A Wii Menu Electronic Manual but for the original Wii (update)

[Wiimw]

A Wii Menu Electronic Manual, but for the original Wii: Official release for the six main languages
Nintendo Wii

Some months ago, I made a Wii menu electronic manual but for the original Wii and put it on Internet Archive. Yesterday, I have finally finished to make the 6 main languages that are on the Wii: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German and Italian. The other language will be added in the future. I recommend to see all the description on Internet Archive and also the video. I also did this project so that others may reach God's word and to make them understand God's love for them. I will just give you a message that explains how much God loves you:

John 3:16–17

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

I recommend, as a christian, giving God a chance, as it will help, heal and free you from evil and will give you everlasting peace and joy.



Click on the icon to go to the main page of the manual

 

[Wiimw]

You may ask how I made this:

- I installed Showmiiwad and CustomizeMii

- I then extracted the wad of the Wii menu manual of vWii as a base and then also the wad of Wii menu manual of Wii mini.

- I then extracted, as a U8 Archive (in Showmiiwad by putting "unpack U8 archive", the necessary files, like this:
Wii Menu Manual 00000005.app go to the folder html EUR.arc you get the folders where there are the images and the

- from there you can edit the html files with a text editor (I use Notepad ) by changing the words and the images if you want to change them you can replace or edit them with (for example) paint.

- Once I have finished, I have packed again the files on Showmiiwad:
packed EUR.arc without Header and saved it as a *.* file (or it would have been saved as a .bin file, causing it to not work) and by NOT compressing it as lz77 put the EUR.arc file on the folder HTML where I firstly extracted it packed 00000005.app without Header and saved it again as a *.* File and by not compressing it as lz77 put the file with other .app files pack wad I've got the wad

- To change the ID (otherwise it would have replaced the Wii mini manual for vWii) I used CustomizeMii, where I extended the name of the wad (as it originally shows as incomplete for some languages, for example, in Italian, it shows as "manuale del" and not "manuale del menu Wii")

I then Installed it by using YAWMM and it perfectly worked.

For this project, for some things I had to make screenshots of the Wii menu and then adapting it to the dimension (even if it's not necessary) and had to make or edit some things or images.

I think it would have been really useful for people who needed a quick and rapid guide directly on Wii

 

[XFlak]

This looks neat! And I appreciate the explanation, but instead of distributing this in such an... unorthodox... way, have you considered a small patch script? rustwii or wiipy or sharpii could download the base vWii manual from NUS, then unpack the WAD, unpack the app u8 contents, then you apply your edits (I'd use sfk to automate text edits, but there's probably other ways), copy over custom images, etc. repack it the same way and then you could more freely and proudly share your efforts. I wonder if the WiiLink team might be interested in adding this to their arsenal, seems more in-line with their MO than mine\modmii's. Maybe you want to try reaching out, but I can't speak for them, they might not be interested

edit:
I forgot to mention that after downloading a vWii wad you'd want to convert it using a command like rustwii.exe or wiipy.exe wad convert --retail -o "out.wad" "in.wad", otherwise wad managers available today may not be able to install it (without further updates anyway, I don't actually recall if that was done to yawmme already or not in its pre-release)

 

[Wiimw]

Well, unfortunately, I understood almost nothing about what you said but I think you mean there could be a way to find a patch that makes a manual in the manual I created?

However, I've already talked about this manual in Wiilink forum to the moderators. I think they're not interested

 

[XFlak]

I was saying u could write a short script to create your manual without sharing the wad itself, which includes copywritten Nintendo content. A script could download the vWii manual to use as a base, so you're not providing it, then the script would apply all the same manual changes u did except automatically.

Same end result, but with a script you aren't breaking gbatemp rules or copyright laws (even though it hasn't been an issue for you it seems, yet anyway)

 

[Wiimw]

Sadly, idk how to make it but if you want you can create that. It would be really useful

 

[XFlak]

I'd help you if you went down that road but I wouldn't want to do it myself, this is your baby after all

You've already done the hard part, a build script is just a better delivery method

Anyway, if you decide to give it a shot lmk if u want help getting started.

 

[Wiimw]

I'll firstly end it for other languages