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Okay, we can actually solve two mysteries right away. If we follow the first pointer we come to 0x2A8. We get the value 0x0A followed by 0x0000. So 0x0A is probably the count of triangles, and 0x0000 is probably to the pointer for the start of the triangle block. We know that the size of the...

I guess we'll take a look at the c.rel collision maps. Like pretty much all of the .rel files, we start at the end of file minus 0x10 bytes, which gives us a pointer to the header. In this case we read the pointer 0x018B34, seek to it. And all we see is another pointer 0x0184A4. We can then...

I'm going to call this good enough for now. I went and added in the animated models as a static part of the mesh. If needed I can go back and export them as separate animated meshes. In that case I would need to add in some user data of where the animated model is in the scene.

Since .xj ended up being black magic, I went ahead and jumped back to Dreamcast formats to continue to fill more stuff in. Here's the basic concept of the map files working. It will probably break on Mines as I needed to add in the user offset space between the strips. And animated models...

Okay, for the issues above. - Strips are weird, debugging that now - Alpha Blending is now set (in limited cases) - The models that break were breaking on animation, so i'll debug that when i finish strips For XJ strips, the approach to convert strips back into triangles is not straight...

That went faster than I could have expected. The basics of the plugin are generally working. There are still a few issues. - Right now i'm being lazy and using double-sided for everything, so need to fix strips - Alpha blending isn't set - Some models have an error and break completely Plugin...

Okay, decided to go with xj. Managed to get the geometry working pretty quickly thanks to Wilhuf's Documentation. I guess next we'll have to figure out how to implement .xvm / .xvr textures.

Kind of debating which step to take next. Should I go with .rel files (for Dreamcast?) or look into .xj for PsoBB?

I managed to find some time to work on a Noesis plugin. What this plugin does is that it basically replicates what the built-in Noesis plugin already does, but does it while being open source. While this may seem kind of redundant at first, the main advantage is you can see what's going on, you...

Well balls. I thought I had a page collision, but I can't find it. So I might as well go back and document that next.

A few notes. I managed to hex edit the IP address. Downloading and editing the pre-patched 127.0.0.1 version ended up being the easiest option as it makes it easier to see what needs to be edited. Which means we can connect, but then we run into this issue, which probably means that our server...

As in adding a null byte inbetween the strings. 192.168.4.16\0192.168.4.16\0 for a single null byte in between the ip strings or 192.168.4.16\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0192.168.4.16\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0 adding padding to try and match the offsets of the original strings. It might be easier using the...

For the address on the client, I ended up overwriting the DNS for the address defined in the client. I tried hex editing the text to 192.168.4.16, first by just adding a null byte in between each string, and then by replacing the start position of each prior string and adding null bytes in...

Next step will be testing with the client. Originally I was thinking that I might try to be lazy to try and use the game client with the normal teth, and then just send packets to the test server. But it's probably a better idea to have the game client to connect to the test server, and that...

I think I got a local server set up, I can write some notes on how I got it working. I would like to avoid using my local computer, as I'm kind of too lazy to start the server every time I turn on the computer, I decided to go with a Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is just a Raspberry Pi 3...

Now that we can export pretty much all of the assets from the game, and a lot of the asset documentation is complete. The next thing I want to get into is an Open Source PSO client. Originally I was tempted to export assets from PSU or PS-Zero, but I think that swapping assets out and...

I guess the start flow would look something like this.

Thanks to you and vincent for the plugin. I looked over the PDF and saw that they included a lot more detailed descriptions of strip flags, and material flags, ect. compared to what's in the NinjaGD.pdf from the Katana SDK. For the most part I think I have a pretty accurate representation of the...

Trying to think of what else is left to document to try and complete everything for PSOv2 on the PC / DC. I need to add the example implementation for PVM, should probably start the wiki on PVR. And then what's remaining after that is the stage documentation. So probably next post I can start...

Okay, I might as well start drafting out documentation for the PVR file format. 'Pvr' stands for PowerVR, and we can use wikipedia for an explanation of what PowerVR. Imagination Technologies is a company in the UK. And it looks like the Japanese company NEC licensed the technology from...