Pmd2 BGP

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The BGP file format is used in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky to store full-screen background images, most notably the various images that appear in the background of the main menu.

It is stored using AT4PX compression.

Overview

Offset Length Name Description
0x0 20 Header Currently unresearched
0x20 1024 Palette Stores 64 colors for use by the tiles.
0x420 620 Tile Mapping For each 8x8 region of the screen, identifies which tile, palette, and transform to use.
0xC40 Unknown/Varies Tiles Consecutive 8x8 4bbp tiles for use in the tile mapping.

Palette

The palette consists of 1024 bytes, representing 256 colors. Each color has 4 bytes: Red, Green, Blue, and a 4th unknown byte which is always set to 0x80.