Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BWAV file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BWAV to another file type
To convert BWAV audio files to another format, you need BrawlBox or other Audio software.
Convert a file to BWAV
To convert other file formats to the "Game Audio File" file type, you need software like BrawlBox or a similar tool.
About BWAV files
The .BWAV file is a proprietary audio container used to store sound effects and background music for Nintendo video games, most notably on the Wii console. Modders and game developers typically use specialized open-source software like BrawlBox to open, edit, or extract these files from game archives. Standard media players and web browsers completely fail to open .BWAV files because the format relies on console-specific hardware encoding and proprietary metadata. This makes the files impossible to play or preview on a standard computer without specialized reverse-engineering tools. To make the audio usable in video editors or media players, users must convert .BWAV files to standard target formats like WAV, MP3, or OGG. Be aware that converting to consumer formats like MP3 will permanently strip out the custom loop points designed for infinite in-game music playback. Because this is a closed, proprietary game asset format, standard online converters fail to process it.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BWAV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert BWAV file to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A, AIFF, OPUS, ALAC, APE or WV, you can use BrawlBox or similar software from the "Nintendo Game Audio Storage" 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 BWAV, try BrawlBox or another comparable tool in the "Nintendo Game Audio Storage" category.
The BWAV 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 BWAV converter.