BREFF and BREFT appears always as pair and always in a subdirectory of ./effect/. BREFF contains the control information and BREFT the graphic and texture data. A track can have up to 8 different effects, adding more will cause the game to crash.
File Format
The file begins with the header of 0x10 bytes. The structure is the same as for BRRES files:
| Offset |
Size |
Type |
Description
|
| 0x00 |
0x04 |
String |
File identifier: String "REFF" for BREFF or "REFT" for BREFT in ASCII.
|
| 0x04 |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Byte order mark (BOM): The value is always 0xFEFF. If value 0xFFFE is read, then the false endian is used. Mario Kart Wii uses nearly always big endian (bytes 0xFE,0xFF).
|
| 0x06 |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Version number of file format. Value 9 for all files in MKW.
|
| 0x08 |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Length of the file in bytes.
|
| 0x0C |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Size of the header (usually 0x10).
|
| 0x0E |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Number of blocks. Always 1 for all files in MKW.
|
| Offset |
Size |
Type |
Description
|
| 0x00 |
0x04 |
String |
File identifier: String REFF for BREFF or REFT for BREFT in ASCII.
|
| 0x04 |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Length of section in bytes excluding this header.
|
| Offset |
Size |
Type |
Description
|
| 0x00 |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Section header size.
|
| 0x04 |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Pointer to previous project. Always 0.
|
| 0x08 |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Pointer to next project. Always 0.
|
| 0x0C |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
L = Length of NULL-terminated string.
|
| 0x0E |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Padding.
|
| 0x10 |
L |
String |
NULL-terminated ASCII name of project.
|
Subfile Table
This section is located right after Project Header.
| Offset |
Size |
Type |
Description
|
| 0x00 |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Size of the table.
|
| 0x04 |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Number of entries.
|
| 0x06 |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
Padding.
|
| 0x08 |
Start of first subfile item
|
Subfile Table Item
Items are placed one after another and they are not aligned.
| Offset |
Size |
Type |
Description
|
| 0x00 |
0x02 |
UInt16 |
L = Length of NULL-terminated name.
|
| 0x02 |
L |
String |
NULL-terminated ASCII name of object.
|
| 0x02 + L |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Offset of data, relative to the end of the Project Header / Start of Subfile Table.
|
| 0x06 + L |
0x04 |
UInt32 |
Size of data in bytes. Add 0x20 for BREFT files.
|
Content
The Subfile Item List points to the specific data for BREFF or BREFT. Continue reading BREFF (File Format) or BREFT (File Format).