All the fields in the IP0000.BIN are plain ASCII, padded with spaces to their full length.

Offset Contents 000-00F Hardware ID (always "SEGA SEGAKATANA ") 010-01F Maker ID (always "SEGA ENTERPRISES") 020-02F Device Information (see below) 030-037 Area Symbols (see below) 038-03F Peripherals (see below) 040-049 Product number ("HDR-nnnn" etc.) 04A-04F Product version 050-05F Release date (YYYYMMDD) 060-06F Boot filename (usually "1ST_READ.BIN") 070-07F Name of the company that produced the disc 080-0FF Name of the software

The Device Information field begins with a four digit hexadecimal number, which is a CRC on the Product number and Product version fields (16 bytes). Then comes the string " GD-ROM", and finally an indication of how many discs this software uses, and which of these discs that this is. This is indicated by two positive numbers separated with a slash. So if this is the second disc of three, the Device Information string might be "8B40 GD-ROM2/3  ".

The CRC calculation algorithm is as follows (C code):

int calcCRC(const unsigned char *buf, int size)
{
  int i, c, n = 0xffff;
  for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
  {
    n ^= (buf[i]<<8);
    for (c = 0; c < 8; c++)
      if (n & 0x8000)
	n = (n << 1) ^ 4129;
      else
	n = (n << 1);
  }
  return n & 0xffff;
}

The Area Symbols string consists of eight characters, which are either space or a specific letter. Each of these represent a geographical region in which the disc is designed to work. So far, only the first three are assigned. These are Japan (and the rest of East Asia), USA + Canada, and Europe, respectively. If the character for a particular region is a space, the disc will not be playable in that region. If it contains the correct region character, it will be. The region characters for the first three regions are J, U, and E, respectively. So a disc only playable in Europe would have an Area Symbols string of "  E     ".

The Device Information field is a 28 bit long bitfield represented by a 7 digit hexadecimal number. The meaning of the individual bits in each digit is given below:

<A><-------B------> <C->
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^    ^    ^
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||||    |    |
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||||    |    +----- Uses Windows CE
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||||    |
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||||    +-----  VGA box support
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||||
|||| |||| |||| |||| |||+----- Other expansions
|||| |||| |||| |||| ||+----- Puru Puru pack
|||| |||| |||| |||| |+----- Mike device
|||| |||| |||| |||| +----- Memory card
|||| |||| |||| |||+------ Start + A + B + Directions
|||| |||| |||| ||+------ C button
|||| |||| |||| |+------ D button
|||| |||| |||| +------ X button
|||| |||| |||+------- Y button
|||| |||| ||+------- Z button
|||| |||| |+------- Expanded direction buttons
|||| |||| +------- Analog R trigger
|||| |||+-------- Analog L trigger
|||| ||+-------- Analog horizontal controller
|||| |+-------- Analog vertical controller
|||| +-------- Expanded analog horizontal
|||+--------- Expanded analog vertical
||+--------- Gun
|+--------- Keyboard
+--------- Mouse