Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 17: Phantasy Star generation:2/ROM map

The following article is a ROM map for Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 17: Phantasy Star generation:2.

This page contains a listing of files found on the game disc.

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
 |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)

11 groups of sprites : Eusis, Nei, Rudo, Amy, Hugh, Anna, Kain, Shir, Teim, Jet Scooter, Plasma Ring. Each palette from file 0000 goes to the according group. Here's the result (one row per group) :

 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)

 0192 - 0195 : Graphics files (Piata Control Tower)
 0196 - 0201 : Piata Control Tower maps

 0202 - 0205 : Graphics files (Red Dam tiles)
 0206 - 0208 : red Dam maps

 0209 - 0212 : graphics files (Yellow Dam tiles)
 0213 - 0216 : Yellow Dam maps

 0217 - 0220 : Graphics files (Blue Dam tiles)
 0221 - 0225 : Blue Dam maps

 0226 - 0229 : Graphics files (Green Dam tiles)
 0230 - 0231 : Green Dam maps

 0232 - 0234 : Graphics files (Gaira tiles)
 0235 : Gaira map

 0236 - 0238 : Graphics files (Skure tiles)
 0239 - 0241 : Skure maps

 0242 - 0243 : Graphics files (Crevice tiles)
 0244 - 0246 : Crevice maps

 0247 - 0249 : Graphics files (Esper Mansion tiles)
 0250 - 0251 : Esper Mansion maps

 0252 - 0255 : Graphics files (Menobe tiles)
 0256 - 0259 : Menobe maps

 0260 - 0263 : Graphics files (Naval tiles)
 0264 - 0268 : Naval maps

 0269 - 0272 : graphics files (Guaron tiles)
 0273 - 0289 : Guaron maps

 0290 - 0293 : Graphics files (Ikuto tiles)
 0294 - 0300 : Ikuto maps

 0301 - 0304 : graphics files (Noah tiles)
 0305 - 0306 : Noah maps

 0307 : Graphics files (NPC) + several palettes (to do : dump them)
 0308 : Graphics files (NPC) + several palettes (to do : dump them)

 0309 : unknown (maybe Motavia battle map for sea and rivers) (todo : dump as a graphic file)
 0310 : archive file (same structure as DAT files)
 | 0000 - 0007 : Graphics files (characters images in Stats menu)
 | 0008 - 0048 : Dialogs' portraits (eusis, Nei, Rudo, Amy, Hugh, Anna, Kain, Shir, Lutz, Neifirst, Darum, Teim * 2, Tyler, Motavian, Earthman, Dezorian)
 
 0311 : KMGAPACK file (archive of KMGA files, use is unknown)
 0312 : unknown (battle map ?)
 0313 : unknown (likely 2 Motavia battle maps)
 0314 : unknown (likely Dezolis battle map)
 0315 : unknown
 0316 : Graphics file (Esper Mansion NPC)
 0317 - 0324 : Graphics files
 0325 - 0326 : unknown
 0327 - 0329 : graphics files
 0330 : Rom file (Megadrive Phatasy Star II (J))

 +EVENT.DAT
 +BTLDAT.DAT
 +BTLSYS.DAT
 +SOUND.DAT
 +MONDAT.DAT

 SYSTEM.CNF

Unchecked

 SLPM_625.53

Main executable, see memory map.