Project 13: _wiiextractor
WiiExtractor
A tool that extracts images and sounds from the Wii System Menu and from WAD files.
overview
WiiExtractor pulls the images and sounds out of the Wii System Menu (Dolphin or real NAND dumps) and out of WAD files such as channels, WiiWare and Virtual Console titles, and turns them into normal PNG and WAV files.
Written in Python, with a tkinter GUI and a command-line interface, Pillow for the images and pycryptodome for WAD decryption.
highlights
- Decoders for U8 archives, ASH and LZ77 compression, TPL textures and BRSAR sound archives
- Decrypts WAD files with the Wii common key
- GUI with a live log that runs extraction in the background
- Raw output that mirrors the original tree, or a clean Images and Sounds layout