spankminister

Hi, I need some help dumping the game script for translation from Jinguuji Saburou: Ashes and Diamonds: https://vndb.org/v19010 Inspecting the game contents, there are directories like: psp_game usrdir script script_outline script_pass Within these directories, there are .DAT files that have names like 03_32_02.dat. Inspecting these files shows a 4-byte header specifying the size of the decompressed file, and then a gzip header (1F 8B). Thinking I'd figured it out, I stripped out the headers and gunzipped, but I can't make sense of the resulting files. The script directory also contains .AT3 and .PMF files for the BGM and movies. It's possible some of these decompressed .DAT files are images, I'm not even sure. I'm just trying to decode them as Shift-JIS, EUC-JP or UTF-8/16 and not having much luck. There are some other directories with other extensions like .ZPK that I've unpacked since they contain GZipped data also, but they're generally pretty small and I'm not sure they're the scripts. In any case, their contents have the same problem. I know people here are generally pretty experienced with script dumping, can anyone give me some pointers on how to find the encoding? Or am I going about this entirely wrong, and there's a better way to unpack these .DAT files? I've been looking through as many threads as I can. This game is by WorkJam, and seems different than many other ".DAT" format files that other people have successfully dumped. Thanks in advance!