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534 IXUD entries across 36 paks, 94 distinct keys, 92 resolved by name. Content identified: mission objective/lose/hint panels, 91 bonus-objective banners, scripted radio, cutscene dialogue, the reactive combat-chatter pool (MSG_ADAN 23,236 fields, MSG_RHIN 21,196, ...), resupply barks, speaker labels and the hangar weapon Name/Desc/Condition. Verified independently: language\MissionDialog_local_string.tbl decodes to 600 fields with the trailer identity holding, giving Stage 02's real objectives -- phase 1 'Shoot down all invading enemy fighters / while watching out for attacks / on the ACROPOLIS', phase 2 'Protect the Admiral's ship the CALIBAN', phase 3 'Destroy the interstellar cruise missiles'. That matches the script exactly: the phase-1 condition polls three enemy squadrons and the escort's loss is the fail branch, and phase 2 is positional, which is why no kill count appears there. The .ssb symbol names (S02_P1_OBJECTIVE etc.) are NOT IXUD keys -- they are records in an IDXD map, message\MissionDialogMessage.tbl, whose positional fields list the lowercase per-line IXUD names; *_GRAPH holds a texture instead. Structure: one record per object (except the six 63-record hangar files), 624,440 named fields, 55% of them empty line slots, no control characters, the only escape a literal two-char \n in block-text tables, and records/fields in ascending key order so lookup is a binary search. '[OB]' turns out to be a HUD marker label in this text -- the same one the REMAINING OB work chased. Six languages confirmed D/E/F/I/J/S; J omits the trailing empty line slot in 78 of 86 objects. Two keys remain unresolved, byte-identical across all six paks (untranslated Japanese voice transcripts). Also corrects mission-objectives-text.md: SUBOBJ_009 does have text, and SUBOBJ_005 is two fields.
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# `IXUD` — the game's localised text, decoded
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Status: ✅ enumeration, structure and content; ✅ six languages confirmed;
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🔴 two of 94 keys unresolved.
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The container and its hash are in [idxd-tag-hash](idxd-tag-hash.md). This is what
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is **inside** them — the text the port needs.
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## ✅ Where they are
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**534 IXUD entries, 94 distinct TOC keys, 92 resolved by name.**
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| pak | entries |
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|---|---|
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| `GP_MAIN_GAME_{D,E,F,I,J,S}` | 86 each = **516** |
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| `GP_CHALLENGE`, `GP_HANGAR_ARSENAL` | 6 each |
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| `GP_DIALOG`, `GP_LEADERBOARD`, `GP_SAVE_LOAD` | 2 each |
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Two naming conventions: language paks use `language\<file>` (the `<file>` comes
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from the `LocalStringFiles` records of the IDXD manifests in the same pak);
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other paks use `<lang3>\<file>`, e.g. `eng\Strings.tbl`.
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## ✅ What the text is
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* `MissionDialog_local_string.tbl` — mission objective / lose / hint panels
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* `SUBObjective_local_string.tbl` — 91 bonus-objective banners, two lines each
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* `ScriptMessage_S<NN>` / `…guide` — scripted in-mission radio, and the tutorial voice
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* `DemoMessage_S<NN>` — cutscene dialogue
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* `PresetMessage_S<NN>` — the bulk: reactive combat chatter keyed by speaker
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class (`MSG_ADAN` 23,236 fields, `MSG_RHIN` 21,196, `MSG_TCAF` 17,148, …)
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* `Mes_hokyu_*` — resupply/docking barks (*hokyu* = 補給, resupply)
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* `CharacterName_string.tbl` — 63 speaker labels
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* the hangar `Strings.tbl` — per-weapon `Name` / `Desc` / `Condition`
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## ✅ Stage 02's objectives, verified here
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`S02_P1_OBJECTIVE` and friends — the five-name groups in the `.ssb` symbol
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tables — are **not** IXUD keys. They are record names in an **IDXD** map,
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`message\MissionDialogMessage.tbl`, whose positional fields list the *lowercase*
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per-line IXUD names. `*_GRAPH` is the odd one: a single named field holding a
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texture, `pgmsg_stg02_1.t32`.
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Decoded independently here (600 fields, trailer identity holds):
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```
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S02_P1_Objective_00 'Shoot down all invading enemy fighters'
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S02_P1_Objective_01 'while watching out for attacks'
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S02_P1_Objective_02 'on the ACROPOLIS.'
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S02_P2_Objective_00 "Protect the Admiral's ship the CALIBAN"
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S02_P3_Objective_00 'Destroy the interstellar cruise missiles'
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```
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🔑 **Phase 1's objective is "shoot down all invading enemy fighters … while
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watching out for attacks on the ACROPOLIS"** — which matches the script exactly:
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the condition polls three enemy squadrons, and the escort's loss is the fail
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branch. And phase 2's is *"protect the CALIBAN until it enters the safe zone"* —
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positional, which is why no kill count appears there.
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## ✅ Structure
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* 528 of 534 objects hold **one** record; the six hangar files hold 63 each.
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* **624,440 named fields, 48 positional** (only the hangar `CATEGORY_DESC`).
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* A logical message is split across **fields**, not inside a string:
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`<ID>_<variant>_<line>` with `<line>` = `00`–`03`. **55 % of all fields are the
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empty string** — unused line slots.
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* **No control characters anywhere.** The only escape is a literal two-character
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`\n`, and only in block-text tables (hangar, challenge, dialog). Per-line
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mission tables never use it. `%s` appears 18 times, all in the hangar.
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* `[…]` is display text, not markup — the HUD marker labels `[HO]`, `[GA]`,
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`[TA]`, `[OB]`, `[WP]`. **That is where `[OB]` comes from**, the marker the
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earlier `REMAINING OB` work chased.
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* Records and fields are stored in **ascending key/tag order**, so lookup is a
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binary search — no roster scan needed.
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## ✅ Six languages: D/E/F/I/J/S = German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
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Same TOC key, same record key, same field tags; only values differ. Verified on
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`S02_P1_Objective_00`: English *"Shoot down all invading enemy fighters"*,
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Japanese *「母艦《アクロポリス》への攻撃に」*.
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D/E/F/I/S share identical field name-sets; **J differs in 78 of 86 objects**
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because it omits the trailing empty line slot.
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## 🔴 Not resolved
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* **Two keys** — `0x298964b2` (981 fields) and `0xee019650` (135) — appear in
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all six language paks and are in no manifest. They decode fine and are
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**byte-identical across all six**, i.e. Japanese-only `MSG_VOICE_*`
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transcripts that were never localised. Their names are unknown.
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* `GP_DIALOG`'s `eng` and `jpn` objects are byte-identical Japanese, and
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`GP_SAVE_LOAD`'s "English" table is half Japanese — shipped untranslated, not
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a decoding error.
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