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Object Types

Song Chart Editor Text#

Every song chart file contains a chunk of garbage data—random contents of RAM from when the file was created. In particular, there is text from what appears to be a song chart editing program:

Alignment
Caption
delete
Exit (&E)
ExitE1
ExitE1Click
Height
Label41
Left
MeterAttackDamageFactor
MeterGuardFactor （HIT精度*Value）
OnClick
OpenDialog1
Option(&O)
OptionO1
SaveDialog1
SectionAddClick
SectionArrowUp
SectionDelete
SectionDeleteClick
Setting (&S)
SettingS1
SettingS1Click
ShortCut
TabOrder
taRightJustify
TButton
TLabel
TMenuItem
TOpenDialog
TSaveDialog
Width
↑

（HIT精度*Value） is Japanese for "(Hit Accuracy * Value)."

Resource Pack Editor Text#

Resource packs are files that contains models and/or images. Like song charts, they also have garbage data that contains text. Some of the text appears to come from a program that edits or creates resource pack files.

Below, the text fragments have been pieced together to form reconstructed text:

• Bold text comes from text fragments found in the garbage data.
• Normal text is the best guess for missing parts of the text.

Development Folders and Filenames#

In the garbage data in resource packs, there are also fragments of folder names and filenames that may have been used during development.

Unless noted, the folders don't exist in the final game. The files appear to exist in the final game as images and animations, but not as-is—they've all been renamed or packed inside other files.

For the reconstructed text below:

• Bold text comes from the text fragments on the right.
• Normal text is the best guess for missing text.
  • Guesses are based on context, other text fragments, filenames in the final game, and animations from Gitaroo Man Lives!¹
• "..." stands for unknown missing text.

Stage Assets#

The PROJECTS\STSOZAI folder contains lots of assets—not just for stages, but also for characters and possibly other things:

SOZAI (そざい) is Japanese for "raw materials" or "foundation materials."

Assets for the tutorial stage:

A STAGE00 folder does exist in the final game, but 2D does not, nor does the folder whose name begins with "bg".

• bg may be related to stage background scenery.
• 2D is probably for Puma's captions and other two-dimensional graphics.
  • 28-2.imx and 39.imx exist in the final game as Puma's captions, but they're inside a resource pack instead of loose files like this.

Assets for Stage 1:

A STAGE01 folder exists in the final game, but it doesn't have anything that begins with "BG_KOMO".

• BG_KOMO may be short for something like "background common."

Character Assets#

The PROJECTS\STSOZAI\CHAR folder contains assets for various characters.

Normal U-1#

Tutorial animations for normal U-1:

In the final game, animations aren't separate files like this; instead, they're contained inside the model file.

A Stage 4 animation for normal U-1. The folder that contains it is unknown:

Gitaroo Man#

Various folders for Gitaroo Man's assets:

Some animations in Story\st08\:

Another one of Gitaroo Man's animations:

Puma#

A tutorial animation for normal Puma:

Assets folders for Puma AC-30:

Mojo King Bee#

Some multiplayer animations for Mojo King Bee:

Bandmen#

An assets folder for all three bandmen:

One of Mr. Yasuda's animations:

One of Yung's animations:

One of Noren's animations and a couple unknown files:

Multiple Possible Characters#

Animations that could belong to several possible characters:

Localization#

These text fragments are only found in the South Korean and European versions.

A server share called Inis-kun and a folder for Gitaroo Man graphics:

iNiS Corporation is the main developer of Gitaroo Man, and adding "-kun" makes it sound like a boyish name.

Some subfolders inside GMan Grfx:

ギタルマンローカライズ is Japanese for "Gitaroo Man localize." XGM is the extension for resource pack files.

And inside that, a subfolder for each language:

korean is for the South Korean version. eu_english, french, and german are for the European version.

Inside each of those language folders, a subfolder related to character profiles:

キャラクタ紹介 is Japanese for "character introduction" or "character profile," possibly referring to Collection. The part beginning with "char" could be a folder or a file.

Also inside each language folder are subfolders MC, SV, and LD, plus some image filenames:

The MC, SV, and LD folders also exist in the final game, where they contain graphics for saving and loading. But once again, the final image files are in a resource pack instead of loose files like this.

Unknown text fragments related to the European localization.

fukidasi (ふきだし) is Japanese for "speech bubble."

Other Assets#

A folder or file beginning with "EF". It may be related to assets for glowing energy and light effects:

Probably for the crane that restrains Puma in Stage 7:

Unknown. Probably for a model (or category of models) in Stage 2:

Unknown, but might be somehow related to the "shield" effect or animations when guarding:

Final Game Folders#

Of all the reconstructed folder paths, only these ones actually exist as folders in the final game (not counting the drive letters).

Folders that exist in all versions of the final game:

Folders that exist in the Japanese version:

Remarks#

References#