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.
Game engine
Details of the Game
- Final Fantasy VIII’s Kernel Empty file for the moment
- Game variables used in scripting
- World map camera
- Battle encounters list
For String encoding, you can find the info on the wiki of the ShumiTranslator tool done by HobbitDur which detail the following file (link is kept here to the old wiki for archive purpose):
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
- a9btlfnt.bft
- .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] Script entity
- [MSD] Field Dialogs
- [INF] Field Gateways
- [ID] Walkmesh field (from FF7)
- [CA] Field Camera
- [TDW] Extra font
- [MSK] Mask files
- [RAT & [MRT]] Battle related
- [PMD] Particle Info
- [PMP] Particle Image Data
- PVP (No info on this wiki)
- [SFX] Sound IDs
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
For kernel data, there is a dedicated wiki in the Doomtrain tool done by Maki which detail the kernel.bin
For namedic, you can also find the info on the wiki of the ShumiTranslator tool done by HobbitDur which detail the following file (link is kept here to the old wiki for archive purpose):
For others:
Menu
For text menu, there is a dedicated wiki in the ShumiTranslator tool done by HobbitDur which detail the following files (link are kept here to the old wiki for archive purpose):
For shop, you can also find the info on the wiki of the TonberryShop tool done by HobbitDur which detail the following file (link is kept here to the old wiki for archive purpose):
For others files