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

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.

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.

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