DS game only 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 8 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 + 8 * 0x20, allocates the destination
RAM region at 0x02155a00, decompresses
the body in-place (if compressed), and resolves any external
relocations.
To inspect this overlay outside the running game, decompress
overlay/overlay_008.bin with
ndspy.codeCompression.decompress() (Python ndspy library)
and load the resulting plaintext into Ghidra or
IDA at base address 0x02155a00. The
raw Ghidra auto-analysis dump used to populate this page lives at
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/raw/ov008.json;
the per-overlay descriptive markdown is at
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/ov008.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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customerlistβdata/2d/customerlist.lzs
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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2d/customerlist.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 32 functions
| # | Address | Size | Calls | Strings | Role hint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0x02155a6c | 90 | 11 | 0 | code |
| 2 | 0x02155acc | 870 | 55 | 2 | refs: 2d/customerlist.lzs \| customerlist |
| 3 | 0x02155e74 | 36 | 4 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 4 | 0x02155e98 | 802 | 50 | 0 | high-fan-out (likely dispatcher / setup) |
| 5 | 0x021561c4 | 164 | 9 | 0 | code |
| 6 | 0x0215626c | 14 | 2 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 7 | 0x02156280 | 98 | 8 | 0 | code |
| 8 | 0x021562e8 | 80 | 8 | 0 | code |
| 9 | 0x02156340 | 120 | 5 | 0 | code |
| 10 | 0x021563bc | 82 | 0 | 0 | code |
| 11 | 0x02156414 | 134 | 5 | 0 | code |
| 12 | 0x0215649c | 56 | 1 | 0 | code |
| 13 | 0x021564d8 | 22 | 1 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 14 | 0x021564f4 | 106 | 8 | 0 | code |
| 15 | 0x02156564 | 62 | 6 | 0 | code |
| 16 | 0x021565a8 | 58 | 2 | 0 | code |
| 17 | 0x021565e8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 18 | 0x021565fc | 26 | 2 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 19 | 0x0215661c | 142 | 9 | 0 | code |
| 20 | 0x021566b4 | 236 | 10 | 0 | code |
| 21 | 0x021567a8 | 80 | 3 | 0 | code |
| 22 | 0x02156800 | 30 | 1 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 23 | 0x0215688c | 284 | 10 | 0 | code |
| 24 | 0x021569a8 | 684 | 36 | 12 | refs: customerlist \| customerlist \| customerlist \| customerlist \| customerlist \| customerlist |
| 25 | 0x02156c9c | 114 | 13 | 0 | code |
| 26 | 0x02156d24 | 824 | 82 | 0 | high-fan-out (likely dispatcher / setup) |
| 27 | 0x02157074 | 18 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 28 | 0x02157090 | 52 | 3 | 0 | code |
| 29 | 0x021570c8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 30 | 0x021570dc | 18 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 31 | 0x021570f8 | 36 | 1 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 32 | 0x02157124 | 12 | 1 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
Open questions & conflicts
Open questions / unknowns
- Auto-analysis identified 32 functions covering 5370 of 6272 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
- Partial overlap: prior-pass had `['customerlist']`; Ghidra adds `['2d/customerlist.lzs']`.
Source
- Per-overlay markdown:
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/ov008.md - Raw Ghidra dump:
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/raw/ov008.json - Overlay-system explainer: overlays system
- Plain-English overlay primer: overlay knowledgebase