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
n0.3	Color Formatter	(int8) Color ID 0x00 = Blue 0x01 = Purple 0x02 = Gray 0x03 = Yellow 0x04 = Light Red 0x05 = Green 0x06 = Pink 0x07 = Orange 0x08 = Light Yellow 0x09 = Light Blue 0x0A = Pink (again?) 0x0B = Dark Pink 0x0C = Lime 0x0D = Light Red (again?) 0x0E = Light Yellow (again?) 0x0F = Cyan 0x10 = Aqua 0x11 = Light Yellow (again?) 0x12 = Yellow (again?)* 0x13 = Light Purple 0x14+ = Defaults back to Blue 0xFF = Reset	(?) 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
n10.7	Number Formatter	(int8) Padding amount	(int8) ID (?)	(bool) Padding enabled	(?)
n10.14	Controller Button Icons (?)	(int8) Icon ID 0x00 = Up 0x01 = Down 0x02 = Left 0x03 = Right 0x04 = A 0x05 = B 0x06 = X 0x07 = Y 0x08 = L 0x09 = R 0x0A = ZL 0x0B = ZR 0x0C = + 0x0D = - 0x0E = LStick 0x0F = Up-Right 0x10 = Down-Right 0x11 = Down-Left 0x12 = Up-Left	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
n10.24	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 (?)