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

Details of the Game

• Final Fantasy VIII's Kernel
• Game variables used in scripting
• World map camera

Media Formats

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

File Formats

Sound Files

• [FMT] Sound Archives

Battle files

• [X] Battle Fields
• [DAT] Battle Models
• Scene.out Battle structure
• r0win.dat Winning sequence
• b0wave.dat Core battle special effects data
• a9btlfnt.bft ???
• MAG/magNNN_N.N s N - [where N is various]/S files - Magic/G.F. Geometry file
• MAG/magNNN_N.N t N - [where N is various]/T files - Magic/G.F. Texture TIM data
• MAG/magNNN_N.N p N - [where N is various]/P files - Magic/G.F. ???
• MAG/magNNN_N.N r N - [where N is various]/R files - Magic/G.F. ???
• [magNNN_N.N (00,01...); (a,b,c,d...) - Mixed above files (lack of proper naming) - Click to understand how to recognize files

Field files

• [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

Tools and Patches

• Tools and Patches