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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door's root file structure, the game's mail-pictures, crystal star map, save select menu, and pause menu graphics is stored in root/w with one subfolder. Much like the msg folder, the subfolder uses a country code.

The tpl format is a compressed file format that contains .tga files, which can be opened by most graphical editing programs.

root/w/$C

mail.tpl

Graphics for the pictures included in the mail letters.

map.tpl

There are eight map.tpl files, named from “map0.tpl”, “map1.tpl” and so on. They contain the graphic for the crystal star map, which changes in design as more crystal stars are obtained in-game.

name.tpl

Save select menu graphics.

win.tpl

Pause menu graphics.