STT

The STT lump holds every configurable string that you can edit in CUSTOM (the Global Text Strings menu).

The STT lump is somewhat unusual as it is upgraded when the Global Text Strings menu is used rather than in the game upgrade process. Not all strings may be stored, depending on the when the lump was last edited. An otherwise modern game could in theory have its .STT lump missing entirely. If strings are missing you need to supply defaults. You can find the defaults in the source by looking at SUB edit_global_text_strings in customsubs.bas. (Game actually uses slightly different defaults, but it doesn't really matter.)

Every string starts at an offset that is a multiple of 11 (0-based). The first byte is the length, followed by length bytes of characters. Every string has a maximum length, which is the most that Game will read. The file is thus organised into fields of 11 bytes, however, some fields are double or triple width! (In this case, the max string length is usually 20 or 30, not 21 or 32.) You don't actually need to know the field widths to read or write the strings, just the field offsets, and also the maximum string lengths if writing.

This table helps you easily read strings. (NOTE: out of date!) For each item in the table, read (v * 11) bytes, where v is the value from the table. The first byte is the string length, the remainder are string contents (and junk, if (v * 11) > str_length)

       lengths = [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
                  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 
                  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
                  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
                  1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2,
                  2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2,
                  2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 
                  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
                  1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
                  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
                  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
                  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
                  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2]

This table shows the record offset of each string (to get byte offset, multiply the record offset by 11)

RECORD DESCRIPTION     CHARS
0      Health Points   10
1      Spell Points    10
2      Attack Power    10
3      Accuracy        10
4      Extra Hits      10
5      Blocking Power  10
6      Dodge Rate      10
7      Counter Rate    10
8      Speed           10
9      Enemy Type 1    10  (obsolete)
10     Enemy Type 2    10  (obsolete)
11     Enemy Type 3    10  (obsolete)
12     Enemy Type 4    10  (obsolete)
13     Enemy Type 5    10  (obsolete)
14     Enemy Type 6    10  (obsolete)
15     Enemy Type 7    10  (obsolete)
16     Enemy Type 8    10  (obsolete)
17     Elemental 1     10  (obsolete)
18     Elemental 2     10  (obsolete)
19     Elemental 3     10  (obsolete)
20     Elemental 4     10  (obsolete)
21     Elemental 5     10  (obsolete)
22     Elemental 6     10  (obsolete)
23     Elemental 7     10  (obsolete)
24     Elemental 8     10  (obsolete)
25     Armor 1         10
26     Armor 2         10
27     Armor 3         10
28     Armor 4         10
29     Spell Skill     10
30     Spell Block     10
31     Spell cost %    10
32     Money           10  (obsolete)
33     Experience      10
34     Item            10
35     DONE            10
36     AUTOSORT        10
37     TRASH           10
38     Weapon          10
39     -REMOVE-        10
40     -EXIT-          10
41     Discard         10
42     Cannot          10
43     Level           10
44     Yes             10
45     No              10
46     EXIT            10
47     for next        10
48     REMOVE          10
49     Pay             10
50     Cancel          10
51     CANCEL          10
52     NEW GAME        10
53     EXIT            10
54     PAUSE           10
55     Quit Playing?   20
57     Yes             10
58     No              10
59     CANCEL          10
60     Items           10
61     Spells          10
62     Status          10
63     Equip           10
64     Order           10
65     Team            10
66     Save            10
67     Quit            10
68     Map             10
69     Volume (menu)   10
70     Buy             10
71     Sell            10
72     Inn             10
73     Hire            10
74     Exit            10
75     CANNOT SELL     20
77     Worth           20
79     Trade for       20
81     and a           10
82     Worth Nothing   20
84     Sold            10
85     Trade for       20
87     Joins for       20
89     Cannot Afford   20
91     Cannot Hire     20
93     Purchased       20
95     Joined!         20
97     in stock        20
99     Equip:          10
100    No Room In Party   20
102    Replace Old Data?  20
104    Who's Status?      20
106    Who's Spells?      20
108    Equip Who?         20
110    Nothing         10
111    Has Nothing     30
114    Cannot Steal    30
117    Stole           30
120    miss            20
122    fail            20
124    learned         10
125    Found           10
126    Gained          10
127    Weak to         10  (obsolete)
128    Strong to       10  (obsolete)
129    Absorbs         10  (obsolete)
130    No Elemental Effects 30
133    has no spells   20
135    Which Hero?     20
137    Name the Hero   20
139    Found a         20
141    Found           20
143    THE INN COSTS   20
145    You have        20
147    CANNOT RUN!     20
149    Level up for    20
151    levels for      20
153    and             10
154    day             10
155    days            10
156    hour            10
157    hours           10
158    minute          10
159    minutes         10
160    Level MP        20
162    Takes > 100% element dmg     25
165    Takes 0 to 100% element dmg  25
168    Takes 0% element dmg         25
171    Takes < 0% element dmg       25
174+i*2 Elemental i                 14   (for i = 0 to 63)
302    Elemental Effects:           30
305    No room in inventory         30
308    Margins                      10
309    The shop is empty            30
312                                      (unused)
313    Purchases                    10
314    Switch to windowed           20
316    Switch to fullscreen         20
318    Music Volume                 20
320    Sound Volume                 20
322    Load                         20
324    You own                      20
326    Equipped                     20
328    Trade-in amount " (have $X)" 20
330    Currency (with '#' embed)    16
332    Skip Turn (in battle)        20

The obsolete elemental fields should be used as defaults for the first 8 elements if the new ones are missing, and should have their own default as well, of course. The obsolete enemytype fields should be used to construct the names for the next 8 elements.

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