DS game only ov111 input_text_2d_ui
containers: inp_bg, inp_objcell, inp_objchara (+5 more)
Header
Numeric metadata for this overlay as read from the overlay table at ROM
offset 0x8DE00 (per-entry stride 32 bytes). Function
counts, data-item counts, and the call-graph fan-out are from a Ghidra
11.3.1 headless auto-analysis pass.
Reading the binary
The overlay ships on the cart at file ID 111 under the BLZ code-LZ compression wrapper (the same backward-LZ scheme Nintendo uses for executable ARM9 code).
At load time the engine reads the overlay table entry at ROM offset
0x8DE00 + 111 * 0x20, allocates the destination
RAM region at 0x0215e4a0, decompresses
the body in-place (if compressed), and resolves any external
relocations.
To inspect this overlay outside the running game, decompress
overlay/overlay_111.bin with
ndspy.codeCompression.decompress() (Python ndspy library)
and load the resulting plaintext into Ghidra or
IDA at base address 0x0215e4a0. The
raw Ghidra auto-analysis dump used to populate this page lives at
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/raw/ov111.json;
the per-overlay descriptive markdown is at
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/ov111.md.
Embedded strings
1 UTF-16 LE string live inside this overlay's compiled binary. These addresses are absolute (inside the overlay's RAM image after load). The text is stored as little-endian UTF-16 code units, NUL-terminated.
Container references
Distinct container basenames referenced by this overlay. Each is loaded via the content cache by passing the basename string to a lookup that resolves it to a file ID in the ROM's FAT. The path column shows the file's location in the clean extract, where resolved.
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inp_bgβdata/inputstr/inp_bg.lzs -
inp_objcellβdata/inputstr/inp_objcell.lzs -
inp_objcharaβdata/inputstr/inp_objchara.lzs -
tabooβdata/inputstr/taboo.bin
Unresolved
These container basenames appeared in the overlay's string table but no file of that name was found in the clean extract. Most are false-positive ASCII matches (function names, register maps, fragments of other strings); a few may be containers that the overlay names but never actually opens. Listed for completeness.
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inputstr/inp_bg.lzsβ no matching container found in clean extract -
inputstr/inp_objcell.lzsβ no matching container found in clean extract -
inputstr/inp_objchara.lzsβ no matching container found in clean extract -
inputstr/strdata.lzsβ no matching container found in clean extract
Function list
Functions Ghidra auto-identified inside this overlay's RAM range.
Names prefixed FUN_ are auto-generated from the function's
entry address; size is in bytes; the "calls" column counts both
intra-overlay branches and external ARM9 call targets. The "strings"
column counts how many UTF-16 LE strings each function references.
Show all 22 functions
| # | Address | Size | Calls | Strings | Role hint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0x0215e594 | 8 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 2 | 0x0215ea18 | 38 | 5 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 3 | 0x0215ed60 | 22 | 2 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 4 | 0x0215edb8 | 694 | 28 | 2 | refs: inp_objcell \| inp_objcell |
| 5 | 0x0215f098 | 170 | 5 | 0 | code |
| 6 | 0x0215f14c | 216 | 13 | 0 | code |
| 7 | 0x0215f230 | 222 | 4 | 0 | code |
| 8 | 0x0215f314 | 340 | 4 | 0 | code |
| 9 | 0x0215f48c | 184 | 8 | 0 | code |
| 10 | 0x0215f548 | 212 | 13 | 0 | code |
| 11 | 0x0215f630 | 86 | 8 | 0 | code |
| 12 | 0x0215f68c | 10 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 13 | 0x0215f6a0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 14 | 0x0215f6b4 | 26 | 2 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 15 | 0x0215f6d4 | 236 | 14 | 0 | code |
| 16 | 0x0215f7d0 | 62 | 5 | 0 | code |
| 17 | 0x0215f814 | 132 | 11 | 0 | code |
| 18 | 0x0215f8a8 | 250 | 14 | 2 | refs: inp_bg \| inp_bg |
| 19 | 0x0215f9b4 | 96 | 9 | 0 | code |
| 20 | 0x0215fa18 | 886 | 43 | 0 | high-fan-out (likely dispatcher / setup) |
| 21 | 0x0215fdc4 | 74 | 1 | 4 | refs: inp_objcell \| inp_objcell \| inp_objcell \| inp_objchara |
| 22 | 0x0215fe34 | 12 | 1 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
Open questions & conflicts
Open questions / unknowns
- Auto-analysis identified 22 functions covering 3986 of 7072 overlay bytes.
- Function names are auto-generated `FUN_<addr>`. Manual renaming based on call-graph + string-ref analysis is a follow-up.
- BSS size is 0 bytes; Ghidra-imported overlay does not include BSS so any references into the BSS range appear as unresolved.
Conflicts with the prior shallow pass
- No major conflicts detected with prior-pass `overlay_role_final.json` record.
Source
- Per-overlay markdown:
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/ov111.md - Raw Ghidra dump:
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/raw/ov111.json - Overlay-system explainer: overlays system
- Plain-English overlay primer: overlay knowledgebase