Wii Music Ripping Guide + Tools

I have seen some people asking how to rip Wii music and I couldn’t find a guide to help them. I slapped together a package w/ a text guide and all the needed tools and links to download + rip music + convert it.

I am not a wii music ripper so I am not claiming to be an expert, the One-Up team actually helped me put together these tools and showed me how to do it – e-mail or pm me w/ any errors.

Download the whole package + tools V2 from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nymgwmwjazt

Here’s the guide, you will need the tools:

How to Rip music from Wii games into wav, mp3, ogg etc.

Questions, suggestions, errors – e-mail me:
E-Mail: [email protected]

What’s New in V2
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-Support for both .brstm,.rwav files. Auto rip into a ST Wav, auto loop and auto fade in 1 click!

Contents
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1. Contents
2. Wii Game Formats
3. Rip music from WAD files (WiiWare only)
4. Rip music from Wii ISO file
5. Professional editing, looping, fade-out and mastering.

Wii Game Formats
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Most Wii games use Streaming music (instead of Midi Seq) thus it is very easy to rip and convert into
WAV, MP3, OGG etc. You do not need a Wii in order to rip the music. I have included all the required files
in this package.

Wii games come in 2 flavors, Wii (ISO) and WiiWare (WAD) files. This doc isn’t going to cover how to make
these, but you can download them.

Download Wii ISOs
http://www.wiiiso.com/

Download WiiWare WADs
http://www.mediafire.com/timewalker

NOTE: This is only for Wii formated games, this will not work for VC which are emulated.

**Rip music from WAD files (WiiWare only)**
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1. Copy your WAD to the dir called "wwPacker181".

2. Dragon the WAD file to __wwunpacker.bat to extract it.

3. You should see a new dir created w/ a bunch of numbers like 00010001574b5450, click on that and
look for the biggest file (it’s usually 00000002.app) and be around 30mb or so…varies from game to game.

4. Copy the biggest file into "u8tool10.1" dir.

5. Open U8Tool.exe and click on the "Archive File" and choose that file, (in this case it’s 00000002.app).

6. Click on "Extract" (may take a few seconds so be patient) and should create a new dir app_OUT.

7. Click on the app_OUT dir and look for a dir called "stream" (or search for files with .brstm extention).

8. Copy the brstm files you want to convert to the dir called "vgstream-r694-test-modr1".

9. Click on the file called "_convert.bat" and it will convert into a ST WAV, auto loop and auto fade. It uses
default -l loop count. So if the file contains loop info it loops the music 2 then fades, if music has no loop
info it doesnt do a loop.

10. Use your fav method to convert the WAV into MP3, OGG or whatever.

**Rip music from Wii ISO files***
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1. Go to the dir called "Wiiscrubber" and run WIIScrubber.exe.

2. Click on "Load ISO" and open the ISO you wish to rip.

3. Once the ISO is loaded, expand the "Partition 2 DATA) tree.

4. Scroll down and look for "snd" and expand that until you see "strm" dir and see the "brstm" files.

5. Highlight one, right click and extract.

6. Copy the brstm files you want to convert to the dir called "vgstream-r694-test-modr1".

7. Click on the file called "_convert.bat" and it will convert into a ST WAV, auto loop and auto fade. It uses
default -l loop count. So if the file contains loop info it loops the music 2 then fades, if music has no loop
info it doesnt do a loop.

8. Use your fav method to convert the WAV into MP3, OGG or whatever.

Professional editing, looping, fade-out and mastering.
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V1 pack did not support auto loop, auto fade or ST WAV, but this this has been fixed in V2. You can edit
the bat file to change loop (if u want more) or adjust the fade out time.

Very useful info, thank you 🙂

Very useful indeed, i’ve always wanted to be able to rip WiiWare games.

Thanks.

I’m working a new tool to make this easier, so you can srip into 1 ST file, auto loop and auto fade. I will update it and upload that once we get it working so keep an eye on this post.

Updated tools to V2 much, much easier!OK thanks goes out to the One-Up team for this.

-Support for both .brstm,.rwav files. Auto rip into a ST Wav, auto loop and auto fade in 1 click!

Wow.

If I meddled with this sort of thing, I’d definitely give it a try. But I don’t.

I just wanted to say kudos on this. ^_^

I tried to unpack the 00000002.app and it had a directory ‘sound’ which I thought was the music. I opened it, but there were only several files, each not more than 400 bytes or so. They were BRASD files. There weren’t any brstm files. Does that mean the game is not able to be ripped from?

EDIT: There’s also a file called sound_en_us.brsar that might be it. (2.51 MB) Is there a way to unpack BRSAR files?

hmm what game is it?

Na 2mb is to small, be like 30-40mb or so. They could be midi based thus na can’t rip those 🙁

I’ll ask the person who helped put this together and see what he says, as I said I am not a wii ripping expert. He should know, i’ll let u know ASAP.

well this is a list of the supported files for GC/Wii format that app supports. I see Square-Enix uses those BSAR files (After Years, King and Dark Lord) it looks like midi based to me…thus it would have to be emulated or played from a Wii.

Again I’ll have steve take a look at it but that’s my guess…hope I am wrong.

GC/Wii DSP ADPCM:
– .agsc
– .amts
– .asr
– .bns
– .cfn
– .dsp
– standard, with dual file stereo
– RS03
– Cstr
– _lr.dsp
– .gca
– .gcm
– .gsp+.gsp
– .hps
– .idsp
– .ish+.isd
– .lps
– .mpdsp
– .mss
– .mus (not quite right)
– .ndp
– .pdt
– .sdt
– .smp
– .spt+.spd
– .ssm
– .stm/.dsp
– .str
– .str+.sth
– .sts
– .swd
– .thp, .dsp
– .tydsp
– .vjdsp
– .waa, .wac, .wad, .wam
– .wsd
– .wsi
– .ydsp
– .ymf
– .zwdsp

All I see is ASH Files! Where are the BRSTMs in my Pokemon Ranch Wad?

PS: What do I do to the ASH files?

PSS: I’m looking for the sound that plays when you Shake the Wiimote inside the WAD. Is there a Way to get that?

EDIT: I found a sound.bin in the metadata folder. What should I do with it? Extract it? How?

EDIT2: My game was Pokemon Ranch, as I mentioned before.

EDIT: I extracted the sound.bin file using a Portapack tool. All I saw was a .bns file! How do I open it??

Hello~ Gameguy444

Rip music from WAD files.

6. Click on "Extract" (may take a few seconds so be patient) and should create a new dir app_OUT

I get an error.
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Run time error ‘5’:
Invalid procedure call or argument
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Help me~~ Thanks in advance.
^^

Tried ripping Bomberman Blast and I have got .arc files??? Im goin to assume its unrippable at the moment…

Well, thanks for the tutorial but it doesn’t seem to work with LostWinds wad.
I’ve extracted the content of the biggest file (00000005.app in my case) but I don’t have any audio formats quoted in your list of the vgmstream supported files nor brstm files.
A tiny help would be very appreciated.
Otherwise thanks again for the tips =)

EDIT : I assume that the audio files are contained in the auddata.zap but how can I open that o_O

EDIT 2 : After opening it with an hexa-editor I can assure that the zap file contains all the aud files which must be the audio files I search for … The problem now, is to extract and convert these aud files -_-

Sorry for the double post but I’ve succeeded in ripping the music =), thanks again for the tip Gameguy !! I will post LostWinds rip soon !!

I noticed that some games like Taiko no Tatsujin Wii 2 use nub files for sound so what the heck is a .nub file

I noticed that some games like Taiko no Tatsujin Wii 2 use nub files for sound so what the heck is a .nub file

I second this, i want to know how to rip /convert .nub files aswell cause Soul Calibur Legends uses these.

Maybe oneday people will learn what a nub file

PS:isn’t sould calibur legends also a namco/namco bandai game there might be a connection between .nub and namco

No support for Nub files yet? thats a shame (Damn you Taiko Wii 2), but otherwise, the tool works great ^_^, thanks a lot

It has to be possible to convert .nub files (especially because there are people over the internet taunting with direct music rips)

(I’m not trying to insult the tool especially because it is the first guide I ever seen for ripping music/sound effects from Wii games)

Well, if someone could point me in the direction of the Original Ripper/converter of Taiko No Tatsujin Wii 1, maybe he can explain how he did it and maybe I can give it a go for Taiko Wii 2

Is there a way to unpack BRSARs? I have the one from FFIV: The After Years here (http://www.mediafire.com/?wtgn4mqwfqz), so if anyone knows how to unpack them, please tell me.

I’m having trouble locating any of the sound files in the Rabbids Go Home iso. I just want the disc channel music with the rabbids singing. Any help would be appreciated.

Is there a way to unpack BRSARs? I have the one from FFIV: The After Years here (http://www.mediafire.com/?wtgn4mqwfqz), so if anyone knows how to unpack them, please tell me.

I managed to use a BRSAR unpacker from HCS64, but it gave me the SFX. I think BRSAR is only for SFX. Anyway, the BRSAR from FFCC My Life as a King unpacked some RWAV files, which could be converted with VGMStream. The only other files that look anything even remotely like audio of any sort are the BRASD files in the "sound" directory.

Stupid Square Enix for not using BRSTM like most other games, why do you have to torment us so?

Did as instructed with my Muscle March WAD file up to step 6. At step 7 all I have are a bunch of "file" type files and a .bin. This may be over my head D:

I’m having trouble locating any of the sound files in the Rabbids Go Home iso. I just want the disc channel music with the rabbids singing. Any help would be appreciated.

So do I! Any help here?

I’m tring to extract the bit trip beat ost, i follow the procedure but fail when got to find .brstm files. I can only find a .brsar in a folder named sounds (so i assume it’s the right one :P)

i’ll try to google for some info, but if someone know something just post it here ^^

ciap!

to extract .brsar use this tool

http://www.hcs64.com/files/ripping_mama01.zip

just drag the .brsar file on the ripping_mama bat.
doing this you get some .rwav file. i’ll try to figure how to convert this in a while

double

to convert .rwav file just put the file you want to convert into vgstream-r694-test-modr1 folder and drag them on convert. This way u’ll have a output file in microsoft wave sound form that can be readed with winamp.

Is there a way to remove the fad? ’cause i’ve got to chain up some pieces and the fad ruin them :\

Did as instructed with my Muscle March WAD file up to step 6. At step 7 all I have are a bunch of "file" type files and a .bin. This may be over my head D:

same problem here with Muscle March NTSC US. 00000004.app has 33MB size, unpacked it with an older version of U8 Tools (the one you have here keeps giving me "Run time error ‘5’:
Invalid procedure call or argument" error on Win7 x64) and just got the following files and no directory…

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/1730/musclemarch.gif

They are ordered by size, bigger files first on top left. No directory w Stream, no .brstm extensions… I even tried adding .brstm extension to the largest files but nothing happened…

Any ideas?

The converter app doesn’t actually do anything except print a lame message:

I
RULE
YOUR TOOL

No error message or anything when I tried to convert BGM_DUN_BOSS1.sad from Shiren 3 to wav.

Tried to Rip Megaman 10 but all i got is Special Effects =S

The converter app doesn’t actually do anything except print a lame message:

I
RULE
YOUR TOOL

No error message or anything….

Same here…

Same here…

Figured it out…the files need to be in the same folder as the bat file. Then double click on it. Should convert after that.

I think I’m doing something wrong… I tried it with the Dr. Mario RX Online game (I know the soundtrack is already online, but I was just testing with it), and when I use U8 Tool, all I get are two files- "GAME.DAT" and "INFO.DAT."
Help?

Also, are any of these tool compatible with Gamecube ripping? I’d like to try getting actual rips – not recordings – of a few games like Donkey Kong Jungle Beat…

Figured it out…the files need to be in the same folder as the bat file. Then double click on it. Should convert after that.

Tried to convert a Shiren theme, the file is in the same folder as the .bat, but I only got that message =/
Someone knows if the .sad audio file is supported?

Thanks! I’ll try it.

I’m trying to extract music from de Blob game. I’ve found that music files are in .trb format:
(http://img94.imageshack.us/i/trb.png/)

Any chance to unpack them into WAV?

Thanks in advance!

Is there any way to put a wii cd into a pc and pull data off of it???

Wow this is way over my head. Also the mediafire link made me run in circles so i just downloaded wiiscrubber. Now I have a bunch of srt files. wtf do i do now.
also it’s monster hunter tri. if anyone has this….thanks

I’m trying to rip music from a Blaster Master:Overdrive WAD…and I didn’t get a BRSTM file…a little help here please as there are no gamerips or OSTs out for this game.

Same here…

ditto…could not move on with BM:Overdrive

this thread is lovely, but I have to wonder if there’s anyone who knows anything about other music file types found in Wii isos.

like, I want the music from Tree of Tranquility, but it’s not brstm files. they’re dsp files, and I had managed to play them in Winamp… one time. thanks to in_cube http://hcs64.com/in_cube.html

but that was all I managed to do, and now Winamp seems to hate me for some reason… and I dunno how I could get the files to a different format, posting in hopes that someone else might.

I had managed to play them in Winamp… one time. thanks to in_cube http://hcs64.com/in_cube.html

but that was all I managed to do, and now Winamp seems to hate me for some reason… and I dunno how I could get the files to a different format, posting in hopes that someone else might.

Is Winamp not opening now, by chance? When I close Winamp with a file that requires in_cube to play it gives me a black and red error message window and won’t open. I have to take in_cube out of the plugins folder and then start Winamp and choose something else to play, then put the plugin back in. Hope that’s what your problem is and nothing more terrible.

yes, I try to use it but it won’t respond. I had never thought to try that, though. I will now, thanks.

I have a problem with trying to rip the soundtrack of Star Soldier R. .. The largest file is 00000003.app but the sound files are in. Brsar … I used the brsar_unpack but do not know why when I open the CMD says the name of sound file and says the message below each file in the CMD, ((I do not get it ********* Skipping ********** I need help please. =(

i was trying to rip music from Wii Version Zelda Twilight Princess but don’t find the rigth file anyone know which file do i have to extract…

Having same problem with madworld. The music files are in rsd format except for one ogg format. I try mfaudio and winamp with plugins but nothing cant convert them. Help anyone?

anyone know anything about mlt files? is there something I can convert them to or something? got them in Harvest Moon: Magical Melody…

I have been searching like crazy and the only thing I found that could be relevant in some manner is something related to Shenmue that said something about them LOL

Someone can now do this. Record the music while playing Madworld on the pc………with the dolphin wii/gc emulater. I did it but the music keep hiccuping too much. My ghz is 2.30 & I can’t overclock my ram. So hopefully someone with more computer power can do this.

All I see is ASH Files! Where are the BRSTMs in my Pokemon Ranch Wad?

PS: What do I do to the ASH files?

PSS: I’m looking for the sound that plays when you Shake the Wiimote inside the WAD. Is there a Way to get that?

EDIT: I found a sound.bin in the metadata folder. What should I do with it? Extract it? How?

EDIT2: My game was Pokemon Ranch, as I mentioned before.

EDIT: I extracted the sound.bin file using a Portapack tool. All I saw was a .bns file! How do I open it??

I’ve having exactly the same problem, and would really appreciate some guidance. I can’t find the soundtrack anywhere, have tried about 3 different wad ripping programs… I’m at my wit’s end. Any advice?

Does somebody have an older version of u8tool? The version included doesn’t seem to do job properly.

Tried ripping Fluidity/Hydroventure (WiiWare)… All I got was a message saying:

"I
RULE
YOUR TOOL"

Can anyone help me out with this? Or just do it for me?

WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE GET ME A FLUIDITY RIP–ALL SOUND EFFECTS & LEVEL (OR WHATEVER IT’S CALLED) MUSIC PLEASE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! :?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!:?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I’m trying to extract music from de Blob game. I’ve found that music files are in .trb format:
(http://img94.imageshack.us/i/trb.png/)

Any chance to unpack them into WAV?

Thanks in advance!

Same here. Trying to get the trb files from de Blob. Please help!!

Yeah Tried Extracting from the brsar files for Mega Man 9 & Mega Man 10, its only sound effects, I read somewhere that it might be streamed but fragmented, whatever this means. gosh I can’t believe it had to be THAT one thats a problem to rip..

Has anyone succeeded in ripping MM9-MM10 ? I would really love to know how.

^ Yeah, Tried ripping Fluidity and got the same. Try using BrawlBox and open the BRSAR with it. I haven’t gotten farther than that…

i found .aax audio files on my iso. i just draged and droped them on the test.exe file in the vgstream-r694-test folder and it worked fine.

Thanks a bunch for this! 😀

_convert.bat gives me errors. I have the BRSTMs and I can’t convert them. Great.

_convert.bat gives me errors, aswell. Also, when I save a BRSTM file to my cpu, I get a message saying ”Error saving file”… 🙁

Yeah Tried Extracting from the brsar files for Mega Man 9 & Mega Man 10, its only sound effects, I read somewhere that it might be streamed but fragmented, whatever this means. gosh I can’t believe it had to be THAT one thats a problem to rip..

Has anyone succeeded in ripping MM9-MM10 ? I would really love to know how.

Yeah I have the same problem for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King. The .brsar file that is called "sound.brsar" is only sound effects. I really would like to obtain the music from this game, as the soundtrack doesn’t have in-game music. The music file is nowhere to be found. Please somebody help.

does every thing become 32000 hz can I change that?

how do you change how much it loops

WTF, can someone please rip the music from madworld wii please……..

WTF, can someone please rip the music from madworld wii please……..

I think you’re missing the point of this thread.

same here D:

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I want to get music without the music loop is repeated several times in the same file, only repeated once and the end does not decrease the audio. How do I get it? (extracted from. bsar files -> rwav files)

Hello, I was wondering if somebody could give me some help. I’m really new at this, but I thought I’d try ripping music from a game called Code Lyoko, Quest for Infinity. I know it’s been done before, but I can’t seem to do it because I don’t see any of the music filetypes that have been discussed in the thread so far. (I looked through the entire contents of the disk image with wiiscrubber!) The only interesting prospect is a 1.1GB file called music.grp. I’m guessing that’s it because of the size, but I can’t find a way to extract the music. Anybody seen this before? I’m working on compressing it and uploading it at the moment. Thanks!

Here it is: http://www.filefactory.com/file/3o0i0biv0ggj/n/music_grp_7z

Thank you so much for this tool

Very Use full,Thanks . What a great stuff

What do you do if your ISO happens to not have a partition 2 section? The game in question, (Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers), appears to not have a second partition according to wiiscrubber.

Is it doomed? D:

Is there a way to extract multiple files from a wii iso at the same time? Im trying to extract Batman The Brave And The Bold and there are so many audio files I can’t distinguish which ones are the songs so being able to see the size of the files would help a lot.

I’m trying to rip music from mega man 9 but i cant identify the music

I have several old iso’s I ripped from my collection years ago, and I want to extract the music, but I can’t figure out what to do with the files. I’m using dolphin to extract the files, but nothing can convert them. I’m trying to get the Cel Damage soundtrack and the House of the Dead Overkill soundtrack. The cel damage files are .xma, and the house of the dead are .rev. Any ideas on what I need to do?

It seems nobody finds this guide useful. Me neither.
I’m trying to rip music from My Sims Racing, but I just don’t find any folder that contains the music files. All I find is .str, .sbk and .wii files in different folders. 🙁

It seems nobody finds this guide useful. Me neither.
I’m trying to rip music from My Sims Racing, but I just don’t find any folder that contains the music files. All I find is .str, .sbk and .wii files in different folders. 🙁
aren’t .str music files?

aren’t .str music files?

It doesn’t seem so, because no program opens/can convert them. :/
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I also have a problem with My Sims audio files. They are .strm files, but no program can convert them, and whenever I open it in any program (like foobar2000) it just sounds like noise.
I tried to extract it, resulting in .MUS files, but the exact same happens. There’s people on Internet that say these also contain more audio data, but I’m not sure of that. I just don’t know what to do anymore. 🙁

you have vgmstream installed?

Yes. It doesn’t work.
Whenever I click on the ‘test’ file, it opens and closes immediately. Even if I download it from different websites.
And I don’t find any ‘convert.bat’ file that works either.

well in that case, I’m not sure. "/

Thanks for trying anyway. �_�

I tried ripping Star Soldier R using this and Ripping Mama did not extract anything. Help?

I just need to ask this. Does anyone have Art of Balance, which was also released for WiiU? I was wondering if someone would be kind to make a rip of the soundtrack. The 3ds audio is not so good, so I did not even yet attempted to rip my game. :/

The converter app doesn’t actually do anything except print a lame message:

I
RULE
YOUR TOOL

I keep getting this exact same message. It tells me to press any key to continue, but after that the program just disappears. These .adx files are 8 seconds on average and there are a ton of them.