TLK

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The TLK file is a GFF formatted file used to contain strings. They can be opened in the Toolset or the GFF Editor.

Keep in mind that all numbers are in little-endian format if you are looking at the raw file.

This may be incomplete, as I believe previous TLK files had timing info, etc as well.

Structure

A cursory glance at the file leads me to believe it's formatted something like this:

Header
String ID Section
String Data Section

Header

  • 104 bytes
    • 20 byte string describing the file, watch the 2 spaces between PC and TLK
      GFF V4.0PC  TLK V0.2
    • 80 bytes of other info I haven't figured out yet. May include info about the table, offsets
    • 4 bytes - number of entries in the table

String ID Section

Tightly packed.

  • 4 bytes
    • unsigned 32 bit integer - TALK_STRING_ID
  • 4 bytes
    • unsigned 32 bit integer - offset to string (appears to be an offset from 0x60)

String Data Section

  • 4 bytes
    • Unsigned 32 bit integer, little endian - number of characters in string.
    • The toolset seems to ignore this.
  • String in UTF-16, little endian.
    • Terminated by a NUL character (0x00) (twice, since it is UTF-16LE) and filled up (with 0xff) to be a multiple of 4 bytes.

See also

  • TLK (DA2) for information of the TLK format used in Dragon Age 2