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Here you will find a number of in-depth guides detailing the inner-workings of the Crash Bandicoot game engine. These guides are not official in any way.

Start Here

• CD-ROM Directory Structure
• Entry point
• Game Loop
• Paging and Subsystem Initialization
• Subsystems

Reference

General

• Memory Map
• List of Level ID's
• List of Game Discs

Formats

Files

• NSD
• NSF
  • Chunk
  • Entry
• SYSTEM.CNF
• PSX.EXE (also SCUS_xxx.xx, SCES_xxx.xx, etc)
• WARP.BIN (also WARPSCUS.BIN, WARPSCES.BIN, etc)

Entries

Dec	Hex	Crash 1	Crash 2	Crash 3
1		SVTX			(no page)
2		TGEO			(no page)
3		WGEO			World
4		SLST			Sort List
5		TPAG			(no page)
7		ZDAT			Zone
11	Bh	GOOL			GOOL Executable
12	Ch	ADIO			(no page)
13	Dh	MIDI			(no page)
14	Eh	INST			(no page)
15	Fh	IMAG			(no page)
			VCOL		(no page)
17	11h	MDAT			(no page)
				RAWD	(no page)
18	12h	IPAL			(no page)
19	13h	PBAK			(no page)
20	14h	CVTX			(no page)
			SDIO		(no page)
21	15h		VIDO		(no page)

Structures

• Object

Other

• ISO 9660
• CD-XA (Mode 2 for CD tracks, used by the PlayStation)