Opening.bnr

Opening.bnr is a file related to Wii homebrew development. The file is one of the first read by the Wii when a new DVD is inserted, and it is used to display the banner (the channel animation). Even though it shares the name with the file on the GameCube, the content of the file has no resemblance to the GC Opening.bnr file.

Description

Opening.bnr consists of two parts, an IMET header which is (almost) identical to the latter of part A (starting from Zeroes_1) in Content.bin (see Content.bin file structure). However, the last 16 bytes contain some randomly-looking bytes, most likely an MD5 sum.

Opening.bnr is also stored in the console specific encrypted area of content.bin (a copy of icon.bin is in the SD encrypted area). For some of the channels a generic opening.bnr (which doesn't resemble the actual banner) is stored in the NAND under the \META tree as TITLE.MET. Their purpose is unknown. The proper ones can be found in the unencrypted NAND as one of the .app files, content index 0 (you can get this from the TMD). Also some of those the offset to the IMET header is at 0x80 instead of 0x40.

After the header follows an U8 archive. This is an archive consisting of the following contents:

Full Path	Description
/meta/	Directory
/meta/banner.bin	Contains the images and animation displayed when the channel is selected.
/meta/icon.bin	Contains the images and animation displayed when the channel is in the menu.
/meta/sound.bin	Contains the audio that is played when the channel is selected.

banner.bin and icon.bin

The banner.bin and icon.bin files are LZ77 compressed U8 archives themselves, each with an IMD5 header, containing the MD5 of the file.

More information on LZ77 compression can be found on Wikipedia. Example C# source is available in the Tools and Example Source section.

The banner.bin and icon.bin U8 archives have a file format like this:

/arc/
/arc/anim/
/arc/anim/*.brlan
/arc/blyt/
/arc/blyt/*.brlyt
/arc/timg/
/arc/timg/*.tpl

TPL Files

The TPL files are textures. They can be read by the tplx program from the gcube library.

The format is also described in YAGCD at http://pabut.homeip.net:8000/yagcd/chap14.html#sec14.4.

brlan Files

brlan files are described in the Wii Animations section.

brlyt Files (Layout)

brlyt files are described in the Wii Animations section.

sound.bin

sound.bin has an IMD5 header, currently 3 formats have been discovered.

Format	Hex Identifier	Description
BNS	0x42 0x4E 0x53 0x20 (BNS )	Similar to the brstm format, always in the NGC-DSP ADPCM format, supports having an intro sound and a loop point.
WAV	0x52 0x49 0x46 0x46 (RIFF)	Standard wav/pcm format, only plays once. Can be LZ77 compressed.
AIFF	0x46 0x4F 0x52 0x4D (FORM)	Standard AIFF/pcm format, only plays once. Can be LZ77 compressed.

Header Formats

IMD5

typedef struct {
	u32 imd5; // 'IMD5'
	u32 filesize; //size of rest of file
	u8 zeroes[8]; //padding
	u8 crypto[16]; //MD5 of rest of file
} IMD5;

IMET

typedef struct {
    u8 zeroes[128]; // padding
    u32 imet; // "IMET"
    u8 unk[8];  // 0x0000060000000003 fixed, unknown purpose
    u32 sizes[3]; // icon.bin, banner.bin, sound.bin
    u32 flag1; // unknown
	u8 names[7][84]; // JP, EN, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL
    u8 zeroes_2[0x348]; // padding
    u8 crypto[16]; // MD5 of 0x40 to 0x640 in header. crypto should be all 0's when calculating final MD5
} IMET;

Tools and Example Source

Name	Language	Author	Description
parse-opening.c	C	magicus	Extracts the contents of the opening.bnr file to a file structure.
LZ77	Python	Marcan	Decompresses LZ77 files.
LZ77Stream.cs	C#	Atacama	C# Stream object for decompressing LZ77 Files.
BNRSound.cs	C#	Atacama	C# Class which processes sound.bin so it can be read as PCM data.
tplx	C	monk	Command line tool included with gcube that extracts the textures in tpl files to seperate tga files.
bnrstruct.c	C	dasda	dasda's structures for the brlan and brlyt files
bannersigner.c	C	icefire	Adds IMET/IMD5 headers to U8 files. IMET is partially broken.