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How to Extract Mii's on your Mac
March 27, 2007 - by Ian Bogost

Ian MiiMy Mii obsession continues. Here's how to extract Mii's and use them on your computer. This a Mac OS X only thing, sorry PC goons.

  1. Go get the Mii Transfer application. Make sure Bluetooth is on before you run it.
  2. Load Mii's onto your Wiimote from your console
  3. Run Mii Transfer and save them to files
  4. Open the .mii binary files up in Mii Editor (use File/Load).
  5. Click File again in Mii Editor and extract a Jpeg.

The resulting images are NOT perfect (for example, the hair falls behind rather than in front of the eyebrows,a and the small beard on my Mii at right is too wide), but they are close. I wish I would have discovered this before screengrabbing all those American Idols.

Click through for some Mii's I made and extracted.

Bob Ross
Bobross

Miss Piggy
Piggy

Fire Ant
Fire Ant Mii

Cyclops
Cyclops Mii

Inverso, the upside-down guy
Inverso Mii




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