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Welcome to the wiki for the video game Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom!

Modding

Here, you will find useful information and documentation about findings, exploration and modding of Heavy Iron games.

Heavy Iron Studios created and used the same engine across 5 games:

• Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• The Incredibles
• The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is the most well-known and has the biggest community out of all of these games, so most of the information here is being compiled from research specifically on that game. However, many concepts and file formats are common throughout these 5 games. This wiki is meant to provide technical info on the game engine from all games, not just BFBB. Feel free to contribute any knowledge you may have on any of these games.

All games also use the RenderWare Engine, a graphics engine developed by Criterion Software which was very popular and frequenly used in early 2000's games due to ease of use and portability between four systems (PC, PS2, GameCube and XBOX).

Modding guides

• Setting up Dolphin for Modding
• Asset Porting
• Sound and Music
• Basic Asset Editing (depreciated)

Video tutorials

• TetraxZ's Industrial Park tutorial
• igorseabra4's model importing tutorial
• igorseabra4's sound and music tutorial

Formats

• Filesystem
• HIP (File Format)
• SDF (File Format)
• Assets
• Events

Tools

Tool	Author	Version	Description
HipHopTool	igorseabra4	0.4.5	Used to extract, edit and create new HIP/HOP archives
Industrial Park	igorseabra4	Preview 8	Viewer and editor for HIP/HOP archives
BFBB Patch Tool	Seil	0.4	Allows creation and applying of patches for modified content in BFBB; used for distribution of mods
BFBB JSP Tool	igorseabra4		Converts JSP and DFF files from XBOX versions of Battle For Bikini Bottom and Movie Game to OBJ.
QuickBSPtoOBJ	igorseabra4		Converts BSP files from Scooby Doo: Night of 100 Frights to OBJ.
rwio	The Hero	3.1d	Plugin for 3ds Max which allows importing and exporting of RenderWare DFFs.
Magic.TXD	The_GTA	1.1	Editor for RenderWare textures
QuickBMS	Luigi Auriemma	0.9.0	Previous tool for HIP/HOP, did not allow complex editing of the files
RW Analyze	Steve M.	0.4b	Used to view the tree structure of RenderWare files (models)

Mods

Mod	Author	Version	Release	Description
TetraxZ's BfBB Showcase Mod	TetraxZ	1.2	2018/09/14	Showcases what Industrial Park can do in terms of editing levels.

Exploits/Glitches

• Cruise boosting
• Hand disable
• L clipping
• Save Game glitch
• Sponge-Glide
• SpongeBall storage

Other Games

• Scooby-Doo: Night Of 100 Frights
  • Filesystem
• The Spongebob Squarepants Movie Game
  • Filesystem