Wiimms Mario Kart Fun – Tutorial

Here is a short tutorial on how to create a copy of “Wiimms Mario Kart Fun” ready to play on your Wii (or emulator)

What you need before you start

– Latest release of Wiims Mario Kart Fun files from here: http://wiki.tockdom.com/wiki/Wiimms_Mario_Kart_Fun

– Mario Kart Wii ISO file NTSC or PAL version (as example PAL version might be called something like “Mario_Kart_PAL_Wii.iso”). Check out Amazon, if you don’t own a copy yet.

How to patch your ISO file

• Extract the Mario Kart Fun archive you downloaded; at the point of writing the file was called mkw-fun-2019-10.v1.txz.
• Copy the ISO file into the extracted folder
• if you are using Linux (or Mac) make sure you run “sudo chmod a+x *.sh” to make the scripts executable
• Then you start the “create-image” scripts
  Windows: “create-image.bat“
  Linux/Mac: “./create-image.sh“
• 1st question asks about language during the creation process, type “de” for German, “en” for English, “es” for Spanish. Default is English. Input your preferred language or directly press Enter.
• 2nd question is about language within the game itself.  The following options are available:
  G : Deutsch
  U : English (America)
  E : English (Europe)
  M : Español (América)
  S : Español (Europa)
  Q : Français (Amérique) => aucun message de chat
  F : Français (Europe) => aucun message de chat
  I : Italiano => messaggi di chat
  J : 日本人 (Japanese) => no chat messages
  K : 한국의 (Korean) => no chat messages, no Wiimmfi texts
  If you don’t want to force any changes in-game language related, select “-“, as I do here. Type “-” and Enter.
• 3rd question is about fallback language. Not sure why this is required as we selected no changes just before, but nevertheless, we type “E” for English (Europe), as I am using the PAL version here, and then Enter.
• 4th question is about track language; many options to choose from, let’s go for the default option, which is the native language related to each track. Type “x” and Enter.
• 5th question is about translating names of custom tracks. As we have just chosen native language names before, lets select “no” and press Enter.
• 6th question is about the output format, various options possible. I go here with a standard ISO format. Type “iso” and press Enter.
• 7th question is about if you want to shared the existing save game from your Mario Kart Wii or a new dedicated, unrelated save game. I prefer a new save game so lets type “yes” and press Enter.
• The script shows you then a summary, here is ours::
  ==========
  Summary
  ===========* Language (de,en,es): en
  * Force game language or ‘-‘ (G,U,E,M,S,Q,F,I,J,K,-): –
  * Fall-back language (G,U,E,M,S): e
  * Language of track names:: x
  * Translate also names of custom tracks (no,yes): no
  * Image file format (iso,ciso,wdf,wbfs,gcx,wia,riiv): iso
  * Use private savegame (no,yes): yes* Continue with these settings? (no,yes) [yes]:

  Yes, looks good, let’s press Enter.

• Then the script is doing its magic this might take a while….. if everything went well, it should output something like1 iso image(s) created
  2019-11-03 19:14:00 .. 19:23:51 (9m+51s)
• That’s it. You can now either copy the ISO on a SD or harddrive connected to your Wii and load the game via USB Loader or load the ISO directly in an emulator like Dolphin. Have fun.