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140 character stamps used in mail and on bio sheets. Stored in a single RESO container with a shared 512-byte palette and a separate stamp-picker UI frame.

The little face stamps that appear on mail, gift tags, and the bio / journal pages all live in one container. There are 140 of them, one per recognised NPC plus a handful of generic / placeholder slots, and they share a single palette file. The picker UI you see when you go to attach a stamp is a separate file.

The three files

FileSizeRole
npcstamp/npcstamp.ofs 34 KB RESO container with 140 entries β€” one stamp graphic per NPC.
npcstamp/npcstpcmn.lzs 512 bytes Shared palette / sub-tileset used by every stamp. Tiny because all stamps re-use the same color ramp.
2d/stamp.lzs 14.5 KB The stamp-picker UI frame β€” the screen the player sees when choosing which stamp to use.

Why the palette lives in a separate file

A 4bpp tile sheet plus its 32-byte palette is the normal NDS arrangement; what makes stamps unusual is that the palette is factored out so all 140 stamps share it. That keeps npcstamp.ofs down to 34 KB instead of duplicating the same color ramp 140 times. When rendering, the loader pairs each NCGR inside npcstamp.ofs with the NCLR inside npcstpcmn.lzs β€” see finding the right palette for the general rule (Tier 2: container-shared palette).

Renders

All 140 stamps have been rendered out of the container as PNGs and catalogued as npc000_stamp.png through npc139_stamp.png. They live alongside the wider 2D asset dump and are used by the NPC name canon, the bug-report forms, and the NPC scenes section of 2D Assets to thumbnail each character.

Translation impact

The stamps themselves are just face graphics β€” they have no text and don't need any translation work. The only Japanese the player ever sees on this surface is the title on the 2d/stamp.lzs picker frame, which is one image rather than a string table. That makes the stamp system effectively a rendering-only feature for the patch: pull frames once, ship them.

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