VGSources / Best Game Asset Extractors / BrawlCrate
What it is
BrawlCrate is a free, open-source Windows Wii file editor and a BrawlBox fork for Super Smash Bros. Brawl modding. It works with archives, models, textures, palettes, animations, audio, images, and collision data. Batch extraction and archive repacking are supported. Listed game file formats include PAC, PCS, PAIR, MRG, ARC, SZS, BRRES, BRANM, BRMDL, BRTEX, BRPLT, BRCHA, and BRTSA. Model formats include MDL0, DAE, PMD, and OBJ; texture formats include PNG, TGA, TIF, BMP, JPG, GIF, TEX0, and TPL. BrawlCrate incorporates a modified Color Smash tool. BrawlAPI uses IronPython for automation, context-menu additions, file opening and saving, user-defined file parsing, wrappers, and resource parsers. Versioned releases are published on GitHub, with v0.42 Hotfix 1 listed as latest. That release disables the API on Windows 7 and earlier and discontinued internal BrawlManager support.
Good, and not so good
- Batch extraction supported
- Archive repacking supported
- IronPython automation API
- Broad Wii asset format coverage
- LGPL-3.0 licensed open source
- Windows-only platform listing
- API disabled on Windows 7 and earlier
- Internal BrawlManager support discontinued
- Focused on specific listed formats
Who it suits
BrawlCrate suits Windows modders editing Super Smash Bros. Brawl and related Wii assets. It is especially useful when your files match its documented archive, model, and texture formats.
BrawlCrate combines Wii file editing with format-aware extraction, repacking, and scripting. Check your game assets against its supported formats and Windows requirements before using it.