Nintendo SDK Tools

A simple collection of development tools for Wii, 3DS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch.

For complete collection of Nintendo SDK's with everything, check out Rare Gaming Dump.

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Dev tools are obtained from the following SDK's:

Console	Location	Size
Wii	Rare Gaming Dump/Nintendo/Wii/SDK/Revolution SDK 3.3.zip	1.12 GiB
3DS	Rare Gaming Dump/Nintendo/3DS/SDKs/3DSSDK.megazarf/content/CTR_SDK-11_6_1-20180622-en.zip	4.39 GiB (megazarf), 190 MiB (zip)
3DS (NW)	Rare Gaming Dump/Nintendo/3DS/SDKs/3DSSDK.megazarf/content/NintendoWareForCtr-3_7_6-SDK11_4_0-20170428-en.zip	--- (same megazarf), 305 MiB (zip)
Wii U	Rare Gaming Dump/Nintendo/Wii U/Developer/NintendoWareForCafe-1_14_8-SDK2_13_01-20151020-en.7z	400 MiB
Switch	Rare Gaming Dump/Nintendo/Switch/Switch SDK - [2017 - 2023]/NintendoSDK+NWv13.0.0.7z	7.26 GiB

That's 13.1 GiB total! To save your time when downloading only those tools, I removed many extra stuffs such as documents, reducing to 849 MiB.

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Revolution - Wii

• 3DEditor
• EffectMaker
• LayoutEditor
• NW4R_fontcvtr
• SoundMaker

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CTR - 3DS

• CTR_FontConverter
• NW4C_3DEditor
• NW4C_SoundMaker
• NW_EffectMaker
• NW_FontConverter
• NW_LayoutEditor
• PCViewer

CTR_FontConverter exports fonts as BCFNT, a binary CTR font used in many games.

NW_FontConverter exports fonts as BFFNT, a binary Café font used in the following games:

• Rhythm Heaven Megamix (US) / Rhythm Paradise Megamix (EU)
• Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (US) / Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. (EU)
• Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions
• Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey

Not compatible with Wii U and Switch games, so use the font converter tools below instead.

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Café - Wii U

• NW4F_3DEditor
• NW4F_FontConverter
• NW4F_LayoutEditor
• NW4F_SoundMaker
• NW_EffectMaker

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NX - Nintendo Switch

• 3DEditor
• EffectMaker
• FontConverter
• LayoutEditor
• SoundMaker

The first 4 tools are in the Graphics folder, SoundMaker is in the Audio folder.

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Wave Audio Converter Tools

• RVL: CommandLineTools → nw4r_waveconv.exe
• CTR: CommandLineTools → ctr_WaveConverter32.exe
• Café: SoundMaker → NW4F_WaveConverter.exe
• NX: Audio → AtkTools → WaveConverter.exe