], sources included, and a document (in portuguese) describing the compression.

Compression

Files contents

Each DAT file is an archive. Bytes 0 to 3 is the nb_of_files contained, then each sequence of 4 bytes, multiplied by $800, is the offset to the begining of the file. They will be considered as directories in the following listing. Most of them are LZR-compressed.

 +MODULE
Phantasy Star Generation: 2
Game PHANTASY STAR GENERATION: 2
Developer 3D Ages
Release Dates
Versions (JP) SLPM-62553
Discs 1x CDROM
CDVDSTM.IRX EZMIDI.IRX IOPRP271.IMG LIBSD.IRX MCMAN.IRX MCSERV.IRX MODHSYN.IRX MODMIDI.IRX PADMAN.IRX SDRDRV.IRX SIO2MAN.IRX MSIS_IOP.IRX

Unchecked. Likely drivers or external libs. MSIS may be the Genesis emulator running the original version of the game.

 +MAPDATA.DAT

331 files :

 0000 : ? (seems structures of 16 bytes length)
 0001 : archive file (same structure as DAT files)
0000 : palettes (11 palettes × 256 colors × 4 bytes RGBA) (todo : dump them) 0001 - 0141 : graphics files (party sprites) (todo: dump them)
 0002 : font file (see below)
 0003 : ? (seems to be a copy of the font palette, then zeroes)
 0004 : ? (palette with mostly white colors with different alphas, then zeroes)
 0005 - 0074 : graphics files
 0075 : map file (Motavia)
 0076 - 0080 : graphics files (Motavia tiles)
 0081 : map file (Paseo)
 0082 - 0085 : graphics files (Paseo tiles)
 0086 : graphics file (unused)
 0087 : map file (Arimaya)
 0088 - 0091 : graphics file (Arimaya tiles)
 0092 : map file (Oputano)
 0093 - 0096 : graphics file (Oputano tiles)
 +EVENT.DAT
 +BTLDAT.DAT
 +BTLSYS.DAT
 +SOUND.DAT
 +MONDAT.DAT
 SYSTEM.CNF

Unchecked

 SLPM_625.53

Main executable, see memory map.

Memory Map

So very stubbly.
This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion.
Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article?