How are WiiWare / Virtual Console Operation Guides made?

ZodiaKGalXy · Apr 15, 2026

I recognized from research that some manuals redirect the user to HTML pages to navigate from, but what about images that look like the following examples?

Example #1:

Example #2:

Example #3:

Example #4:

I ask for your opinion as I want to discuss on an application, which specializes in creating these manuals for custom made or injected games. I know you would say "just use a paint program," but I feel a dedicated application sounds more practical.

Let me know what you think.

JuanMena · Apr 17, 2026

If I'm not mistaken these are FLASH files containing PDF of some sort that the Wii decompresses.

There's a "Flash/Java" Game Loader going around in the Wii Forum, you could check it.

WiiWare_lover · Apr 17, 2026

JuanMena said:
If I'm not mistaken these are FLASH files containing PDF of some sort that the Wii decompresses.

There's a "Flash/Java" Game Loader going around in the Wii Forum, you could check it.

I thought wii shop channel uses HTML

JuanMena · Apr 17, 2026

WiiWare_lover said:
I thought wii shop channel uses HTML

Oh these are from Shop Channel?
Thought these where the manuals IN the Channels themselves.

WiiWare_lover · Apr 17, 2026

The ones from channels, u can download from the wii shop channel will direct u to the wii shop channel, manuals from mostly system titles (like forecast and news channel) are IN the channel. U can still access these pages on the wii shop channel, but because nintendo delisted them, u need to start the channel with args, look here: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Shop_Channel#Technical_Information
Or just use wiilink's Nintendo Channel.

ZodiaKGalXy · Apr 17, 2026

WiiWare_lover said:
I thought wii shop channel uses HTML

Yea, the Wii Shop does iirc. This is a screenshot example of an actual HTML file.

I'm referring to what @JuanMena mentioned, "manuals in the channels themselves", which from extraction were just JPG images. I found some of them specifically in a hbm directory in WiiWare WADs.

WiiWare_lover · Apr 18, 2026

Hey, unrelated but may u answer to this message, I want to test if I get an Mail

ZodiaKGalXy · Apr 19, 2026

WiiWare_lover said:
Hey, unrelated but may u answer to this message, I want to test if I get an Mail

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WiiWare_lover · Apr 19, 2026

ZodiaKGalXy said:
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Larsenv · Apr 22, 2026

Those answers are incorrect. The controls are stored as JPG for the HOME Menu. However, the manuals are on the shop

ZodiaKGalXy · Apr 27, 2026

Larsenv said:
Those answers are incorrect. The controls are stored as JPG for the HOME Menu. However, the manuals are on the shop

Yeah, that's precisely what I'm getting at. "Home menu jpg files showing game controls" or whatever they're called.

Would you know from your experience on how they'd be made?

Larsenv · Apr 27, 2026

ZodiaKGalXy said:
Yeah, that's precisely what I'm getting at. "Home menu jpg files showing game controls" or whatever they're called.

Would you know from your experience on how they'd be made?

They're easy to find in the game files, as they're standard JPG. They might be in a folder called HomeButton3 iirc

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