Just to note, the majority of the scene in the US is console, and the majority of the scene in JP is arcade (it's still like second or third most popular JP arcade fighter, last I saw). It's just anything outside of those scenes are basically restricted to PC due to netplay necessity.
Yes, I was nice and dumb when I wrote that. :p
in game 33 character.
30 characters in the character selection menu + 2 boss + Powered Ciel
I hope to someday be able to open rofs archive
Yes, this matches up rather nicely with the table I made up while mucking around with the game:
00 - Sion
01 - Arc
02 - Ciel
03 - Akiha
04 - Maids
05 - Hisui
06 - Kohaku
07 - Tohno
08 - Miyako
09 - Wallachia
10 - Nero
11 - VSion
12 - Warc
13 - VAkiha
14 - Mech
15 - Nanaya
16 - G-Akiha
17 - Sacchin
18 - Len
19 - (Crash) (Powered Ciel goes here?)
20 - Neko Arc
21 - (Crash)
22 - Aoko
23 - WLen
24 - (Crash)
25 - Neko Arc Chaos
26 - (Crash)
27 - (Crash)
28 - Kouma
29 - SAkiha
30 - Roastbeef
31 - Roa
32 - Dust
33 - Ryougi
34 - Neko & Mech
35 - Koha & Mech
36 - (Crash)
37 - (Crash)
38 - (Crash)
39 - (Crash)
40 - (Crash)
51 - Archetype
255 - Random
I always wondered why there are gaps in it...
As for the ROFS, you have to figure out the key they used to encrypt the Table of Contents. The files could probably be extracted now via bruteforcing, however; none of the data on it is encrypted, just the TOC.