This is a direct conversion of this Google Document. It needs to be cleaned up. -
This document is a reference, please direct any questions about modding the game to smashboards, r/smashbros, etc
The past year has seen no constructive additions to this document so I’m making the decision to close all editing. If you want to add anything, comment or send me a message describing what edit you’d like to make and I’ll give you editing rights.
Note: the files and naming scheme used throughout this document are based on the tool wit
The equivalents for output from gcr are put in where applicable
sys <&&systemdata>
- main.dol - main executable, where most of the code and game logic resides
- boot.bin - GAMEID (GALE01), name, and description are stored here
- also runtime offsets and sizes of important files like main.dol and fst.bin, which is important to know if you significantly change the size of either of those
- bi2.bin - secondary boot, not much to say.
- apploader.img - nintendo official apploader, nothing (that I can think of) has come out of hacking it
- fst.bin - file system table, table of all the files in /files, and their names
- also holds offsets and sizes, so if you significantly change a file size, it has to be represented in the fst.bin
Some more info can be found at YAGCD:Ch13 DVD Structure
Most gamecube iso rebuilders will fix fst.bin and boot.bin automagically, and also allow you to change GAMEID, name and description
files
note: .usd is just .dat but with extra localization info (ie, specific to ‘murica)
| Filename | Description | Comment |
| Ty*.dat | Toy File |
list them at your discretion Contains trophies but it also contains items in an unsorted manner (such as TyFood) |
| Mn*.dat | Menu file |
(ExtAll) all menus? (MaAll) Main Menu (Namedef) name creation (SlChr) Select Character, CSS (SlMap) Select Map, SSS |
| Mv*.mth | “Movie” file | “Congratulations” |
| Pl*.dat | Player file |
Character information: (Bo) Boy; Male Wireframe (Ca) C.Falcon (Ch) Crazy Hand (Cl) CLink, Young Link (Co) Common (Dk) Donkey Kong (Dr) Dr.Mario (Fc) Falco (Fe) Fire Emblem, Roy (Fx) Fox (Gk) GigaKoopa, GigaBowser, (Gl) Girl; Female Wireframe (Gn) Ganondorf (Gw) Game n Watch (Kb) Kirby (Kp) Koopa, Bowser (Lg) Luigi (Lk) Link (Mh) Master Hand (Mr) Mario? (Ms) Mars?, Marth (Mt) Mewtwo (Nn) Nana, Ice Climbers (Ns) Ness (Pc) Pichu (Pe) Peach (Pk) Pikachu (Pp) Popo, Ice Climbers (Pr) Purin, JigglyPuff (Sb) SandBag (Sk) Sheik (Ss) Samus (Sh) (Ys) Yoshi (Zd) Zelda |
| Pl*{Aq,Bk,Bu,Gr,Gy,La,Nr,Or,Pi,Re,Wh,Ye}.dat | Costume specific player file (otherwise, the color) |
(Aq) Aqua (Bk) Black (Bu) Blue (Gr) Green (Gy) Gray (La) Lavender (Nr) Neutral (Or) Orange (Pi) Pink (Re) Red (Wh) White (Ye) Yellow |
| Pl*AJ.dat | Animation Joint file | |
| Gr*.dat | “Ground(?)” stage file |
(GrBB) Big Blue (GrCn) Corneria (GrCs) Princess Peach's Castle (GrEF1) Goomba Trophy Stage (GrEF2) Entei Trophy Stage (GrEF3) Mask Trophy Stage (GrFs) Fourside (GrFz) Flat Zone (GrGb) Great Bay (Termina) (GrGd) Garden (Kongo Jungle) (GrGr) Green Greens (GrHe) Heal (All-Star) (GrHr) Homerun Contest (GrI1) Mushroom Kingdom (GrI2) Mushroom Kingdom II (GrIm) Icicle Mountain (GrIz) Izumi, Fountain of Dreams (GrKg) Kongo Jungle (GrKr) Kraid, Brinstar Depths (GrMc) Mute City (GrNBa) Battlefield (GrNBr) F-Zero adventure mode stage (GrNFg) Figure Get, Falling trophy stage (GrNKr) Mushroom Kingdom adventure mode stage (GrNLa) Final Destination (GrNPo) Pushon? (GrNSr) Shrine Route, Hyrule Castle chasm, adv. mode stage (GrNZr) Zebes Route, Brinstar adv mode (GrOk) Kongo Jungle N64 (GrOp) Dream Land N64 (GrOt) Onett (GrOy) Yoshi's Story N64 (GrPs) Pokemon Stadium (GrPs1) Pokemon Stadium, Fire (GrPs2) Pokemon Stadium, Grass (GrPs3) Pokemon Stadium, Water (GrPs4) Pokemon Stadium, Rock (GrPu) Pura, Poke Floats (GrRc) Rainbow Cruise (GrSh) Shrine, Hyrule Temple (GrSt) Yoshi's Story (GrTe) "TEST" (GrVe) Venom (GrYt) Yoshi's Island (GrZe) Brinstar, Planet Zebes |
| GrT*.dat | Target test stages | see Pl* for character prefixes. |
| Gm*.dat, Gm*.thp | Game? Scene data, videos |
Don’t know about .dat, but there are video files for the different single player modes (Kumite) multi-man melee (Gover) Game Over screen (Pause) Pause interface (TtAll).{ukd,usd} Contains the Smash title |
| GmRstM*.dat | Demo Result Motion | one for every playable character |
| Ef*.dat | “Effect” data |
Lot of projectiles, and kirby stuff (CoData) Common effects such as smoke & dust |
| If*.dat | Interface? no idea |
(All) Contains the damage percent images and character icons (HrRecord) Home Run Record, (Prize) |
| Ir*.dat | related to demo? | |
| Lb*.dat | Library data |
(Ad) lbAudioLoadData (Bf) lbBgFlashColAnimData (McGame) memory card game data (McSnap) memory card (Rb) lbRumbleData (Rf) lbReferenceData |
| Nt*.dat | ||
| Sd*.dat | Text Data | (SlChr) holds the" Random Stage Select" stage names |
| Vi*.dat | “Visual” | ”visual...” I think it might be the little videos that play when you leave the main menu on too long, or it’s for the tutorial |
| opening.bnr | little image and info | Shows in the gamecube/wii/dolphin menu |
| usa.ini | empty file | specific to US NTSC? |
| DbCo.dat | Debug Common? | ”dbLoadCommonData” |
| ItCo.dat | Item Common | “itmCommonFFlower” |
| PdPm.dat | Player Data Player Manager? | ”plLoadCommonData” |
| SmSt.dat | Sound Manager? |
Related to sound FX; ”smSoundTestLoadData” |
| TmBox.dat | Tournament Box | ”tournament_box[2,3,4]_array” |
files/audio
lots of audio files
| Filename | Song Title/Stage |
| 1p_qk.hps | Healing Room Theme (all star mode) |
| akaneia.hps | Fire Emblem Theme (alt theme on Temple) |
| balloon.hps | Fighter Theme (alt theme on Icicle Mountain) |
| bigblue.hps | Big Blue |
| castle.hps | Peach’s Castle Theme |
| continue.hps | Continue? clip |
| corneria.hps | Corneria |
| docmari.hps | Dr.Mario’s theme |
| ending.hps | Plays in the short cutscene after you complete a 1-Player mode |
| famidemo.hps | Unknown (related to the 15-minute special movie?) |
| ff_1p01.hps | Classic Mode Stage Complete |
| ff_1p02.hps | Classic Mode Stage Complete |
| ff_bad.hps | Unused “success” theme |
| ff_good.hps | Unused “success” theme |
| ff_.dhps | Character Fanfares |
| ff_step{1,2,3}.hps | Unused fanfares |
| flatzone.hps | Flat Zone |
| fourside.hps | Fourside |
| gameover.hps | Game Over jingle |
| garden.hps | Kongo Jungle Melee |
| greatbay.hps | Great Bay |
| greens.hps | Green Greens |
| howto.hps and howto_s.hps | How to Play themes. One plays on the title screen after idling and one plays when How to Play is selected in the data files. |
| hyaku.hps | Multi-Man Melee 1 theme (also alt on Battlefield) |
| hyaku2.hps | Multi-Man Melee 2 theme (also alt on Final Destination) |
| icemt.hps | Ice Mountain |
| inis1_01.hps | Mushroom Kingdom I |
| inis2_01.hps | Mushroom Kingdom II |
| inis1_02.hps and inis2_02.hps | These tracks play on Kingdom I and II when there is either 30 seconds of time left or a player is on their last stock. |
| intro_es.hps | Classic Mode Intro jingle |
| intro_nm.hps | Adventure Mode Intro jingle |
| item_h.hps | Hammer music (only used in sound test) |
| item_s.hps | Starman music (only used in sound test) |
| izumi.hps | Fountain of Dreams |
| kongo.hps | Jungle Japes |
| kraid.hps | Brinstar Depths |
| menu01.hps and menu3.hps | The Menu music. menu01 is the main one. |
| menu02.hps | Trophy Collector (and trophy viewing?) stage theme. Unsure why it’s called menu02 (possibly links to the fact that this theme is a menu theme in smash 4) Edit: Alternate Menu theme that plays randomly when playing |
| mrider.hps | Mach Rider theme (alt on Big Blue) |
| mutecity.hps | Mute City |
| old_dk.hps | Kongo Jungle 64 |
| old_kb.hps | Dream Land 64 |
| old_ys.hps | Yoshi’s Island 64 |
| onetto.hps | Onett |
| onetto2.hps | Mother 2 Theme (alt on Onett) |
| opening.hps | The audio that goes with MvOpen.mth (the game’s intro sequence) |
| pokesta.hps | Battle Theme (alt on Pokemon Stadium) |
| pstadium.hps | Pokemon Stadium |
| pura.hps | Poke Floats |
| rcruise.hps | Rainbow Cruise |
| s_info{1,2,3}.hps and s_new{1,2}.hps | An achievement! Which one plays depends on what kind of achievment (trophy, character, other) |
| s_newcom.hps | Challenger Approaching jingle |
| s_select.hps | Unused. This is a copy of item_h.hps |
| saria.hps | Saria’s Theme (alt on Great Bay) |
| shrine.hps | Temple |
| siren.hps | “Warning Siren” Plays on the second stage of Brinstar (adventure mode) |
| smari3.hps | Super Mario Bros 3 (alt on Yoshi’s Island Melee) |
| sp_end.hps | Final Destination |
| sp_giga.hps | Giga Bowser theme (adventure mode - Final Destination and event 51) |
| sp_metal.hps | Metal Theme (adventure mode - Battlefield and classic stage 11) |
| sp_zako.hps | Battlefield |
| swm_15min.hps | Audio attributed to MvOmake15.mth (the Special Movie)2 |
| target.hps | Break the Targets theme. |
| venom.hps | Venom |
| vl_*.hps | Adventure mode audio. Mainly for cutscenes. |
| vs_hyou1.hps and vs_hyou2.hps | Tournament Mode themes. |
| yorster.hps | Yoshi’s Island Melee |
| ystory.hps | Yoshi’s Story |
| zebes.hps | Brinstar |
files/audio/us
lots of localization audio files
| Filename | Description |
| nr_name.ssm | Announcer voicing character names on character select screen. |