NSMBU > Level FilesNSMBU levels are Yaz0 compressed SARC archives. They contain another SARC archive with the same name as the outer archive, and optionally some actor and tileset files. If an actor file isn't found in the level archive it is loaded from the 'actor' folder. Tileset files are loaded from the 'unit' folder if they aren't found in the level archive.
The internal SARC archive contains a 'course' folder with a course[X].bin file for each area and a course[X]_bgdatL[Y].bin file for each tile layer.
This file contains 15 block headers followed by the blocks themselves:
Offset Size Description
0x0 4 Offset (relative to start of file) 0x4 4 Size
Offset Size Description
0x0 32 Pa0 tileset 0x20 32 Pa1 tileset 0x40 32 Pa2 tileset 0x60 32 Pa3 tileset
Offset Size Description
0x0 4 Events activated when area is entered (0-31) 0x4 4 Events activated when zone is entered (32-63) 0x8 2 Flags0x1: Wrap across edges 0xA 2 Time limit 0xC 1 Unknown 0xD 1 Unknown 0xE 1 Unknown 0xF 1 Unknown 0x10 1 Start entrance 0x11 1 Unknown 0x12 1 Unknown 0x13 1 Start entrance for coin battle and boost rush mode 0x14 2 Checkpoint time 1 0x16 2 Checkpoint time 2
Offset Size Description
0x0 4 Y upper bound 0x4 4 Y lower bound 0x8 4 Y upper bound 2 0xC 4 Y lower bound 2 0x10 2 Zone bound id 0x12 2 Unknown 0x14 8 Unknown
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 Background id 0x2 2 X offset 0x4 2 Y offset 0x6 2 Unknown 0x8 16 Background name 0x18 1 Unknown 0x19 1 Unknown 0x1A 1 Unknown 0x1B 1 Unknown
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 X position 0x2 2 Y position 0x4 2 Camera offset x 0x6 2 Camera offset y 0x8 1 Entrance id 0x9 1 Destination area 0xA 1 Destination entrance 0xB 1 Type 0xC 1 Players that spawn at this entrance (one bit for each player) 0xD 1 Zone id 0xE 1 Padding 0xF 1 Distance between players (0, 1 or 2) 0x10 2 Flags0x1: Face left0x8: Non-enterable 0x12 1 Baby yoshi entrance 0x13 1 Coin edit entrance order 0x14 1 Path id 0x15 1 Path node index 0x16 1 Transition type 0x17 1 Padding
The screen fades out with the transition mode of the source entrance, and fades in with the transition mode of the destination entrance.
Transition Mode Description
0 Default 1 Fade 2 Mario face 3 Circle towards center 4 Bowser face 5 Circle towards entrance 6 Waves (always down) 7 Waves (down on fadeout, up on fadein) 8 Waves (up on fadeout, down on fadein) 9 Mushroom 11 No transition
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 Sprite id 0x2 2 X position 0x4 2 Y position 0x6 2 Event ids 0x8 4 Actor settings 0xC 4 Actor settings 0x10 1 Zone id 0x11 1 Layer id 0x12 1 Link id (sometimes used to link sprites with other sprites) 0x13 1 Movement id 0x14 1 Specifies the initial state of some sprites (swoopers and podoboos use this field for example) 0x15 3 Padding
This block contains one entry for each kind of sprite in the area. This allows the game to preload their actor files.
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 Sprite id 0x2 2 Padding
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 X position 0x2 2 Y position 0x4 2 Width 0x6 2 Height 0x8 2 Theme 0xA 2 Unknown 0xC 1 Zone id 0xD 1 Zone bound id 0xE 1 Unknown 0xF 1 Zoom 0x10 1 Unknown 0x11 1 Visibility 0x12 1 Background id 0x13 1 Unknown 0x14 1 Unknown 0x15 1 Unknown 0x16 1 Music id 0x17 1 Unknown 0x18 1 Unknown 0x19 1 Unknown 0x1A 2 Unknown
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 X position 0x2 2 Y position 0x4 2 Width 0x6 2 Height 0x8 1 Location id 0x9 3 Padding
Offset Size Description
0x0 1 Path id 0x1 1 Unknown 0x2 2 Start node index 0x4 2 Number of nodes 0x6 2 Unknown 0x8 4 Unknown
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 X position 0x2 2 Y position 0x4 4 Speed (float) 0x8 4 Acceleration (float) 0xC 2 Delay 0xE 2 Unknown 0x10 1 Unknown 0x11 1 Unknown 0x12 1 Unknown 0x13 1 Unknown
This file contains an instance of the following struct for each block of tiles:
Offset Size Description
0x0 2 Type: 0xXYYY. X is the tileset id, Y is the tile object index . 0x7FFF is ignored, 0xFFFF marks the end of the file 0x2 2 X position 0x4 2 Y position 0x6 2 Width 0x8 2 Height 0xA 1 Type override 0xB 1 Padding 0xC 4 Padding
When this value is non-zero, the tile is transformed to one of the following tiles, regardless of its real type.
Value Tile type
0 0x430 1 0x830 2 0xC30 3 0x1030 4 0x1430 5 0x1830 6 0x1C30 7 0x2030 8 0x2430 9 0x2830 10 0x2C30 11 0x3430 12 0x31 13 0x431 14 0x831 15 0xC31 16 0x1031 17 0x1431 18 0x1831 19 0x1C31 20 0x2031 21 0x2431 22 0x2831 23 0x2C31