add custom characters to mario kart wii dolphin

To add your custom icons go to your iso files data/files/scene/ui and open the files there with brawlbox, you can replace the images there the same way as described above, the most important are award.sza and race.szs. Next go to data/files/scene/model and open driver.szs using Brawlbox too and do the same, look for the file ca.brres and replace it with the file of the same name inside the driver folder of the custom characters files. Now in your iso files go to data/files/demo and open the file called Award.szs using the tool linked above Brawlbox, once opened go to the file inside called ca.brres, right click it, select replace and replace it with the file of the same name inside the award folder of the customs character files. Once you downloaded the custom character files, extract the zip and copy the files inside the allkart folder named ca-allkart.szs and ca-allkart_BT.szs to data/files/scene/model/kart of your Mario Kart Wii extracted iso files and replace the existing ones.Ĭopy now all the files inside the vehicles folder to your extracted iso files inside data/files/race/kart and replace the existing ones too. You'll need this tool to replace some of the files too: Now go to the Custom Mario Kart wiki and choose a custom character of your liking, I'll use this one for the tutorial: Click 'extract entire disc' and extract all the files to a new folder you created prior. So the Mario Kart Wii modding community has produced a lot of cool new content but most of the guides online to add custom tracks and custom characters are for using on a real Wii and not on Dolphin, so here is a quick tutorial on how to add custom characters to your Mario Kart Wii iso so you can play it on PC using Dolphin:įirst I recommend to patch your iso with Wiims custom tracks from here, so you'll have access to over 260 custom tracks:Īfter that you need to extract your Mario Kart Wii iso files, open Dolphin and right click on MKW, click properties then click on the filesystem tab and right click the first item on the list, usually named disc. Linksįilter Posts News Discussion Hardware Support For more information on how to rip your game discs see this guide.

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Add custom characters to mario kart wii dolphin