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	???	A big unknown data, seems really important
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?)

At the moment, I found that this file contains pointers and texts of the menu, and it is now my focus. The RAM Index of this data is 0x801D0C00.

The data starts with a PointerCount, following by the pointers: Each pointer target a specific place in the file, and starts with 0x801D.

After this list of pointers, we have some short texts, ended each time by the \0 byte.

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!