It's been some slow days so i figured out I'll write up a little something.
This is one of my personal favourite games.
Game consists of PMF movies / pa.arc / pami.arc
table files are pa.bin / pami.bin
the interesting data is inside pa.arc
The pa/pami.bin table consists of 4 parts:
- PAA table header
- Address table #1 (filename position + file length)
- Address table #2 (Start address)
- Filename table (filenames, duh)
Quote (pa.bin/pami.bin PAA header)
0x00: File signature (PAA)
0x04: Blank
0x08: Filecount (in hex)
0x0C: Header Size
0x10: Start address of start address table
Quote (Address table #1)
table starts at 0x20:
each entry is 16 bytes wide, but only the first 8 are needed.
first 4 bytes are Filename position, second 4 are file length.
the remaining 8 are unknown to me since they werent needed for writing modifications, i would advice to not touch them to maintain file functionality.
Quote (Address table #2)
this table starts from the address designated at 0x10 in the file header,
and continues as far as there are entries defined at 0x08 in the file header.
each entry is 4 bytes wide, so the size of this table is the value defined at 0x08 x 4 bytes
Quote (Filename table)
this table is followed by the start address table and consists of filenames only.
the filenames contain the full folder path of the file, for example: sound/audio/ebgmwoodsatmosphere.at3
the filenames are aligned by 16-bytes.
I'll do a writeup of the files inside once i get little less lazy.
