Data Files are gibberish

Hi, I was wondering if it's normal for the .dat files that come with Essentials to be in complete gibberish, because I thought they needed to be edited. When I look at them, however, they're just nonsensical characters that aren't even in English letter form (I'm pretty sure I've seen Japanese and Arabic characters thrown around somewhere, as well as the typical garbage characters).

Nah. Why would you need to edit the Dat files? Really, those are for the editor if anything.

I don't think you're supposed to be directly editing the .dat files. What are you aiming to do?

Rayziken 2 said:

Hi, I was wondering if it's normal for the .dat files that come with Essentials to be in complete gibberish, because I thought they needed to be edited. When I look at them, however, they're just nonsensical characters that aren't even in English letter form (I'm pretty sure I've seen Japanese and Arabic characters thrown around somewhere, as well as the typical garbage characters).

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Your .dat files come from the PBS folder .... so when the game debugs and compresses it converts the pbs files to .dat files
Take Items for instants if you Edit the PBS/Items.txt then afterwards it will have to be compressed to see the results in game.
If anything just EDIT PBS files then run debugger

ESCRaven said:

I don't think you're supposed to be directly editing the .dat files. What are you aiming to do?

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Mainly just simple stuff; adding in new moves, types, items and Pokémon.

Zeak6464 said:

Your .dat files come from the PBS folder .... so when the game debugs and compresses it converts the pbs files to .dat files
Take Items for instants if you Edit the PBS/Items.txt then afterwards it will have to be compressed to see the results in game.
If anything just EDIT PBS files then run debugger

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Ah, now I understand it. That is massive help. I can't thank you enough! :D

EDIT: Might as well ask another question whilst I'm here; is it possible to create custom move function codes. A lot of the moves I intend to make require new (but relatively simple) effects, like an Accuracy version of Flatter, for example.