Panzer Dragoon Saga RAM Map

[televandalist]

I don't know how useful a RAM map would be for this project, but I can provide what I have:

• bitflags for most, if not all break objects, access objects, etc.
• bitflags for every map tile being explored, moreso than the game itself tracks for completion percentage
• most event flags
• most, if not all map IDs
• addresses and values for the bestiary and rankings
• all items, inventory, upgrades, etc.
• pointers related to the box game minigames and battle data
• flags for if Panzer Dragoon II Zwei data was loaded
• player and dragon stats
• and more....

Seems like a bunch of random stuff some random guy on the internet would have readily available, but RAM-digging is an essential part to making a set for RetroAchievements, which I did for Panzer Dragoon Saga: https://retroachievements.org/game/14506

There are gaps in info because I mostly only looked for what I needed for achievement creation, but I'd welcome an excuse to keep digging.

Cheers

[Aeonitis]

@televandalist Apologies, I just saw this 5 days late.

YES! This would certainly be helpful. I knew about that site, but didn't notice the memory digging/inspection aspect of it. Certainly makes sense in hindsight, went under my nose! Reverse Engineering has too many vectors towards a solution combined with lateral thinking, but I didn't realize I'd get a scene I did not correlate to reverse engineering to actually be a definite help.

Why would this be useful? In the context of this conversation, code is essentially declaring, initializing, and manipulating memory whether copying, resizing, toggling, shifting or swapping, so those references from the memory maps you have will be direct and indirect indicators to such behaviours!

I have a discord server with zero members but if you feel like dming me the data, instead of sharing it publicly, please do so here https://discord.gg/UwvxQxsX no need to join the server, just see my tag and dm me the data.

I think you're comfortable with git based on your profile, so I would recommend you make a PR too, if you'd like? I imagine my only qualm will be on the folder structure, and confirming which parts you may be sure and unsure of so that it's declared before it's approved.

Thank you again for being part of this, I appreciate your contribution @televandalist ! No matter how large or small or whatever way suits you! Have a nice weekend.