New Super Mario Randomizer Wii
How to use
Notice
- Some puzzles involve enemies may not be solvable (Such as 7-Ghost House's Secret Exit). An update is planned to address this.
- RANDOMIZER NOT CONSOLE VERTIFIED. Play it at your own risk if you intended to play it on the actual hardware.
- RANDOMIZER CONFIRMED TO HAVE LAG AND CAN CAUSE CRASHES! Too many sprites in an area will cause lag and crashes. Updates is being worked on for optimizing performance.
Prerequest
Python 3.x
This program require Python 3.x to run.
If you do not know what "Python" is or you do not have Python 3.x, download it Here
(Click on the button, it will download the most suitable version for your computer)
Windows user may download the latest version of Python at the Windows Store.
(Python 2.x is not supported and may not work)
(Only tested with Python >=3.9. Other version is not guarenteed to work)
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Whether it is in physical form (CD) or digital form (ISO), as long as you have the game,
it's OK.
Pirated game is strongly discouraged. Please obtain the game legitiumately.
In the following guide, "the game" will be used to represent New Super Mario Bros Wii
Dolphin Emulator
A Wii and Gamecube emulator available on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Download it here
1. Obtain the program
Go to https://github.com/HBroHei/NSMRWii/releases/
Download the top "NSMRW_release_vx.x.zip" file (just click on it)
File name examples: "NSMRW_release_v1.6.zip", "NSMRW_release_v5.1.zip"
In the following guide, "Root folder" will be used to represent where the program is
i.e. the folder which contains "Start.bat", "Start" and "main.py"
2. Place the "Stage" folder into the Root folder
Extract the "Stage" folder from the game If you have no idea on how to do this, follow this:
- Follow the guide at here. Choose your method and extract the games file
- Once the game file is obtained, go to DATA/files. Locate the "Stage" folder.
3. Create a configuration file for the randomizer
Go to the Randomizer page From there, you can choose what to randomize.
- Hover / click on the item for description
Alternative: Create the configuration file by youeself.
See here
4. Move the config file
Once you are satisfied with the randomize ruleset, Click the "Generate" button at the bottom.
A file named "Config.json" will be downloaded.
Move the download file to the Root folder.
5. Run the program
You are all set to randomize your level.
ON WINDOWS: Open "Start.bat".
ON LINUX: Open "Start.sh"
ON MAC: Open "randomizer_basic.py" with Python Launcher (3.x)
(Note that the launcher version must be 3.x. The built-in Python for MacOS will not work.)
6. Play the game
6.1 Method 1: Direct file replacement
Move the "Stage" folder to its orginal position (inside the game's file)
(Replace the orginal files)
Move back to the game's root folder (i.e. the folder that contains "DATA" and "UPDATE" folders) (Not the program's root folder)
Navigate to DATA/sys/, and open main.dol with Dolphin Emulator
6.2 Method 2: Riivolution Patch
Riivolution patches is a flexible way of patching the game. You can either set up Riivolution manually, or use the built-in auto copy function.
6.2.1 Built-in autocopying
This program now have a configuration file for automatically copying the shuffled levels to a desinated folder.
1. Open config_autoCopy.json
2. Edit enable_auto_copy to true, like so:
"enable_auto_copy":true,
3. Set riivolution_folder to the path for the root SD card folder (the folder that contains the riivoluton folder), like so:
"riivolution_folder":"G:/folder_name/"
4. Save the file, and run the randomiser. The shuffled levels should be copied to the specified path.
6.2.2 Manuel copying
Follow the guide in the "New Super Mario Bros Wii" section in here
(The levels being all the content in the "Stage_Shuffled" folder. Just copy and paste ALL the content in the "Stage_Shuffled" folder into the "nsmb" folder)