Bravely Default: For the Sequel/Notes

The following article is a Notes Page for Bravely Default: For the Sequel.

Some text is stored in a concatenated archive called crowd.fs. There is an accompanying file called index.fs that contains the file names, offsets, and lengths of the files in crowd.fs.

index.fs is formatted as

• 4 bytes - start of next file header
• 4 bytes - absolute offset in crowd.fs for file
• 4 bytes - length of file
• 4 bytes - unknown purpose
• mixed lengths - filename in UTF8

File headers in actual text files

(.subtitles, .btb, .tbl, or individual files within crowd.fs files)

• 16 bytes of unknown meaning
• 4 bytes - relative pointer to first text block, which normally contains names, I think
• 4 bytes - length of name text block
• 4 bytes - relative pointer to script text block
• 4 bytes - length of script text block

Japanese text is UTF-16 LE, other languages are UTF-8.