About this project

This project contains my notes on the file formats used by Lunar: Silver Star Story, the 32-bit remake of Studio Alex/Game Arts's game Lunar: The Silver Star. I've tried to cover as many of the ports as possible, though I'm not covering the original Sega CD version or the other two remakes.

This project only covers this game, although the other two Saturn Lunar games contain similar data formats. I have a separate repository with my notes on Magical School Lunar!.

Versions

Lunar: Silver Star Story was released for a very large number of platforms, with major file format differences between even superficially similar games.

Saturn


Title	Lunar: Silver Star Story
Platform	Sega Saturn
Release date	October 10, 1996
Media	CD-ROM (1 disc)
Region	Japan
Langauge	Japanese


Title	Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Platform	Sega Saturn
Release date	July 4, 1997
Media	CD-ROM (1 disc)
Region	Japan
Langauge	Japanese
Requirements	Video CD card

PlayStation


Title	Lunar: Silver Star Story
Platform	Sony PlayStation
Release date	May 28, 1998 (rereleased April 28, 1999)
Media	CD-ROM (2 discs)
Region	Japan
Langauge	Japanese


Title	Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Platform	Sony PlayStation
Release date	May 28, 1999 (rereleased January, 2001)
Media	CD-ROM (2 discs)
Region	North America
Langauge	English

Windows


Title	Lunar: Silver Star Story
Platform	Windows PC
Release date	December, 1999
Media	CD-ROM (2 discs)
Region	Japan
Langauge	Japanese

iOS


Title	Lunar: Silver Star Story Touch
Platform	iOS
Release date	September 20, 2012
Media	App Store
Region	Worldwide
Langauge	English, Japanese

Tools

Suppertails66, and myself have written a few tools to help work with the game's data formats.

cinerepak - Remux Sega FILM Cinepak files (allows inserting English audio)
theSegSat - Tile viewer and editor for fonts
wdtools - Various tools for dealing with text and other data files