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== Format Overview ==
The moveset files can be broken up into several sections:
=== Header ===
This contains information about the total filesize of the moveset portion, the size of the data section, and the number of entries in the other sections.
{{OffsetTableStart|Header Size {{eq}} 0x20}}
{{Offset|00000|04|Filesize|The total filesize of the file.}}
{{Offset|00004|04|Datasize|The size of the Data section.}}
{{Offset|00008|04|Offset Count|The number of entries in the Offset section.}}
{{Offset|0000C|04|FtData Count|The number of FtData sections in the file}}
{{Offset|00010|04|"Section Type 2" Count|The number of secondary sections in the file. Certain characters such as Game & Watch have these.}}
{{Offset|00014|04|Version|The version number of the file...?}}
|-
! 00018 || 04
| {{0}}
|-
! 0001C || 04
| {{0}}
|}
== Data Section ==
This section starts at the end of the header, and all offsets within this section are therefore -0x20 relative to their absolute offset within the file.

=== FtData Sections ===
These sections contain information about the character's properties and moveset. They each have a definition and a header which points to offsets for the character's attributes and subactions.

==== Definition ====
This section defines the FtData section, giving it a name and a pointer to its header.
{{OffsetTableStart|FtData Definition Size {{eq}} 0x08}}
{{Offset|00000|04|Header|The offset to the Header section of this FtData section.}}
{{Offset|00004|04|Name|The offset to the null-terminated string representing the name of this section.}}
|}

==== Header ====
This is the header for the data, containing the offsets to the subactions and attributes.
{{OffsetTableStart|FtData Header Size {{eq}} 0x60}}
{{Offset|00000|04|Attributes Start|The offset to the beginning of the Attributes section.}}
{{Offset|00004|04|Attributes End  |The offset to the end of the Attributes section.}}
{{Offset|00008|04|{{0}}}}
{{Offset|0000C|04|Subactions Start|The offset to the beginning of the Subactions section.}}
{{Offset|00010|04|{{0}}}}
{{Offset|00014|04|Subactions End  |The offset to the end of the Attributes section.}}
{{Offset|00018|18|{{0}}         |These values are likely more offsets to sections that are yet unknown.}}
|}

==== Attributes ====
This section describes properties of the character such as physics and number of jumps. Each entry is 8 bytes long and can either be an integral or floating point value.
<p>''Main article: [[Attributes (Melee)]]''</p>

==== Subactions ====
This section describes the commands and flags for each animation the character has. Each one has a header and an offset to a set of [[Events (Melee)|events]]. They are in roughly the same order for every character.
<p>''Main article: [[Subactions (Melee)]]''</p>
===== Header =====
{{OffsetTableStart|Subaction Header Size {{eq}} 0x18}}
{{Offset|00000|04|Name|The offset to the null-terminated string representing the name of this section.}}
{{Offset|00004|04|Animation Offset|The offset to the animation for this subaction, relative to the start of Pl''Xx''AJ.dat.}}
{{Offset|00008|04|Animation Size|The filesize of the animation.}}
{{Offset|0000C|04|Events|The offset to the Events section of this subaction.}}
{{Offset|00010|04|Character ID?|Character ID in the lowest-order byte. Some other piece of data is occasionally present in the highest-order byte?}}
{{Offset|00014|04|00000000|When the file is loaded by the game, this space is filled in with a pointer to the animation in ARAM for use when loading the animation into RAM.}}
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