Nintendo Badge Arcade/MSBT

Badge Arcade plays actions and formats text with what I like to call, “tags”. Tags are a collection of hex bytes, and these tags can be placed inside of text to color or scale text, and play animations on Badge Bunny.

These tags are used for the MSBT text inside of boss.sarc.

Tag Format

Begin Format Tag	Type	Begin Data	Data	End Data and Tag
`0E 00 00 00`	`03`	`00`	`02 00 78`	`00 / FF / CD`

Tags have a 4 byte section to begin the tag. The 3rd byte will be 02 if it is an action tag.

This is followed by what type of tag it is, if it’s a text format tag.

A 00 byte then follows to begin the tag data. This data continues until it hits either a 00, FF, or CD byte depending on what type of tag it is.

Exit Tags

Exit tags are simply normal tags that set the already customized values back to defaults. They are exactly like normal tags, and are provided for reference. Exit tags are not necessary if you do not want to unformat the text at any point during the message.

Exit Tag	Description
`0E 00 00 00 03 00 04 00 00 00 00 FF`	Changes text to black.
`0E 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 64 00`	Changes font scale to 64, the default.

If an exit tag is at the end of a message, an action tag MUST be provided, otherwise the game will read the exit tag as an action, which could cause problems.

Recommended Color Values

These values are recommended for text coloration, as it is what official text is colored as. These are not restrictions.

Color	Red	Green	Blue
Hex	`#FF0000`	`#009B00`	`#0000FF`
Note	Used for general highlighting, and game names in the Miiverse Gallery.	Rarely used, but mainly for the Miiverse Gallery.	Usually used for character names, and themes in the Miiverse Gallery.

Actions

Actions are animations that play on Badge Bunny when he says the current message. If there are multiple action tags, only the last one will play. If there is no action tag, a default nodding animation will play.

An incomplete list of the most common actions is below, with names describing them, and a GIF preview of the animation. They are in no particular order.

You can substitute these into the ACTION bytes of the action tag.

Action	Hex	Preview
Flames	`12 14 14`	https://i.imgur.com/XJOXecm.gif
Pounce	`11 13 13`	https://i.imgur.com/yF5kIhz.gif
Shocked	`00 30 2E`	https://i.imgur.com/yUopyml.gif
Disappointed	`00 34 32`	https://i.imgur.com/Gg71ww3.gif
Shake My Hand	`03 05 05`	https://i.imgur.com/0koci1z.gif
Chop Explain	`18 1F 1F`	https://i.imgur.com/usfbqcq.gif
Laugh (Small)	`00 20 20`	https://i.imgur.com/eLgzpfm.gif
Laugh (Slapping)	`19 21 21`	https://i.imgur.com/YR47psp.gif
Head Shake	`00 28 28`	https://i.imgur.com/OUbeKS5.gif
Clap Explain	`1D 27 27`	https://i.imgur.com/tCnWOdJ.gif
Awkward	`02 04 04`	https://i.imgur.com/jO6Mlfo.gif
Flushed	`00 39 37`	https://i.imgur.com/ue2vopA.gif
Shimmer	`00 1B 1B`	https://i.imgur.com/PotZ3LP.gif
Arms Crossed	`00 00 00`	https://i.imgur.com/G7VYCsu.gif
Clapping	`00 18 18`	https://i.imgur.com/fopecNR.gif
Right Hand Slap	`1E 2A 2A`	https://i.imgur.com/fnICcPG.gif
Music Note Burst	`17 1D 1D`	https://i.imgur.com/QXchrzO.gif

Examples

Below are raw hex blocks of example messages, and what they appear as.

Color Example

4E 00 6F 00 72 00 6D 00 61 00 6C 00 20 00 0E 00 
00 00 03 00 04 00 FF 00 00 FF 52 00 65 00 64 00 
20 00 0E 00 00 00 03 00 04 00 00 9B 00 FF 47 00 
72 00 65 00 65 00 6E 00 20 00 0E 00 00 00 03 00 
04 00 00 00 FF FF 42 00 6C 00 75 00 65 00 00 00

Font Scale Example

44 00 65 00 66 00 61 00 75 00 6C 00 74 00 20 00 
0E 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 74 00 53 00 69 00 7A 00 
65 00 20 00 37 00 34 00 20 00 0E 00 00 00 02 00 
02 00 54 00 53 00 69 00 7A 00 65 00 20 00 35 00 
34 00 20 00 0E 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 34 00 53 00 
69 00 7A 00 65 00 20 00 33 00 34 00 00 00

Tag	Description
`0E 00 00 00 03 00 04 00 RR GG BB FF`	Colors text using the RR GG BB bytes as RGB hex.
`0E 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 FS 00`	Changes the font scale using the FS byte.
`0E 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 AC TI ON CD`	Changes Badge Bunny’s action using the AC TI ON bytes.