Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BRSAR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BRSAR to another file type
To convert your BRSAR file to another format, you need BrawlCrate or other Game software.
Convert a file to BRSAR
To convert other file formats to the "Audio Archive Container" file type, you need software like BrawlCrate or a similar tool.
About BRSAR files
A .BRSAR file is a Binary Revolution Sound Archive, a proprietary container format developed by Nintendo specifically for the Wii console (codenamed "Revolution"). Unlike a standard audio file, a .BRSAR acts as a comprehensive database, packaging hundreds or thousands of individual sound effects, voice clips, instrument banks (swar), and music sequences (rseq) into a single encrypted or compressed blob. Because this format is heavily optimized for the Wii's specialized DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and often uses Big-Endian byte ordering, it is completely unreadable by standard media players like Windows Media Player or generic archiving tools like WinRAR. Users typically encounter this file when modding Wii games or attempting to rip game soundtracks for personal listening. To make the audio usable, the archive must be unpacked and the internal streams converted. For editing and sound design, converting to WAV preserves the raw quality of the samples. For casual listening or uploading to the web, converting extracted streams to MP3 or AAC is the most practical solution. Our tools allow you to parse the archive structure and convert the internal audio data into standard formats without needing complex SDKs.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BRSAR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BRSAR file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use BrawlCrate or similar software from the "Wii Game Audio Archive" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MIDI, AAC, TTA, AU, WV, DTS, MID, FLAC, RA, MP3, PCM or WAV files to BRSAR, try BrawlCrate or another comparable tool in the "Wii Game Audio Archive" category.
The BRSAR Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BRSAR converter.