STATUS.EMI

This document is still being researched and is not yet complete. This means that some information could be erroneous or simply missing.

Table of content:

Introduction

This file represent all the Status Menu data, when you press Square in game.

The file contains 8 data:

Index	Size	Type	Description
1	117578	Executable	Executable of the current game mode `StatusMenu`
2	32768	Image	Texture of the menu tiles
3	32768	Image	Texture of the menu backgrounds
4	512	Palette	Palette for the menu tiles and backgrounds
5	512	Palette	Palette for the menu tiles and backgrounds (bis)
6	3616	Audio Samples (Header)	Audio samples header (menu buttons sounds?)
7	44	???	Small unknown file, maybe some pointers inside
8	64560	Audio Samples (Binary)	Audio samples binary (menu buttons sounds?)

The RAM Index of this data is 0x801D0C00.

This data is actually the “StatusMenu” game mode executable. This is MIPS code, and there are interactions with the base executable SLES_.......

This executable contains all the menu behavior.

EDIT: 2025/04/06

The function FUN_8014E3D4 do something with palettes! Need to know what ~

This texture is located at the second index of the STATUS.EMI file, and contains tiles of:

The texture has a width of 128 pixel, and is encoded in 4bpp.

For the characters portraits, they are tiles of 40x48. They use the following palette in file like this:

Information

Looks like the tiles are aligned in rows of 256 x 40 pixels

They are the forth and fifth data of the STATUS.EMI: They contain characters portraits and menu colors.

Still a lot to do in this file!