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I wish to look at the dat files within pokemon essentials so that I may learn how it works. All I need to know is the program used to create the files so that I may learn from it.
Thanks in advance!
Well, the Dat files are created in a script section called Compiler. There's isn't a one to one though, pokemon.txt turns into 6 different files. There is a page on the wiki explaining the compiler, it hasn't been updated for v17 but not much changed when it comes to the big sweeps and formatting. It does focus a bit more on the reading of the PBS file than the saving though.
Mind you that some of the dat files are created with Marshal.dump (or save_data, a method that wraps it), which is a special format. The format is apparently slightly different depending on the version of ruby, but I think the main sweeps is the same based on opening those files in a hex editor. This is for version 2.1.0, I couldn't find one for 1.8.1, the version RMXP uses.
