Help:Tools/wszst

wszst

Author(s)	Wiimm
License	GPLv2
Written in	C
Platform support	Cross-platform
Website	https://szs.wiimm.de/wszst/

wszst is a set of tools for Nintendo Wii formats, some of which are still used in modern Nintendo games. In particular, it is a fast and efficient Yaz0 (de)compression tool.

Setup

Download the latest version from the official website.

Usage

wszst is a CLI tool. For help with using the command line, see Help:Using the command line.

Note: by convention, file extensions that start with an s are usually used for Yaz0-compressed files.

Decompress

wszst decompress {compressed file} {decompressed file}

Example

Decompress an sbactorpack with:

wszst decompress Actor/Pack/LinkTagAnd.sbactorpack Actor/Pack/LinkTagAnd.bactorpack

wszst decompress Actor/Pack/LinkTagAnd.sbactorpack you_can_give_it_the_output_file_whatever_name_you_want.bactorpack

Compress

wszst compress {uncompressed file} {compressed file}

Example

Compress an uncompressed bactorpack with:

wszst decompress Actor/Pack/LinkTagAnd.bactorpack Actor/Pack/LinkTagAnd.sbactorpack