Mother 3/PSI data

PSI data table
Game	MOTHER 3
Start Address	0xE1908
End Address	0xE5107
# of Entries	256 (0x100), only 100 used
Entry Length	56 bytes (0x38)
Total Length	36864 bytes (0x3800)
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Overview

The PSI data table contains parameters for each PSI move in the game. The ordering is consistent with the game's internal PSI names listing.

Format

Each entry in the table uses 144 bytes.

Field listing

• 00-03 (04) = Unclassified data
• 04-04 (01) = [ A ] Type
• 05-0B (07) = Unclassified data
• 0C-0D (02) = [ B ] PP cost
• 0E-17 (0A) = Unclassified data
• 18-18 (01) = [ C ] Target
• 19-1D (05) = Unclassified data
• 1E-1F (02) = [ D ] Low amount
• 20-21 (02) = [ E ] High amount
• 22-2E (0D) = Unclassified data
• 2F-2F (01) = [ F ] Animation 1
• 30-30 (01) = [ G ] Animation 2
• 31-37 (07) = Unclassified data

Table view

       00   01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   0A   0B   0C   0D   0E   0F
    +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00  | [        ?        ] [ A] [                ?               ] [   B   ] [   ?  ->
10  | <-                  ?                 ] [ C] [           ?          ] [   D   ]
20  | [   E   ] [                               ?                              ] [ F]
30  | [ G] [                ?               ]

Type

The type value determines in which category it is placed:

00: Offense

01: Recover

02: Assist

Target

The target value seems to affect how the ability is targeted. Known values are:

01: One party member

03: All party members

04: Healing Ω

0D: One enemy

0E: All enemies

0F: One strike

10: Two strikes

11: Three strikes

12: Four strikes

13: Multiple strikes (PK Ground)

Low/high amounts

These affect the bounds of damage or recovery for abilities based on such.

Animations

These affect which visual animations play. It is not fully known how these correspond to the battle animations entry table.