How do I rip music from Wii titles? (For free.)

[DWGW001]

Hey Zapp,

Was wondering, could you perchance send me the sound file for the sound the black cat from the photo/news channel makes? I would really appreciate it if you could. Looking forward to hearing from you,

Kinds regards,

V.O

Well first you need to extract the game files to see what you're working with. I went ahead and got a rom of the game, then opened Dolphin emulator. Dolphin's got an extremely good extraction tool for Wii/GC games. You access it from the main game list menu. Right click on Wii Fit Plus > Properties> then click on the FileSystem Tab (should be the furthest on the right, so scroll over). From there you're looking at how the game's files are arranged internally, and can extract anything you think might be sound-related. One of the main directories is called Sound, just click on that to extract some place you can keep track of it. Another common name I've seen in games is "Stream" as in streamed audio.

Now we have a bunch of folders. Most are empty, and are probably of no use to us. Best to delete them to get them out of the way. Others have .brsar and .brstrm files - very common in Wii games. The folder called RPMainScene seems to be loaded with music and various jingles in .brstrm format. I opened them with Foobar2000. That's a tool that opens all sorts of file formats, and if it can be opened in foobar without error, that means you can convert it to .wav. No problems here, how about other types of sound?

I then looked at the folder called HealthStatic. .Brsar are file containers, meaning there's a lot of stuff jammed in there that may or may not be relevant to you. I know this type of container is associated with BrawlBox. I've got no experience with this tool, but it was simple enough identifying individual sound files and converting them to .wav to listen to. But as I worked my way down the list BrawlBox was showing error messages. Maybe the files I tried converting were not actually sounds

Hopefully this is enough to get you started. Good luck finding whatever it is you're trying to find.