How to dump Super Mario All-Stars NTSC-U SNES ROM from Wii Super Mario 25th collection disc:
I could not find any guide out there on how to successfully get the Super Mario All-Stars ROM from my Super Mario 25th collection disc to play the game other them my Wii,
I managed to finally figure it out and post it here:
- Use USBloader GX on Wii (or vWii) to dump the SVME01.wbfs to your USB Storage (or SD Card, its only 18MB in size).
- Power off your Wii and copy the SVME01.wbfs off of the SD card and on to your PC (I'm using Linux sorry),
Using the wit software, (In my case the Linux x86_64 build) and under bin/ have both the SVME01.wbfs and the wit binary and exacute this command:
./wit EXTRACT SVME01.wbfs -d dump.
- You will now have a complete dump of the disks files/folders.
- Navagte to: dump/files/content5/ and you will have the compressed portions of the ROM there:
- LZH8SVME.rom
- LZH8SVME.pcm
There is two issues now, there compressed using LZH8 as well as the audio is spilt from the main code into a .pcm file.
- You will now need the vcromclaim set of python3.3 tools. Unfortunately the python under Ubuntu 24.04 is no longer comparable (gives an error related to time), I had to copy them to a Ubuntu 16.04 VM and run the software there.You will have to install python 3:
sudo apt install python3
- Then decompress both the main ROM file & the PCM file:
python3 ./lzh8.py LZH8SVME.rom b-LZH8SVME.rompython3 ./lzh8.py LZH8SVME.pcm b-LZH8SVME.pcm
- You can now merge the two files to create a standard SNES ROM of Super Mario All-Stars:
python3 ./snesrestore.py b-LZH8SVME.rom b-LZH8SVME.pcm LZH8SVME.smc
- Success! Just rename the LZH8SVME.smc to what you like, try it in a emulator like bsnes and it should work correctly!
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Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WiiHacks/comments/k0yfo0/how_do_i_extract_files_from_a_wii_game_iso/
https://wit.wiimm.de/wit/
https://wit.wiimm.de/download.html
https://github.com/Plombo/vcromclaim
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-extract-super-mario-all-stars-from-game.272475/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/lzh8-compression.147380/
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Vcromclaim_Wii
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58569361/attributeerror-module-time-has-no-attribute-clock-in-python-3-8
Date: July 28th 2024
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