User:Thefanman

Gran Turismo 2 Stuff
After extracting from GT2.vol with GT2Vol:


 * Car textures: The cnp.gz and cdp.gz files in the carobj directory have them. Un-gzip them, then in the resulting files, delete the first 17,312 bytes (or start viewing from there). They're raw format, not tims. With XnView, set it's raw reading settings to 256x112, Sequential, Grayscale. The actual palettes might be in the ignored bytes, but as far as viewing them, that's enough.


 * Car nameplates: These are bog standard tims in the carlogo directory.


 * Minimaps: Ungzip the files in the crsmap directory for more bog standard tims.


 * Course textures: Un-gzip the crsobj/*.trp.gz files. The textures are tims inside the resulting trp files. To make it easy, stuff all the trp files into an ISO and scan it with jpsxdec. The method also works with the .crstims.tsd.gz file in the root.


 * Sky textures: As above but un-gzip the bgsobj/*.bsp.gz files, ISO them and scan 'em with jpsxdec


 * Iconimg.dat.gz - ungzip, open raw at 128x48 (RGB, sequential, UK disc), 128x84 (RGB, Sequential, JP disc) or 256x128 (grayscale, interleaved).


 * gtmenu/ /gtmenudat.dat: This is an archive of thousands of gzip files. Don't know what's in 'em, but they're there.

For all the above files, the JP arcade and sim discs are identical, as are the EU ones. The US (1.2) arcade and sim discs aren't, due to the arcade disc retaining the #6 Nascar Ford Taurus racing modification and the Ford Focus rally car keeping it's Valvoline sponsorship logo. The Sim versions of those two cars use the EU textures.

The naming scheme for the nameplate graphics are: (the Sim and arcade might be the other way round). The EU disks contain all 6 versions for most cars, the US ones the US and JP ones, and JP just JP.
 * If the fifth letter is a 'n', it's for a non-racing version of the car. If it's a 'r', it's for the racing model
 * The sixth letters determine region and purpose:
 * l: Sim garage JP
 * m: Arcade JP
 * n: Sim garage US
 * o: Arcade US
 * p: Sim garage EU
 * q: Arcade EU