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== Important Files ==

<{| style="border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; background: rgb(0,255,0)" border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" align="center"! align="center" | PSX Version! align="center>[[Image:Gears_img_5" | PC Version|-| /INIT/KERNEL.BIN| /DATA/KERNEL/KERNEL.png]]<BIN|-|| /DATA/KERNEL/center>KERNEL2.BIN|}

== The KERNEL.BIN Archive ==

The file KERNEL.BIN archive is in [[FF7/Kernel/Low_level_libraries#BIN-GZIPGZIP_Type_Archives|BIN-GZIP format]]. It consists of 27 gziped sections concatenated together with a 6 byte header for each. This file is the same both on the PC and PSX versions. This holds all the static data and menu text for the game, with a look up table at the beginning of the section. The first 9 sections of data (i.e. The non-text related items) are in typical BIN file archive format. Sections 10-27 are [[FF7/FF TextFF_Text|FF Text files]]. The text sections have a header of pointers at the beginning of each section and point to a text block below.

{| borderclass="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" style="background: rgb(0,0,0)" align="centerwikitable"! style="background:rgb(204,204,204)" align="center" | File! style="background:rgb(204,204,204)" | Data! style="background:rgb(204,204,204)" | Offset

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 1|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Command dataCommand_data|Command data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x0006

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 2|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Attack dataAttack_data|Attack data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x0086

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 3|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/SavemapBattle_and_growth_data|SavemapBattle and growth data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x063A

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 4|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Character starting statsCharacter_starting_stats|Character starting statsInitialization data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x0F7F

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 5|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Item dataItem_data|Item data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x111B

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 6|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Weapon dataWeapon_data|Weapon data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x137A

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 7|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Armor dataArmor_data|Armor data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x1A30

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 8|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Accessory dataAccessory_data|Accessory data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x1B73

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 9|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | [[FF7/Materia dataMateria_data|Materia data]]|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x1C11

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 10|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Command descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x1F32

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 11|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Magic descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x2199

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 12|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Item descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x28D4

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 13|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Weapon descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x2EE2

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 14|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Armor descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x307B

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 15|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Accessory descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x315F

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 16|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Materia descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x3384

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 17|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Key Item descriptions|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x3838

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 18|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Command Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x3BE2

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 19|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Magic Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x3CCA

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 20|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Item Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x4293

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 21|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Weapon Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x4651

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 22|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Armor Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x4B02

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 23|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Accessory Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x4C4B

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 24|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Materia Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x4D90

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 25|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Key Item Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x5040

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 26|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Battle and Battle-Screen Text|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x5217

|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" align="center" | 27|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | Summon Attack Names|style="background:rgb(255,255,255)" | 0x5692

   == KERNEL.BIN Section formats == The first 9 sections of maximum allotted storage space on the PC version for all un-LZSed data (i.e. The non-text related items) have a typical BIN file format. The text sections (10-27) do not have the typical 6 byte header. The text sections have a header of pointers to the text block. The text is in FF text format.       === Section 4: Initialization data === This contains the starting stats for the characters and related game stateskernel2. On "New Game", this data bin is copied directly into the [[FF&/Savemap|Savemap]] 27KB (from offset 0x0054 to 0x0BAF27648 bytes) which is explained in the "Menu" section. This data has the same format as the data explained in means that section.            == The KERNEL2.BIN Archive == On the PC version there exists a secondary kernel archive called KERNEL2.BIN. This archive contains only sections 10-27 (Text data) total size of KERNEL.BIN. The data was ungzipped from the original archive, concatenated together, extracted files (text and then LZSed into a single archive with a 4 byte header giving the length of the file. See the section on BIN types and LZS compression later in pointers) must be less than this document for more information.