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 89 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 + 89 * 0x20, allocates the destination
RAM region at 0x021597a0, decompresses
the body in-place (if compressed), and resolves any external
relocations.
To inspect this overlay outside the running game, decompress
overlay/overlay_089.bin with
ndspy.codeCompression.decompress() (Python ndspy library)
and load the resulting plaintext into Ghidra or
IDA at base address 0x021597a0. The
raw Ghidra auto-analysis dump used to populate this page lives at
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/raw/ov089.json;
the per-overlay descriptive markdown is at
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/ov089.md.
Embedded strings
No UTF-16 LE strings are embedded directly in this overlay's binary. Any text it displays at runtime comes from a container file loaded via the content cache.
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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staffrollβdata/2d/staffroll.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/staffroll.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 12 functions
| # | Address | Size | Calls | Strings | Role hint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0x0215984c | 80 | 8 | 0 | code |
| 2 | 0x021598a0 | 186 | 7 | 1 | refs: 2d/staffroll.lzs |
| 3 | 0x02159a20 | 46 | 3 | 1 | refs: staffroll.lzs |
| 4 | 0x02159a58 | 82 | 5 | 1 | refs: staffroll.lzs |
| 5 | 0x02159ab0 | 82 | 5 | 1 | refs: staffroll.lzs |
| 6 | 0x02159b08 | 86 | 5 | 0 | code |
| 7 | 0x02159b68 | 400 | 6 | 0 | code |
| 8 | 0x02159d10 | 26 | 2 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 9 | 0x02159d30 | 178 | 6 | 0 | code |
| 10 | 0x02159de8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
| 11 | 0x02159df8 | 334 | 16 | 1 | refs: staffroll.lzs |
| 12 | 0x02159f84 | 12 | 1 | 0 | trampoline / small helper |
Open questions & conflicts
Open questions / unknowns
- Auto-analysis identified 12 functions covering 1528 of 2240 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 `['staffroll']`; Ghidra adds `['2d/staffroll.lzs']`.
Source
- Per-overlay markdown:
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/ov089.md - Raw Ghidra dump:
notes/overlay_knowledgebase/raw/ov089.json - Overlay-system explainer: overlays system
- Plain-English overlay primer: overlay knowledgebase