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[]
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[]
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
Tools and Patches[]
- Tools and Patches