headers.json

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        "_comment": "end_pointer 0x6C → next section start (minus 16 bytes padding)"
      },
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        "max_sub_count": 1,
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        "max_sub_count": 1,
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        "_comment": "end_pointer 0xFC → next section start (minus 12 bytes padding)"
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        "max_sub_count": 1,
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        "max_sub_count": 1,
        "entry_count": 16701,
        "_comment": "count at *0x010+0x08"
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    },
    "monsters": {
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        "max_sub_count": 1,
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        "_comment": "count at *0x010+0x22"
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    },
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        "field_offset": 4,
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      }
    },
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    }
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        "_comment": "end_pointer 0xFB0 → next section start"
      },
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        "_comment": "end_pointer 0xC0 → next section start"
      }
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      "grouped_entries": true,
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      "grouped_entries": true,
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      "entry_size": 8,
      "field_offset": 4,
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      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 607,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x04"
    },
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      "entry_size": 8,
      "field_offset": 4,
      "max_display_width": 162,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 106,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x06"
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      "entry_size": 16,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 14,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 7,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x22"
    },
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      "entry_size": 16,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 13,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 4,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x24"
    },
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      "begin_pointer": "0x68",
      "entry_size": 16,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 13,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 3,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x26"
    },
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      "begin_pointer": "0x6C",
      "entry_size": 16,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 14,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 18,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x28"
    },
    "text_c8": {
      "begin_pointer": "0xC8",
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 162,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 22,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x52"
    },
    "text_cc": {
      "begin_pointer": "0xCC",
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 127,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 11,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x54"
    },
    "text_d0": {
      "begin_pointer": "0xD0",
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 150,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 13,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x5A"
    },
    "text_d4": {
      "begin_pointer": "0xD4",
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 124,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 24,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x5C"
    },
    "text_94": {
      "field_0": {
        "begin_pointer": "0x94",
        "entry_size": 16,
        "field_offset": 4,
        "max_display_width": 16,
        "max_sub_count": 1,
        "entry_count": 153,
        "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x1C"
      },
      "field_1": {
        "begin_pointer": "0x94",
        "entry_size": 16,
        "field_offset": 8,
        "max_display_width": 16,
        "max_sub_count": 1,
        "entry_count": 153,
        "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x1C"
      }
    }
  },
  "inf": {
    "_comment": "Quest data (mhfinf.bin). Multi-level category table with 8 text strings per quest.",
    "quests": {
      "begin_pointer": "0x14",
      "quest_table": true,
      "count_base_pointer": "0x10",
      "count_offset": "0x00",
      "count_type": "u16",
      "quest_text_offset": "0x28",
      "text_pointers_count": 8,
      "max_display_width": 246,
      "max_sub_count": 8,
      "_comment": "count at *0x10+0x00"
    }
  },
  "jmp": {
    "_comment": "Jump/teleport menu data (mhfjmp.bin).",
    "menu": {
      "title": {
        "begin_pointer": "0x00",
        "entry_count": 24,
        "entry_size": 56,
        "field_offset": 48,
        "max_display_width": 24,
        "max_sub_count": 1
      },
      "description": {
        "begin_pointer": "0x00",
        "entry_count": 24,
        "entry_size": 56,
        "field_offset": 52,
        "max_display_width": 89,
        "max_sub_count": 1
      }
    },
    "strings": {
      "begin_pointer": "0x0C",
      "max_display_width": 107,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 5,
      "_comment": "count at 0x10"
    }
  },
  "nav": {
    "_comment": "Hunter Navi data (mhfnav.bin). Text fields not yet documented in ImHex patterns."
  },
  "gao": {
    "_comment": "Felyne partner / companion data (mhfgao.bin). First-pass coverage: header-rooted null-terminated s32p tables. Additional sections (0x020/0x028/0x02C equipment description tables, 0x040 event dialogue) are reached via meta-tables at 0xC640-0xC680 and still need struct RE.",
    "armor_helm": {
      "_comment": "Felyne head armor names (ネコヘルム). Uses fixed count because a 'YYYY/MM/DD' build-date ASCII string is stored between the table end and its 0 terminator, which would break null-terminated mode.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x18",
      "entry_count": 257,
      "entry_size": 4,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 20,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "armor_mail": {
      "_comment": "Felyne body armor names (ネコメイル).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x1C",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 20,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 257
    },
    "weapon_names": {
      "_comment": "Felyne weapon names. 257 fixed entries. First three are English fallbacks ('None', 'Cat Bone Pick', 'Cat Paw Punch') pointing into the English text region at 0x34000+.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x28",
      "entry_count": 257,
      "entry_size": 4,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 24,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "armor_desc": {
      "_comment": "Felyne armor descriptions. Flat s32p array, 3 strings per description followed by a 0 terminator (4 ptrs per group). Row 0 is an English 'Nothing equipped.' fallback with only 1 non-null ptr.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x20",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "grouped_entries": true,
      "pointers_per_entry": 4,
      "max_display_width": 28,
      "max_sub_count": 3,
      "entry_count": 514
    },
    "weapon_desc": {
      "_comment": "Felyne weapon descriptions. Same layout as armor_desc (s32p groups of 4, 3 strings + 0 terminator per description).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x2C",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "grouped_entries": true,
      "pointers_per_entry": 4,
      "max_display_width": 28,
      "max_sub_count": 3,
      "entry_count": 257
    },
    "dialogue_type_0": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 0 (40 lines, enthusiastic/cat-fighter).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x90",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 95,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_1": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 1 (40 lines, humble/grateful).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x94",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 117,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_2": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 2 (40 lines, timid/anxious).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x98",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 109,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_3": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 3 (40 lines, aloof/self-reliant).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x9C",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 139,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_4": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 4 (40 lines, earnest/trainee).",
      "begin_pointer": "0xA0",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 140,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_5": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 5 (40 lines, polite/respectful).",
      "begin_pointer": "0xA4",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 128,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_6": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 6 (40 lines, cheerful/spirited).",
      "begin_pointer": "0xA8",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 133,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "dialogue_type_7": {
      "_comment": "Felyne partner dialogue template, personality type 7 (40 lines, cool/casual).",
      "begin_pointer": "0xAC",
      "null_terminated": true,
      "max_display_width": 123,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "entry_count": 40
    },
    "skill_text": {
      "_comment": "Felyne skill descriptions + English skill names. Flat s32p array of 238 entries at header 0x124 -> 0x13EC0: [0..1] English headers ('None', 'Disables wind pressure.'), [2..55] 54 Japanese skill effect descriptions (the previously orphan region at 0x13EC8 is reachable as entries [2..55] of this table), [56..237] 182 English skill name/description strings. End of array coincides with the start of the other slices at header 0x108/0x10c.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x124",
      "entry_count": 238,
      "entry_size": 4,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 78,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "skill_names_zenith": {
      "_comment": "English Zenith/Myriad Felyne skill names (9 entries: Status Immunity, Status Immunity Myriad, No Stamin Depletion [Small/Large], Elemental Attack Up, Affinity Up [Small/Large], Divine Protection, Goddess' Embrace).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x12C",
      "entry_count": 9,
      "entry_size": 4,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 27,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "situational_dialogue": {
      "_comment": "end_pointer 0x48 → next section start",
      "begin_pointer": "0x40",
      "scan_region": true,
      "max_display_width": 112,
      "max_sub_count": 1,
      "scan_end_pointer": "0x48"
    }
  },
  "sqd": {
    "_comment": "Squad / NPC partner data (mhfsqd.bin). Greenfield RE: the file header at 0x00-0x38 stores 15 u32 pointers that delimit struct-strided tables in the data region, with a flat Shift-JIS string blob at 0x40-0x14C0. String pointers are embedded as fields within structs (not s32p arrays). First-pass coverage: 6 header-rooted struct-strided tables (~190 strings). Tables at 0x00/0x04/0x08/0x0C/0x1C/0x20/0x2C/0x30/0x34/0x38 are non-string / complex and not yet extracted.",
    "npc_names": {
      "_comment": "NPC partner names (Aaron, Bart, Calvin, Tania, ...). 43 entries, stride 8, string ptr at field 0. End matches header 0x20 (0x1B58).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x28",
      "entry_count": 43,
      "entry_size": 8,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 10,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "star_rank": {
      "_comment": "Star rank labels (one/two/three stars). 3 entries, stride 8, field 0. End matches header 0x20 (0x1B58).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x24",
      "entry_count": 3,
      "entry_size": 8,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 3,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "skill_activation": {
      "_comment": "Squad skill activation messages ('Skill X activates.'). 35 entries, stride 16, string ptr at field 8. End matches header 0x14 (0x1DC0).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x18",
      "entry_count": 35,
      "entry_size": 16,
      "field_offset": 8,
      "max_display_width": 47,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "skill_description": {
      "_comment": "Squad skill descriptions. 26 entries, stride 12, string ptr at field 4. End matches header 0x10 (0x1F00).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x14",
      "entry_count": 26,
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 4,
      "max_display_width": 147,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "skill_quest_label": {
      "_comment": "Skill quest-count labels ('Usable 5 times per quest', ...). 80 entries, stride 12, string ptr at field 4. End matches header 0x0C (0x22C0).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x10",
      "entry_count": 80,
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 4,
      "max_display_width": 53,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "header_labels": {
      "_comment": "Header / placeholder labels (point suppression, point reset). 3 entries, stride 12, string ptr at field 4. End matches header 0x34 (0x1510) — but layout is irregular; only field 4 is reliably a string across all rows. First entry is a placeholder '1234567890'.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x38",
      "entry_count": 3,
      "entry_size": 12,
      "field_offset": 4,
      "max_display_width": 24,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    }
  },
  "rcc": {
    "_comment": "Reception / event info strings (mhfrcc.bin). First-pass coverage: the English event-info pointer table at 0x580 is clean (7 entries). Japanese equivalents live in a variable-length struct region near 0x5c0 mixed with numeric fields and are not yet fully mapped.",
    "events_en": {
      "_comment": "English event info strings referenced by a contiguous 7-entry s32p table pointed to by u32 at file offset 0x08.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x08",
      "entry_count": 7,
      "entry_size": 4,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 22,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "events_full": {
      "_comment": "Event info multi-field struct table at 0x5c0 (7 rows x 36-byte stride). Header u32 at 0x00 = 0x5c0 (base), header u32 at 0x04 = 7 (count). Each row carries up to 4 string pointer fields at +0x14 (title), +0x18 (description/alt title), +0x1C / +0x20 (usually '−' placeholders but row 1 stores 'Guild Conquest is underway!' and a '残り時間…' template). Supersets events_en (row.+0x14 == events_en entries).",
      "begin_pointer": "0x00",
      "entry_count": 7,
      "entry_size": 36,
      "field_offset": [
        20,
        24,
        28,
        32
      ],
      "max_display_width": 129,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    }
  },
  "msx": {
    "_comment": "Mezeporta Festa item/effect strings (mhfmsx.bin). First-pass coverage: a 17-entry struct-strided table at literal file offset 0x2abc containing (name_ptr, desc_ptr) pairs per 0x24-byte struct. Most slots are '----' placeholders; ~10 slots contain real item names and their effect descriptions.",
    "item_name": {
      "_comment": "Name pointer (field +0x00) of each 0x24-byte struct.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x2abc",
      "literal_base": true,
      "entry_count": 17,
      "entry_size": 36,
      "field_offset": 0,
      "max_display_width": 6,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    },
    "item_effect": {
      "_comment": "Effect/description pointer (field +0x04) of each 0x24-byte struct.",
      "begin_pointer": "0x2abc",
      "literal_base": true,
      "entry_count": 17,
      "entry_size": 36,
      "field_offset": 4,
      "max_display_width": 22,
      "max_sub_count": 1
    }
  }
}