EvilEngine/Sound Format
This page contains information on how sounds and music are stored in the games.
Sounds are usually contained in SND and SNDS assets, with the SNDI asset containing information about them. Each HOP file (sometimes the HIP) contains multiple SND and SNDS assets and one single SNDI asset. There doesn't seem to be an internal difference between SND and SNDS other than being stored as different assets; sound effects are usually in SND and voice lines and music are usually in SNDS.
SND/SNDS Format
| SND/SNDS | |
|---|---|
| Sound/Streaming Sound | |
| Type | Binary |
| Games used | The Incredibles |
GameCube
In Scooby-Doo: Night of 100 Frights and Spongebob Squarepants: Battle For Bikini Bottom, SND and SNDS are a GameCube DSP audio file stripped of its 0x60 byte header: all of a level's sound headers are kept separate in the single SNDI asset.
In The Spongebob Squarepants Movie Game, The Incredibles and Rise of the Underminer, the SND and SNDS assets are empty, and instead, all of the sounds are contained entirely in the SNDI asset.
Xbox
The audio format on the Xbox version of all 5 games is either raw IMA ADPCM, or raw 16-bit Linear PCM stripped of its *.wav header: all of a level's sound headers are kept separate in the single SNDI asset.
Playstation 2
The audio format on the PS2 version of all 5 games is a PS2 VAG sound file stripped of its 0x30 byte header: all of a level's sound headers are kept separate in the single SNDI asset.
SNDI Format
| SNDI | |
|---|---|
| Sound Info | |
| Type | Binary |
| Games used | The Incredibles |
GameCube (Night of 100 Frights/Battle For Bikini Bottom)
The SNDI has a 0xC or 0x10 byte header:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | int | amount of SND | Amound of headers for SND assets. |
| 0x04 | byte[4] | null | Padding |
| 0x08 | int | amount of SNDS | Amound of headers for SNDS assets. |
| 0x0C | int | amount of cutscene SNDS | Amound of headers for SNDS assets used in cutscenes. BFBB only. |
After that, there are three consecutive arrays of SNDI entries: one for the SND, one for the SNDS and one for the cutscene SNDS. Each SNDI entry is 0x64 bytes long and follows this structure:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | byte[0x60] | Sound Header | Header of GameCube DSP sound file. |
| 0x60 | AssetID | Sound Asset ID | Asset ID of corresponding SND or SNDS asset. |
GameCube (Movie Game/Incredibles/Rise of the Underminer)
In those games, the SNDI contains not only the sound headers but also the entirety of the sound files themselves.
SNDI Header
The SNDI itself has a 0x20 byte header:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | AssetID | this | Asset ID of this asset |
| 0x04 | int | footerOffset | Offset relative to end of this header to the Footer section. Subtract 0x20 from this to get the absolute offset of the Footer. |
| 0x08 | byte[0x10] | ? | Usually all 0s |
| 0x18 | short | soundCount | Total amount of sounds in SNDI |
| 0x1A | short | firstFSB3soundCount | Amount of sounds in the first FSB3 of the SNDI |
| 0x1C | short | otherFSB3soundCount | Amount of sounds combining all FSB3s which are not the first of the SNDI |
| 0x1E | short | FSB3count | Amount of FSB3 files |
All sounds are contained inside FSB3 files. Each FSB3 can contain one or multiple sounds; in all files analyzed so far, most of the sounds are contained in the first FSB3 file, with each subsequent file containing only one. This is the structure of a FSB3 file:
FSB3 Header
This is the header of a FSB3 file. There is one per FSB3 in the SNDI.
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | char[4] | magic | "FSB3" in ASCII |
| 0x04 | int | numSamples | Amount of samples in the FSB3. Each sample is a sound. However, unlike most FSB3 files in other games, here only one sample header is used for all sounds, which might be confusing, and a different, custom header is used for individual sounds. |
| 0x08 | int | totalHeadersSize | Total size of the single sample header + each individual sound header. This is always equal to (72 + 0x36 * numSamples). |
| 0x0C | int | totalDataSize | Total size of all sound data combining all sound entries. |
| 0x10 | int | version | Always 196609. |
| 0x14 | int | mode | Always 2. |
After the FSB3 header, there is one sample header.
Sample Header
This is the header of a FSB3 sample. There is one per FSB3 in the SNDI, immediately after the FSB3 header above.
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | short | size | Always 126 |
| 0x02 | char[30] | soundName | Sample name in ASCII. Since each sample actually refers to multiple sounds and this is usually different from the actual sound names, this is likely leftover data and unused. |
| 0x20 | int | lengthSamples | Misleading name; this is actually the amount of samples on the uncompressed data for the first sound only. The first sound in the list will have 0 as its own lengthSamples. |
| 0x24 | int | lengthCompressedBytes | Misleading name; this is actually the length of the compressed sound data in bytes for the first sound only. The first sound in the list will have 0 as its own lengthCompressedBytes. |
| 0x28 | int | loopStart | Start of loop in sample. Only refers to first sound in list. This is probably unused as each sound would require its own loopStart. |
| 0x2C | int | loopEnd | End of loop in sample. Only refers to first sound in list. This is probably unused as each sound would require its own loopEnd. |
| 0x30 | int | sampleHeaderMode | Always 33558561 |
| 0x34 | int | deffreq | Always 32000 |
| 0x38 | short | defvol | Always 255 |
| 0x3A | short | defpan | Always 128 |
| 0x3C | short | defpri | Always 255 |
| 0x3E | short | numchannels | Always 1 |
| 0x40 | float | minDistance | Always 1.0 |
| 0x44 | float | maxDistance | Always 1000000.0 |
Sound Header
After the sample header, there are sound headers. This header repeats numSamples times (one for each sound). This header is 0x36 bytes long, an unusual length since it's not aligned to 4 bytes.
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | int | lengthSamples | Length of uncompressed samples in sound. This is 0 for the first sound in the list, as the value is set in the sample header above, but for each subsequent sound it's the actual value. |
| 0x04 | int | lengthCompressedBytes | Length of bytes in compressed data. This is 0 for the first sound in the list, as the value is set in the sample header above, but for each subsequent sound it's the actual value. |
| 0x08 | uint[8] | unknown | 8 ints with unknown function. |
| 0x28 | byte[14] | unknown | 14 bytes with unknown function. |
Adding the lengthCompressedBytes in each Sound Header entry will result in the totalDataSize value of the FSB3 header.
Sound Data
After numSamples occurrences of the Sound Header, we have the compressed sound data. The total length of this is set in the FSB3 Header (totalDataSize), with each sound in order.
After the sound data for the entire FSB3 file ends, we usually have the next FSB3 file, or if it's the last one, then we've reached the Footer section.
This is a section which occurs at the end of the file. The offset to this is set in the SNDI header. This is its structure:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | int[FSB3count] | FSB3offsets | An array of ints. The amount of ints is the same amount of FSB3 files, as set in the SNDI header. Each int is an offset to the start of each FSB3 file, relative to the end of the header. Subtract 0x20 from each value to get the absolute offset of the file. |
After this, we have soundCount times the following structure, which refers to each sound in the SNDI:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | Asset ID | SND/SNDS | Asset ID of sound. |
| 0x04 | byte | unknown | |
| 0x05 | byte | index | Zero-based index of sound inside its FSB3 file. |
| 0x06 | byte | fileIndex | Zero-based index of the FSB3 file containing this sound (index to the FSB3offsets array). |
| 0x07 | byte | unknown |
Xbox
The SNDI has a 0xC byte header:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | int | amount of SND | Amound of headers for SND assets. |
| 0x04 | int | amount of SNDS | Amound of headers for SNDS assets. |
| 0x08 | int | amount of cutscene SNDS | Amound of headers for SNDS assets used in cutscenes. |
After that, there are three consecutive arrays of SNDI entries: one for the SND, one for the SNDS and one for the cutscene SNDS. Each SNDI entry is 0x2C bytes long and follows this structure:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | short | fmtId | 0x0069 if Xbox ADPCM, 0x0001 if Linear PCM. |
| 0x02 | short | fmtChannels | Number of audio Channels. |
| 0x04 | int | fmtSampleRate | Sampling rate. Xbox ADPCM data plays at this rate multipled by 65/64. |
| 0x08 | int | fmtBytesPerSecond | Used as an estimate for bytes per second. Can be ignored. |
| 0x0C | short | fmtBlockAlignment | Block Size. 0x0024 for Xbox ADPCM data. |
| 0x0E | short | fmtBitsPerSample | Number of bits used per sample. 0x0004 if Xbox ADPCM, 0x0000 if Linear PCM. |
| 0x10 | short | fmtExtBytes | Will always be 0x0002 if Xbox ADPCM. 0x0000 if Linear PCM. |
| 0x12 | short | fmtExtData | ADPCM nibbles per block. Normally 0x0040 if Xbox APCM. 0x0000 if Linear PCM. |
| 0x14 | int | dataSize | Size of the corresponding SND or SNDS asset. |
| 0x18 | AssetID | Sound Asset ID | Asset ID of corresponding SND or SNDS asset. |
| 0x1C | byte[16] | Padding |
Playstation 2
The SNDI has a 0x8 byte header:
| Offset | Type | Variable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | int | amount of SND | Amound of headers for SND assets. |
| 0x08 | int | amount of SNDS | Amound of headers for SNDS assets. |
After that, there are two consecutive arrays of SNDI entries: one for the SND and one for the SNDS. Each SNDI entry is 0x30 bytes long and is a VAG header. The reserved space at 0x8 in the header contains the sound's Asset ID.