Contents
- 1 List of all Tools
- 1.1 Most Important Programs
- 1.2 Cheats and Saves
- 1.3 Conversion and Automation
- 1.4 Emulators (Dolphin)
- 1.5 Fonts, Layout and HUD
- 1.6 ISO Archive Editing
- 1.7 Level Editing
- 1.8 Map Editing
- 1.9 Models, Textures, Effects & Particles
- 1.10 Multi-Purpose Tools
- 1.11 Other
- 1.12 Scripts
- 1.13 Sound Editing
- 1.14 Tileset Editing
List of all Tools[edit | edit source]
On this page you can find a list of all programs that are relevant for NSMBW hacking. Some apps are for general Wii hacking, or have an even broader context.
Most Important Programs[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Description | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reggie Level Editor POPULAR
|
An editor to create and modify Levels for New Super Mario Bros Wii. | Stable: Milestone 3 Alpha: M3A2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
| Puzzle Tileset Editor (Jigsaw) POPULAR
|
A program to create and modify Tilesets for New Super Mario Bros Wii. | 0.8 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Koopatlas Map Editor POPULAR
|
An editor to create and modify Maps for NSMBW mods based on the "Newer" engine. | 1.0 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Riivolution POPULAR
|
Riivolution is an on-the-fly game patcher for use with retail discs. It allows users to place content on their SD or USB devices, which will be read by the game during regular play.
It can be used for custom textures, music, levels, memory patches, game translations, and more! |
1.7 | Freeware |
| BrawlBox POPULAR
|
An essential toolkit for creating or modifying models, textures, bones, animations, songs, and more. | 0.78 | N/A |
| CTools POPULAR
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The CTools library is a series of programs designed to edit Nintendo's game files, but specifically Mario Kart Wii. It can however be used for NSMBW as well. Programs included are: SZS Modifier, BMG Tool, BRRES Tool and others. |
1.00.0008 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| SZS Modifier POPULAR
|
The SZS Modifier program is the original program to allow you to load up and alter SZS files from Wii games (originally made for MKWii). This allows the user to perform texture hacks and model hacks to Mario Kart Wii and any other Nintendo Wii games which use the same .szs file data and then export these files back into the game. | 2.5.2 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Wiims ISO Tools POPULAR
|
Wiimms ISO Tools is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers. | Stable: 3.0a
Beta: 3.02a.beta2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
| Wiims SZS Toolset POPULAR
|
Wiimms SZS Toolset is a set of command line tools to manipulate SZS, U8, WBZ, WU8, PACK, BRRES, BREFF, BREFT, BMG, KCL, KMP, MDL, PAT, TEX, TPL, BTI, main.dol and StaticR.rel files of supported Wii games. | Stable: 1.29a
Beta: 3.02a.beta2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
Cheats and Saves[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCTEdit | This GCT Editor's primary purpose is to export GCT codesets to text files, separating known codes into their own blocks. | 3.7.1 | GNU General Public License v2 or later |
| Gecko Code Manager | Gecko Code Manager is a Windows application for managing codes and creating the GCT File. | 1.2 | N/A |
| Ocariina | A codehandler to use Gecko codes together with Riivolution | 1.0 | N/A |
| Tanooki Save Editor | Once, Tanooki was the first, very simplistic Level Editor for NSMBW. Now it's the only NSMBW save editor! | 1.2 | N/A |
Conversion and Automation[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Description | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| BrawlBox POPULAR
|
An essential toolkit for creating or modifying models, textures, bones, animations, songs, and more. | 0.78 | Unknown |
| Fst.bin (FSTCreator) | Giantpune's fst.bin Creatorizer, Windows adaption by conanac | 0.02 | N/A |
| Ntcompress | Tool from Nintendo's SDK to compress and decompress files. (De-)Compression supported: LZ77, Huffman, RangeCoder. | 2.0.0 | Proprietary |
| Reggie Dumper | Dumper app for Wii by Aaron and megazig. Dumps files required for Reggie! This app will dump the files from New Super Mario Bros. Wii which are required in order to use the Reggie! Level Editor. | 1.1 | N/A |
| Yaz0 Dump | Mainly for NGC and N64, but can also be used for the Wii. Encodes yaz0 files. | 1.0 | N/A |
| Wiims ISO Tools POPULAR
|
Wiimms ISO Tools is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers. | Stable: 3.0a
Beta: 3.02a.beta2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
| Wiims SZS Toolset POPULAR
|
Wiimms SZS Toolset is a set of command line tools to manipulate SZS, U8, WBZ, WU8, PACK, BRRES, BREFF, BREFT, BMG, KCL, KMP, MDL, PAT, TEX, TPL, BTI, main.dol and StaticR.rel files of supported Wii games. | Stable: 1.29a
Beta: 3.02a.beta2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
Emulators (Dolphin)[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Description | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolphin Emulator POPULAR
|
Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more! | Stable: 5.0
Nightly: [1] |
GNU General Public License v3 |
| Dolphin Emulator No-ISO (NewerDolphin) | A Dolphin Mod, which does not need an ISO to run. Instead, the game's files need to be extracted in a specific way for it to work. | Stable: 5.0, 4.0.2, 3.5 | Proprietary |
| Dolphin AVSync OBSOLETE
|
Another Mod for Dolphin. This one should be used for recording gameplay, because the original Emulator has some problems synchronizing the video output with the audio output. (Please test with latest version if problem still exists) | Stable: 4.0 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Dolphin DebugFast | Memory breakpoints allow pausing of the game when memory addresses of interest are read/written to. Study registers in adjacent code lines after breaking to (hopefully) find useful functions within the ASM code. Write your own ASM to inject at a line! | Stable: 4.0 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Dolphin TAS Mod (Netplay) OBSOLETE
|
Obsolete, because the feature is included in every recent Dolphin version. | Stable: 4.0 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Dolphin VR Oculus Mod | This is a fork of the Dolphin Emulator that supports the Oculus Rift (CV1 and DK2), HTC Vive, and (optionally) the Razer Hydra. Dolphin is an emulator for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii, which can also play Wii Virtual Console games. 3D Games can be played in Virtual Reality with accurate life-size scale, full FOV, a 3D HUD, independent aiming, and the ability to look around. 2D Games can be played on a life-size virtual screen at the correct angle, sometimes even in 3D. | Stable: 4.0 | GNU General Public License v3 |
Fonts, Layout and HUD[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Description | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRFNT Viewer (by Tempus) OUTDATED
|
A program to view .brfnt files. This is an old version, it is recommended to use BRFNTify instead. | 1.0.0 | N/A |
| BRFNT2TPL | Command-line tool to convert .brfnt files to the TPL format. | 1.0 | N/A |
| BRFNTify | A program to view .brfnt files. | Beta 1 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Benzin OUTDATED
|
A command-line tool to convert files from .brlyt to .xmlyt and vice versa. | 1.0 | N/A |
| EZBenzin | Makes above operations easier and also allows drag-and-drop. | 1.0 | N/A |
| Wii Layout Editor (WiiLE) | Wii Layout Editor is a program to view and edit brlyt and brlan files. | Beta 1 | N/A |
ISO Archive Editing[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Description | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newer Mod ISO Builder (Newer) | This will combine an ISO copy of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and riivolution-style packs of the following Mods: Newer SMBW, Cannon SMBW, Another SMBW, Newer Summer Sun, Newer Holiday Special, Epic Super Bowser World (and custom Mods) to create a standard ISO/WBFS version of the selected Mod. | 1.06 | N/A |
| Reggie Dumper | Reggie Dumper is an application that will run on your Wii. It can dump the "Stage" folder, the entire disc, or the .dol file and the header. | 1.1 | N/A |
| Wiims ISO Tools POPULAR
|
Wiimms ISO Tools is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers. | Stable: 3.0a
Beta: 3.02a.beta2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
| Wiiscrubber OBSOLETE
|
A useful, now deprecated app. You can open up Wii ISO files and extract individual files from them.
You can also compress ("scrub") the ISO so that unused areas are overwritten with 0xFFs. This has the effect of making the ISO much more compressible (depending on the size of the game's content). |
1.40 | N/A |
Level Editing[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reggie Level Editor POPULAR
|
An editor to create and modify Levels for New Super Mario Bros Wii. | Stable: Milestone 3 Alpha: M3A2 |
GNU General Public License v3 |
| Level Info Editor (Newer) | Level Info Editor is a program which can edit and save copies of LevelInfo.bin from Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii. | 1.4 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Credits Editor (Newer) | Newer Credits Editor is a program which can edit and save copies of NewerStaffRoll.bin from Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii | 1.2 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Messages Editor (Newer) | Newer Messages Editor is a program which can edit and save copies of Messages.bin from Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii. | 1.3 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Staffroll Editor (Credits) (Newer) | A cmd-line tool to convert (Newer)staffroll.bin files to .txt and vice-versa. | N/A | N/A |
| Riivolution POPULAR
|
Riivolution is an on-the-fly game patcher for use with retail discs. It allows users to place content on their SD or USB devices, which will be read by the game during regular play.
It can be used for custom textures, music, levels, memory patches, game translations, and more! |
1.7 | Freeware |
| RiiFS | RiiFS is a simple custom network protocol used by Riivolution to allow a computer to act like a disk file-system. This allows for both public streamable releases as well as private testing of modifications without needing to restart the game." | 1.3 | Freeware |
| Assemble Next (RiivoXMLCreate) | A Riivolution XML memory patch builder. | N/A | N/A |
Map Editing[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koopatlas Map Editor POPULAR
|
The Newer World Map Engine Editor for Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Create new 2D maps or edit existing ones. Can create animated objects. Other Overworld parameters can be set as well. |
N/A | N/A |
| Koopatlas Next Map Editor INDEV
|
The Newer World Map Engine Editor for Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, but in Java (cross-platform) and with a lot of new, spicy features! Works also with Newer ASM. | Currently alpha0.0_indev but Lory, as he promise, will release a stable alpha soon. | N/A |
| Koopuzzle Map Tileset Editor | Map Tilesets can be created with Koopuzzle (included in the Koopatlas download) from a 768x384 image, and will have the .arc extension when properly exported. A Photoshop template, and handy Action scripts are also included. | N/A | N/A |
Models, Textures, Effects & Particles[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| BREFF Editor | BREFF Editor is a tool that allows the modification of Wii BREFF files. You can change all the particle colors of each effect, their scale and their width and height. | 1.0.5.0 | N/A |
| BREFF HEX Replacer (GUI with color view) OUTDATED
|
A program to change the color within a BREFF. | N/A | N/A |
| BRRES Viewer | This program allows you to view models, textures and animations in BRRES format (a resource format used in many Wii games), and export them. | 1.2 | N/A |
| Modelporter | Cmd-line tools to extract/insert models. | N/A | N/A |
| SZS Modifier POPULAR
|
The SZS Modifier program is the original program to allow you to load up and alter SZS files from Wii games (originally made for MKWii). This allows the user to perform texture hacks and model hacks to Mario Kart Wii and any other Nintendo Wii games which use the same .szs file data and then export these files back into the game. | 2.5.2 | GNU General Public License v3 |
Multi-Purpose Tools[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| BrawlBox POPULAR
|
An essential toolkit for creating or modifying models, textures, bones, animations, songs, and more. | 0.78 | N/A |
| CTools POPULAR
|
The CTools library is a series of programs designed to edit Nintendo's game files, but specifically Mario Kart Wii. It can however be used for NSMBW as well. Programs included are: SZS Modifier, BMG Tool, BRRES Tool and others. |
1.00.0008 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| BRRES Viewer | This program allows you to view models, textures and animations in BRRES format (a resource format used in many Wii games), and export them. | 1.2 | N/A |
| Wii CS Tools | Contains the following Tools:
|
N/A | N/A |
Other[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wii Backup Manager | Wii Backup Manager is a program to work with DVD backups, FAT32, NTFS and WBFS drives to convert between DVD, ISO, CISO and WBFS. It can also extract Wii games to the format used by SNEEK. | 0.4.5
Build 78 |
N/A |
| Wii Game Manager | The primary function of the program is conversion to/from .iso and .wbfs files
Sub functions include: Adding and removing files to/from WBFS formatted partitions Game cover management (Display and download) |
1.5.0.2 | N/A |
Scripts[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| adpcm Info Gen | Info about DSPADPCM (DSP audio) sound files. | N/A | N/A |
| AnimTiles | Converts AnimTiles.bin to readable format (.txt) and vice-versa. | N/A | N/A |
| Path Tool | Calculates the speed needed to synchronize multiple path nodes. | 2 | N/A |
| Remove Header (for AnimTiles) | Removes the header from a .bin file extracted from a TPL. | N/A | N/A |
| TPL Remove | Removes the header from a .bin file extracted from a TPL. | 1.0 | N/A |
Sound Editing[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audacity (Audio Editor) | Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.
Developed by a group of volunteers as open source. |
2.2.2 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Better Wii BRSTM BRSAR Patcher | A better utility for patching BRSAR files (can patch with BRSTMs up to 4GB)! | 1.0.0 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| Brawl Custom Song Maker GUI (BCSM GUI) OUTDATED
|
Features
|
1.5.0.0 | N/A |
| BRSAR File Patcher OUTDATED
|
This program can be used to modify any BRSAR file. | N/A | Unknown |
| BRSTM Converter OUTDATED
|
BRSTM Converter is a program written in Visual C# with BrawlLib (and using other programs, like SoX, to do the actual conversion). You can use it to do batch conversions to BRSTM and/or batch modifications of certain audio attributes:
|
3.4.1 | N/A |
| Looping Audio Converter | This application acts as a frontend to other programs and libraries, and allows conversion between the Wii BRSTM format and a variety of other formats.
Supported input formats:
Supported output formats:
|
1.3 | MIT |
| Patch that BRSAR! | Patch that BRSAR! or PTB is a tool developed by Atlas that allows patching all the BRSTM entries from Wii BRSAR files, to make the music not to cut off. It was made way back in 2016 and it was kept private, but the author decided to release it a year later. | 1.0 | N/A |
| CSEQ2MIDI & MIDI2CSEQ | Cmd-line tools to convert between CSEQ and MIDI files. | N/A | N/A |
| DSPADPCM Editor | Encoding tool to encode PCM streams to ADPCM. A forked Audacity is used as the GUI. | N/A | N/A |
| Multi Stream BRSTM GUI | A tool to create multi-stream BRSTMs (up to 8 channels). Loop Points can be set as well. | 1.0 | N/A |
| MBRSTM Build OUTDATED
|
A cmd-line tool with the same functions as Multi-Stream BRSTM GUI. | N/A | N/A |
| RSEQ & SSEQ2MIDI | Cmd-line tools to convert from RSEQ & SSEQ to MIDI. | N/A | N/A |
Tileset Editing[edit | edit source]
| Name | Short Desciption | Version | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puzzle Tileset Editor (Jigsaw) POPULAR
|
A program to create and modify Tilesets for New Super Mario Bros Wii. | 0.8 | GNU General Public License v3 |
| AnimTiles | Converts AnimTiles.bin to readable format (.txt) and vice-versa. | N/A | N/A |
| Tileset Template for Photoshop | For Koopatlas Map Editor by Tempus. | N/A | N/A |