Mario Sports Mix Modding Community

As we begin, we need several programs, depending on what you want to do.

Yea this is not only a simple tutorial, but we can also be friendly lol, so what you need is to click on these links and install those programs:

• BrawlCrate (ancient version was called BrawlBox)
• Wiimms SZS Tools (to extract/compress arc files, used by Yosh scripts. it's a must have)
• Wiimms ISO Tools (to extract and rebuild iso / wbfs, used by Yosh scripts) 
• A working brain
• Python 3.9 (or higher, for Yosh's python scripts to work)
  
• Yosh's python scripts v0.53
• The game ISO (or the game disc) ; you can rip it from your own disc with CleanRip
• Super Mario 3D Land MSBT Editor (yea the 3ds was not released on 2009 and it's not the same editors, but whatever..... it works so use it) (to edit text in menu/mesg)
• HxD Hex Editor (for experimental mods)
• A 3D Modelling Software (I use Maya 2018, but Blender and 3dsmax works too - 3ds max is not free) (to do custom characters)
• A Wii / Wii U with the Homebrew Channel + Riivolution (or Dolphin)

If you want to see the old getting started version without python, where you had to make almost everything with cmd, without a Graphical User Interface, you can.

Else, if you prefer modding easily and faster than that old tutorial, We'll start using Yosh's python scripts

to run any app, click on his corresponding button,
to run the menu (as well as any other app without needing to use the menu every time )
as the installer told you, type the app name without extension
Click on Shortcuts button to see their names and on Config to change the colour intensity

Click on Help button to view more information about any app Yosh developed

let's start extracting your game image (iso or wbfs)
you can rip it from your own disc using USB Loader Gx or CleanRip

once you have the iso or wbfs, launch "MSM iso/wbfs extract and compress" then either click on the button corresponding to your file or click on "open file explorer" and select the folder which contains your file then click on the button with your file name.

wait for the black windows to disappear then you can browse the "Mario-Sports-Mix" folder
you can play a decompressed game on dolphin, just select Mario-Sports-Mix/sys/main.dol and run it with this software.
if you're interested, we've documented the whole Filesystem with all our current knowledge.

Before planning to use Brawlcrate note that some brres files (such as character files 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, and 17, all stages and ball models, and cmn_test.bin) have folders named External inside them. BrawlCrate can't save edits to files with this folder, so currently you must either delete the folder (which results in missing Special Power model) or try Hex editor.... because Wiimms szs tools doesn't work either

some files are arc (and not brres), to notice them either :

- open the file_DECOMP.bin with hex editor and see the four first letters,
   if it's "bres" it's a brres file, if you see "U.8", it's what we call an arc file (u8 archive)

-open it with brawlcrate and look at the icon, if it's the brown one with "ARC" written on it or the red one with "BRES"

if a file is an u8 archive, we recommend you to use the app called "MSM arc files extract and compress" to extract that file and rebuild the arc folder. (edit the brres inside that folder with BrawlCrate).
Because you might be aware that some file formats are not supported well by BrawlCrate.
that's also the reason why Yosh made his Python scripts

If you want to learn more we recommend you to see our
Other Tutorials

You can also take a look at How to make a Texture Hack