MSBT

The MSBT (Message Studio Binary Text) file format holds text entries for the game with some optional metadata tags mixed in.

This is a common format in many Nintendo games, and has not changed in Wonder, as such documentation on the format can be found in existing documentation such as the Mario Kart 8 Wiki MSBT page.

Tags

MSBT supports the insertion of arbitrary special "tags" in the middle of text entries, while such tags have a generic standard format which doesn't change and is parseable by any MSBT tool, the *meaning* attributed to such tags is game-specific. The below table aims to document the game-specific behavior of Wonder's MSBT tags.

VERY WIP!!! Yes this table is a mess right now it will be tidied up whenever just leave it be its just an info dump for now.

• Each Arg is 1 byte.

Tag	Description	Arg 1	Arg 2	Arg 3	Arg 4
n0.2	Font Resizer	(int16) Font size
n0.3	Color Formatter	(int8) Color ID 0x00 = Blue 0x01 = Purple 0x02 = Gray 0x03 = Yellow 0x04 = Mario Red 0x05 = Luigi Green 0x06 = Peach Pink 0x07 = Daisy Orange 0x08 = Toad Yellow 0x09 = Toad Blue 0x0A = Toadette Pink 0x0B = Nabbit Purple 0x0C = Yoshi Green 0x0D = Yoshi Red 0x0E = Yoshi Yellow 0x0F = Yoshi Light Blue 0x10 = Aqua 0x11 = Light Yellow 0x12 = Yellow (again?)* 0x13 = Light Purple 0x14+ = Defaults back to Blue (0x00) 0xFF = Reset * Nintendo uses both	(?) 0x00 = Change Color 0x01 = Vertical Spacing (?) + Arg 1 seems to have no effect with this 0x02+ = Nothing (?) + Arg 1 seems to have no effect 0xFF = Reset
n0.4	Dialog Sequence Divider (Only works in dialog boxes)
n1.0	Unknown (Possibly dialog text cooldown)	(?) = most commonly changed	(?)	(?)	(?)
n1.4	PictureFont.bffnt Icons	(int8) Icon Index 0x00 = 1-UP 0x01 = Wonder Seed (Blue) 0x02 = Wonder Seed (Orange) 0x03 = Wonder Seed (Cyan) 0x04 = Wonder Seed (Red) 0x05 = Wonder Seed (Yellow) 0x06 = Wonder Seed (Green) 0x07 = Wonder Seed (Purple) 0x08 = Wonder Seed (Orange) [Duplicate] 0x09 = Wonder Seed (White) 0x0A = Purple Coin 0x0B = Golden Goalpole Flag 0x0C = Medal 0x0D = Royal Seed (Blue) 0x0E = Royal Seed (Cyan) 0x0F = Royal Seed (Red) 0x10 = Royal Seed (Yellow) 0x11 = Royal Seed (Green) 0x12 = Royal Seed (Purple) 0x13 = Castle Bowser 0x14 = Bowser Jr. 0x15 = Difficulty Star (Yellow) 0x16 = Wonder Flower Coin 0x17 = Player Crown 0x18 = Wonder Flower	0xCD (?)
n5.1	Unknown	(?)	0xCD (?)
n5.2	Unknown	(?)	0xCD (?)
n10.4	Course name related (?)
n10.5	Badge related (?)
n10.7	Number Formatter	(int8) Padding amount	(int8) ID (?)	(bool) Padding enabled	(?)
n10.13	String Variable (?)	(int8) ID (?)	0xCD (?)
n10.14	Arrows & Controller Button Icons	(int8) Icon ID 0x00 = Up Arrow 0x01 = Down Arrow 0x02 = Left Arrow 0x03 = Right Arrow 0x04 = A 0x05 = B 0x06 = X 0x07 = Y 0x08 = L 0x09 = R 0x0A = ZL 0x0B = ZR 0x0C = + 0x0D = - 0x0E = LStick 0x0F = Up-Right Arrow 0x10 = Down-Right Arrow 0x11 = Down-Left Arrow 0x12 = Up-Left Arrow	0xCD (?)
n10.15	Mapped Controller Button Icons (?)	(int8) Icon ID 0x00 = B 0x01 = A 0x02 = X 0x03 = Y 0x04 = LStick/ZL 0x05 = Press R/Press ZR 0x06 = LStick/ZL (?)	Doesn't seem to do anything (?) Although Nintendo uses the value 0xCD consistently
n10.23	"AppearFlowerRordPropeller" (?) Inserts the string "Congratulations!"
n10.24	Action-mapped Button Icons	(int8) Action ID 0x00 = Dash 0x01 = Jump 0x02 = Item 0x03 = Greet 0x04 = Ground Pound 0x05 = Right Triggers (?) 0x06 = Left Triggers (?)	(int8) Controller Type 0x00 = Vertical Joycons (VLR) 0x01 = Horizontal Joycon (HLR) 0x02 = Same as 0x01 (?)