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Scene files

TODO

Special Sequences

%N - New line

%K - wait for keypress

%P - pagebreak

%O - ??? %K%O in CO6_04

%p - appears right before decision blocks.

%V - ???

%LC - Align to center

%LR - Align to right

%TS[3 digits][text]%TE - links text to TIPS

%FS[text]%FE - text fades in as 1 block, instead of letter-by-letter

%C[4 hex digits] - color

%T030 - delay? WARNING: On pc it has %T[\d\d] (2 digits) format, but on psp it needs to have 3 digits!

%X070 - Fixed offset from line start (also 010, 050 in game texts)

%XS[2 digits], %XE - %XS sets fixed character width. %XE resets it.

%n - ??? (in BOOT.BIN)

%S - ??? (in BOOT.BIN) (usually %n%S or %N%S)

BOOT.BIN

To disasm BOOT.BIN with prxtool: tools/prxtool -n tools/psp-NID-Prometheus.xml -o boot-disasm.txt -w workdir/BOOT.BIN

readelf -a BOOT.BIN info about elf structure

Text occurrences:

Don't forget to add/subtract A0 to table values, which is an elf header size

table - text locations

12bb8c: - 12116c:1243d0(123fb0 jap) (approx) - section with text; 0x12144c - scrolling menu text, delimited by new lines (%N), ends at 0x12871c. 136760:136aa0 - 12483с:128620 136ac0: sample text block, used in settings

137528:141520 - large empty area. Test if this can be used as an scratchpad/area for long strings.

The engine has a limit of 480 simultaneous characters on the scene, which causes crashes when the buffer is overflown. The workaround is to insert more %K%P sequences to the text.

init.bin

file has many(all?) same strings as the pc version of init.bin + all the TIPS + the chronology + other stuff

tables:
1140:1d38 - covers "names/init" section
7610:7f78 - TIPS
90dc:ac98 - Chronology

We skip all these sections:

    if 0x47f0 <= table_offs < 0x5350: continue
    if 0x7f90 <= table_offs < 0x871c: continue
    if 0x7520 <= table_offs < 0x7610: continue

ba68:dc40 names and init.txt content. This also is the first text occurrence in file.
dc40: - file names(don't modify!)
12b57:12ca3 - song-related stuff
12ca3:130ea - (Endings?)
130ea: - a strange untranstlated text block. Strings start with イラスト：左 (GoogTransl: 'Illustration:Left')
134de: - Song lyrics
14c30:2464c - Tips. They are ordered differently to the pc version.
26be8: - Chronology start

BTW, analyzing this file revealed that developers actually transliterated characters' names this way:

うしろのしょうめんのぼく／Uni
鏡の中のワタシ／Cocoro
天より墜ちたオレ／Satoru

(proof: 0x260a0 in init.bin)

Fonts

The game uses FONT00 (lzss-compressed .FOP), found in etc.afs, as a main font.

See folder text/font/ for scripts.

Game engine adds additional space between glyphs in scene textxs. This has been fixed (additional spacing removed) by one of the patches in boot-patches.asm.

Glyph 751 is a whitespace.

GIM format

Graphics format found in some T2P files after they are decompressed. Can be converted to png with GimConv (Proprietary Sony tool, Google it).

TIM2 format

Graphics format found in some T2P files after they are decompressed.

Useful links

HOME menu language: http://bbs.blacklabel-translations.com/showthread.php?tid=35&pid=84

TIM2 format: http://wiki.vg-resource.com/wiki/TIM2