Difference between revisions of "Persona 3 and 4/BMD (File Format)"

Latest revision as of 01:36, 10 May 2015

The BMD format contains text for Persona 3/4. The format is in little endian.

Offset	Size	Description
0x00	1 byte	Chunk ID
0x04	2 bytes	Size of the file
0x08	4 bytes	MSG1 Magic Identifier
0x0c	4 bytes	Null
0x10	2 bytes	End of text table
0x14	2 bytes	Amount of offsets in offset table
0x18	1 byte	Amount of entries
0x1c	4 bytes	20000

After the header, there is a table with each entry being 2 bytes.

Offset	Size	Description
0x20	4 bytes	Null
0x24	2 bytes	Text offset relative from offset 20

After the table, the text entries begin.

Offset	Size	Description
0x00; but can be up to 0x18	18 bytes at most	Identifier of the text
0x18	2 bytes	Probably an identifier or maybe unused
0x20	2 bytes	Most likely unused

@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 ! Description
 |-
-| <font color="blue">0x00</font>
+| <font color="blue">0x20</font>
-| 1 byte
+| 4 bytes
-| Probably an identifier, always 0x7
+| Null
+|-
+| <font color="blue">0x24</font>
+| 2 bytes
+| Text offset relative from offset 20
+|}
+After the table, the text entries begin.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! Offset
+! Size
+! Description
+|-
+| <font color="blue">0x00; but can be up to 0x18</font>
+| 18 bytes at most
+| Identifier of the text
+|-
+| <font color="blue">0x18</font>
+| 2 bytes
+| Probably an identifier or maybe unused
+|-
+| <font color="blue">0x20</font>
+| 2 bytes
+| Most likely unused
 |}