orakio_rob wrote:Just to make it very clear: on our side, we are all very, very big PS lovers. I know some people are very protective of their romhacking work, and we understand it, but we are different to this regard. We're doing this because we really love Phantasy Star, and so we want as much content as possible to be extracted, changed, updated and so forth. We are fans, so we're all on the same boat ^_^
I love reading that
I confess I had (and still have) a massive use of your descompressador and it helped me a lot. I'll be forever grateful to you. You can consider me as a foreign fellow, I totally agree with all you said and I'm glad to see this spirit on the net (it is not so often in the game hacking community from the little I know).
Thanks for the tip about the spacing. Did you find some other values in the SLPM file ?
Is text in the SLPM coded the same way as in the DAT files ? Is this text special or is it classic ingame test ?
I'm trying to figure what kind of data is stored on it, why it has different extension.
I've posted on this topic some pages ago sprites from PSG2. I got them via texmod. Others sheet I got this way are totally similar to those you got. So I think those sprites must be coded exactly this way somewhere in the files.
Two things though :
- the sheet I posted was made assembling several sheets
- I believe I saved the sheets as 32bits, whereas graphics in the game are stored with format 8bits + palette. I'll try to recover the palette data, so we'll have large chunk of datas to look for, and so bigger chances to find them.
This being said, if the descompressador fails on some parts of the DAT, it could explain everything. I'll try to have a look on it, but I must first read the portuguese commented source, and I may have troubles understanding. Would you mind if I sometimes ask for a translation (I saw xrick is portuguese, maybe you can help too?) ? It may not be necessary that said...
Something that would be intersting to compute is the ratio of the compressed data the descompressador achieves to treat over the total size of the DAT file.
I wish I have so much more free time
Give me another life please
[I'd like to know why all smileys I write in a thread vanishes after I preview it...]