Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return/Technical information

This page contains technical information on the ROM data.

Video explanations of Tomba 2 files

A list of videos explaining Tomba 2 filetypes

Video title	Link	Description
Compression type in Tomba 2	https://youtu.be/f6Vh9b1Kiw8	Compression type used in Tomba 2
CVRAM files	https://youtu.be/iMHLHivs4mM	Understanding "Compressed VRAM"
Text data (TXTD)	https://youtu.be/Bbk2eXQPL68	Deciphering text files

Tomba 2 Extraction Script

File hierarchy

Below is a full hierarchy of files from Tomba! 2 US retail version:

• MAIN.EXE

• BIN Folder
  • 28 .BIN files contain asset placement data in every level

• MOVIE Folder
  • END.STR
  • LOGO.STR
  • OP.STR
• CD Folder
  • BGM.XA - music
  • DEMO.XA - demo sounds
  • SWDATA.BIN - pointers to?
  • TOMBA2.DAT - assets, level geometry, text files, background sprites, collision data, animations
  • TOMBA2.IDX - allocation table, tells game which chunks of data to load into RAM
  • TOMBA2.IMG - images
  • TOMBA2.SND - sounds
  • VOICE.XA - voices

• ZZZ.DAT - dummy file, common in PSX games to help disc reading