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This page documents MediEvil saved game data formats.

A PlayStation Memory Card data block consists of 64 frames.

This frame is the header for a block of PS1 saved data.

Name	Offset	Value	Meaning
Magic	0x0	SC	Signature for all PS1 saved game data.
Icon flag	0x2	11	This means the icon for the saved game consists of a single image.
Number of blocks	0x3	1	How many blocks the save will take up on a memory card.
Title	0x4	ＭｅｄｉＥｖｉｌ	Name of the saved game in Shift JIS format.
Icon colour palette	0x96		Saved game icon colour palette.

This frame is used to store a PS1 saved game icon:

These frames are reserved for additional images in case the icon is meant to be animated, but are unused by MediEvil.

These frames contain the actual MediEvil saved game data.

The header is 12 bytes long.

Name	Offset	Value	Meaning
Magic	0x0	60SM	Signature for MediEvil saved game data.
Saved Games	0x4	0-2	The number of saved games.

The file can hold a maximum of three saved games. Each saved game is 1360 bytes long.

Name	Offset	Value	Meaning
Checksum	0x0	Number	Used to verify save game integrity. Uses the Checksum-16 algorithm.
Save game number	0x6	Number	Number of times the game has been saved.
Time played	0x1C	Number	Time the player has played the game for. Displayed on the tombstones in the main menu.

These are unused.

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 | Signature for all PS1 saved game data.
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-| '''Icon Flag'''
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 | This means the icon for the saved game consists of a single image.
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-| '''Block Number'''
+| '''Number of blocks'''
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 | Name of the saved game in Shift JIS format.
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-| '''Icon Colour Palette'''
+| '''Icon colour palette'''
 | 0x96
 | [[File:MediEvil1998-MemoryCardIconPalette.png]]