mercury-engine-data-structures 0.33.0

Construct file definitions for the Mercury Engine, the in-house game engine from MercurySteam

Mercury Engine Data Structures

Construct type definitions for Mercury Engine

Format	Samus Returns (Read)	Samus Returns (Write)	Dread (Read)	Dread (Write)	Purpose
BAPD	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Audio Preset (positional audio data)
BCCAM	✗	✗	✗	✗	Camera Animation (used exclusively for cutscene takes)
BCLGT	✗	✗	Missing	Missing	Lighting (?)
BCMDL	✗	✗	✓	✗	3D Models
BCPTL	✗	✗	✗	✗	Particle Effect
BCSKLA	✓	✓	✓	✓	Skeleton Animation
BCTEX	✗	✗	✓	✗	Texture File
BCURV	Missing	Missing	✗	✗	CURV (?)
BCUT	✗	✗	Missing	Missing	Related to cutscene files
BCWAV	✗	✗	Missing	Missing	Cafe/Citra Wave (common AAL audio format)
BFGRP	Missing	Missing	✗	✗	Sound WaveGroup (common AAL audio format)
BFONT	✗	✗	✗	✗	Font File
BFSAR	Missing	Missing	✗	✗	FSAR (?)
BFSTM	Missing	Missing	✗	✗	Common Switch audio format
BGSNDS	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	BackGround Sounds (?)
BLDEF	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Actor Lighting Definition
BLSND	✓	✓	✓	✓	Sounds (?)
BLUT	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	LookUp Table (used for ADAM animation)
BMBLS	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Blend Space
BMDEFS	✓	✓	✓	✓	Music Track Definitions & Properties
BMMAP	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	MiniMap
BMMDEF	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	MiniMap Definitions (?)
BMSAD	✓	✓	✓	✓	Actor Definitions
BMSAS	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Action Sets
BMSAT	✗	✗	✓	✓	Animation Tree
BMSBK	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Blocks, per Scenario
BMSCC	✓	✓	✓	✓	Collision Cameras
BMSCD	✓	✓	✓	✓	Collision Data / Geometry
BMSCP	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	GUI Composition
BMSCU	✗	✗	✓	✓	Cutscene Files
BMSEM	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Environment Music
BMSES	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Environment Sound
BMSEV	✗	✗	Missing	Missing	Environment Visuals (fx)
BMSLD	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Samus Returns scenario entity data
BMSLGROUP	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	SmartLink Group
BMSLINK	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	SmartLink (actor-specific navmesh paths)
BMSMD	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Menu Data (?)
BMSMSD	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Map Screen Data (?)
BMSNAV	✓	✓	✓	✓	Navigation Meshes
BMSND	✗	✗	Missing	Missing	Sound (?)
BMSSA	✗	✗	Missing	Missing	SSA (?)
BMSSD	✗	✗	✓	✓	Static Scenario Data (background dressing)
BMSSH	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	GUI Shape
BMSSK	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	GUI Skin
BMSSS	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	GUI SpriteSheet
BMSSTOC	Missing	Missing	✗	✗	Sound Table of Contents (links BFSAR sfx to BFGRP files)
BMTRE	✗	✗	✓	✓	Behavior Tree; entitity AI)
BMTUN	✓	✓	Missing	Missing	Tunables; exposed variables
BNVIB	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Vibration Data
BPSI	✓	✓	✓	✓	PackSet; dev leftovers
BPTDAT	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	PlayThrough Data
BPTDEF	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	PlayThrough Def
BREM	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Environmental Music Presets
BRES	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Environmental Sound Presets
BREV	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Environmental Visual Presets
BRFLD	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Dread Scenario Entity Data
BRSA	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	SubArea Setups
BRSPD	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Shot Audio Presets
BSHDAT	✗	✗	✗	✗	Shader Data
BSMAT	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Mesh Material
BTUNDA	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Tunable Data
BUCT	✓	✓	✓	✓	Font Glyph Data (?)
INI	Missing	Missing	✓	✓	Standard INI
LC	✓	✓	✓	✓	Lua Bytecode
PKG	✓	✓	✓	✓	Packaged Files
TOC	✓	✓	✓	✓	Table of Contents
TXT	✓	✓	✓	✓	UTF-16 Text File (?)
WEBM	Missing	Missing	✗	✗	Standard WEBM

Example Usage

# TODO

Colors for Text

Metroid Dread uses the following annotations in text to change color:

Code	Color
{c0}	White	(Default)
{c1}	Yellow
{c2}	Red
{c3}	Pink
{c4}	Green
{c5}	Blue
{c6}	UI Active	(Light blue)
{c7}	UI Inactive	(Dim blue)