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

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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 in this thread of 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.

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 : ?
 0001 : ?
 0002 : font file (see below)
 0003 : ?
 0004 : ?
 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

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This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion.
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