FF8

Contents

History

Final Fantasy VIII came after the mega hit Final Fantasy VII, it in itself was a very successful game release for Square. For more on the history of Final Fantasy VIII read here. The Game Engine

• Final Fantasy VIII's Engine

Engine constants

• Array of Battle files

Details of the Game

• Final Fantasy VIII's Kernel
• Game variables used in scripting
• World map camera
• Battle encounters list
• String Encoding

Media Formats

• Final Fantasy VIII PS1 media information.
• Final Fantasy VIII PC media information.
• Final Fantasy VIII Save data

File Formats

Movie Files

• [PAK] Movie Archives

Sound Files

• [FMT] Sound Archives

Battle files

• [X] Battle Fields
• [DAT] Battle Models
• Scene.out Battle encounter data
• r0win.dat Winning sequence
• b0wave.dat Core battle data (Textures+Music+Font)
• a9btlfnt.bft Battle Font (Redirect to TDW)
• .mag files - MAG files

Field files

• Opcodes Field script opcodes
• [MCH] Field Character Models
• [ONE] Field Character Models Container
• [MIM] Field Background Image Data
• [MAP] Field Background Tile Data
• [JSM] Field Scripts
• [SYM] Field Script names (unused)
• [MSD] Field Dialogs
• [INF] Field Gateways
• [ID] Field Walkmesh (same format as FF7)
• [CA] Field Camera
• [TDW] Extra font
• [MSK] Movie cam (?)
• [RAT & [MRT]] Battle related
• [PMD] Particle Info
• [PMP] Particle Image Data
• [PVP] Unknown (often 0x0c000000, sometimes 0x0a000000 or 0x0b000000)
• [SFX] Indexes to Sound Effects (?)

World map files

• music0.obj
• music1.obj
• music2.obj
• music3.obj
• music4.obj
• music5.obj
• rail.obj
• texl.obj
• wmset.obj
• wmsetXX.obj
• wmx.obj
• chara.one

Main

• wm2field.tbl
• kernel.bin
• harata.cnf
• init.out
• namedic.bin

Menu

• *.sp1/*.sp2
• mngrphd.bin
• mngrp.bin
• tkmnmes*.bin
• mag*.tex
• mngrp strings
• mngrp complex strings
• m00*.bin and m00*.msg
• areames.dc1
• price.bin

Tools and Patches

• Tools and Patches