Hacking fst.bin file structure

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As there isn't any documentation on fst.bin, I have written one for those who want to know.

The fst.bin file is divided into 2 parts, 1st is file entries & 2nd is filenames

file entries
each file entry is a 0xC segment
(00) (filename offset 3Bytes) (offset>>2 4Bytes) (filesize 4Bytes)
(01) (dir name offset 3Bytes) (parent entry # 4Bytes) (folder end entry 4Bytes)

1st byte
indicate whether it is a file or a folder, 00 for files and 01 for folders

2nd - 4th bytes
offset of the file/dir name from the start of the filenames segment (the starting address is mentioned below)

5th - 8th bytes
for files:
It is the same offset you can see in trucha signer, but divided by 4 (>>2)
(I dont know how to calculate whether a file is on the 1st or 2nd layer as there are more offsets involved)

for dirs:
It is the entry # of the parent directory, the 1st (ROOT) entry is entry #0
so all 1st level dirs has the value of 0 on this location

9th - 12th bytes
for files:
It is simply the size of the file.

for dirs:
It is the entry # of the last entry under the directory (including sub dirs & sub dir files)

ROOT entry
the fst.bin starts with the ROOT entry, it is slightly different from other dir entries

01 | 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00 | (Total number of entries 4Bytes)

as the ROOT entry does not have a name nor a parent entry
it always has the structure above
therefore the filenames starts from: Total number of entries * 0xC

filenames
The filenames of each entry ends with a 0x00

paddings
the fst.bin is padded with 0x00 to 4bytes multiple

(the presentation could be much better if this forum support tables)
 
You should really add this to the wiibrew Wiki. People have done stuff like this for opening.bnr and _update.inf, too. Just make a new page for fst.bin with that information.
 
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