Custom WWE 13 Wii Titantrons and Theme Songs

Custom WWE 13 Titantrons (and minitrons) and Theme Songs for Nintendo Wii.

WHAT YOU NEED:

First of all, if you plan to play this on your Wii console, you have to install the Homebrew Channel on your Wii as well as USB Loader GX and-or WiiFlow
(WiiFlow works best, but you pretty much have to install USB Loader GX
to get WiiFlow to work).

-Wii Scrubber
-WWE 13 iso (or WWE 12 iso if you wan't to mod '12)
-RAD Video Tools
-Windows Movie Maker (or any video editor)

TUTORIAL START

Assuming you have been a good student, you will now have all of the needed items
listed above.

1st: FINDING IN-GAME TITANTRONS

Open up Wii Scrubber and load your iso (button at top left). Once you have
loaded the WWE '13 iso, click the [+] on Partition 1, do the same for Movies
and Titantrons. Now you will see a crazy amount of .bik (bink) files.
.bik files are video files. You can find videos of all the titantrons, openening THQ logo
(which I replaced with the WWF RAW IS WAR intro), videos that play for Title matches
and you get the point.

2nd: IDENTIFYING IN-GAME TITANTRON FILES

Once you are in the titantrons folder and see all the .bik files, you are probably
scratching your head as you have no way to identify which tron is which other
than to export each file one by one (right click export). If you don't feel like spending
hours and hours trying to find the titantrons you want to replace, leave me a comment,
I have A LOT of the files identified.

3rd: WATCHING IN-GAME TITANTRONS

Once you have exported a .bik file, find it and open it up. It should open up
in RAD Video Tools/RAD Tools and start playing on its own. Most of the game's
titantrons are around 30 seconds because the game's code tells them to loop.

To help you out, one of the files I replaced (you can't add, only replace existing trons)
was file 326.bik (David Otunga), because he doesn't belong in a game or the biz LOL.

4th: UNDERSTANING TITANTRONS AND MINITRONS

Now that you have identified your .bik titantron to replace, you can see that
this Otunga tron, actually contains the minitrons as well (at the bottom)
--They are all actually ONE video and not 3 or 4. With this in mind, I have some
advice to give you. You will all probably want to actually add custom VIDEOS,
but I assure you, adding images is much easier than converting videos and finding-out
that the files are way too big, so fallow my advice if you want fast work, becuase
the fact is, you only see trons about 10% of the time during entrances and I am
sure 90% of you are here to learn how to add custom theme songs as we Wii owners
get ripped off with these games.

5th: HOW TO GET YOUR CUSTOM TRONS

Now that you have decided to fallow my sage advice, I will give you the dimensions of the entire tron (minitrons included). If you want your trons to look like the real trons, find a titantron video on YouTube, pause the video in the spots you like like maybe the "Shattered Dreams" part of Goldust's video (don't use full screen). Take a screenshot (prnt scrn button on your keyboard) and open up Windows Paint (Paint). Now click hit the Paste command and your image should now be in Paint.
Crop the video with the Select tool barely excluding the timeline on the bottom.
The main titantron dimensions are 638x346 (doesn't have to be exact).

6th: MAKING CUSTOM TRONS

Go to image (on toolbar), attributes and you will see dimensions.
Make sure you are in pixels and enter 638x578 then press OK.
Your "titantron should now fit the drawing board width nearly perfect and
you will also notice that there is some blank space at the bottom.
This space at the bottom is where your minitron images will go.
The bottom space should be devided pretty much in half
just keeping the right half about a true cm bigger or just equal.
To divide in half, just draw a line.

Now open Paint again from the program icon on your start menu or desktop
so that you now have Paint opened twice. Find some good images to use
as your minitrons, paste them in paint and resize them so that they are about
5x3 true inches, just get close, it doesn't have to be exact at the moment.
(if you want to measure your image just go to attributes again and enter
343x233 which is the near perfect dimension for either minitron).
Now resize the board so that only the minitron image fits and copy all.

Head back over to your main tron file which should already be open in your other
instance of the Paint program. Paste your minitron and fit it in the minitron space
at the bottom (under the titantron). The main minitron is the right one.
If you want a better idea, reopen the .bik file and you will see how it is set up.
Now do the same for the left minitron. Now that you have a full titantron pack
you save it. Now if you don't want your tron to only be one image, you simply
redo the 5th step, copy that over the first main tron aka TITANtron and
go to SAVE AS so that you don't overwrite the first one you saved.
Just name the trons whatever you wish, it doesn't matter.
Don't make too many, I actually usually only make once, because like I said,
unless you are creating a tron of hot girls kissing, and want to focus the tron
all throughout the entrance, you only really see the trons about 10% of the time or less.

6B: 

Too many image files in the next step will unnecessarily increase your file size
and if you want most of your custom theme song (mp3s increase file size),
having few images helps to keep file size small. The reason you want small
file sizes is so that you can later fit them all in the game. If you have finalized
tron videos that are 20mb each, you will only be able to fit a couple.
In-game trons are around 4-5mb so try to stay at par and if your custom
tron files are smaller (like 2mb), then you can use the space you save
(once you replace  4 or 5 orignal 5mb files with your 2mb files) those extra MBs
you have left can be used for when you want to use more tron images
or be able to use most of your theme song.

TIP: a video with one tron package image and a 1.40 minute theme song,
will be around 3MB. One image with a 2 minute theme will be around
4MB. 3-4 images with 1.40 minute theme song will be around 3-4MB.
One image with 1.20 minute theme song will be around 2MB.
You will get a better idea once you produce your first tron.
Entrances like Goldust's will obviously require a longer theme
unless you don't mind the loop after a minute (some themes
you won't even notice the loop, such as Sting's TNA theme
or Kevin Nash's TNA theme).

7th: VIDEO TRONS

Once you are happy that you created a trons package, you open up a video editor
and I suggest Windows Movie Maker to better fallow the tutorial.

Now you import your titantron package (what you created in Paint).
Now import your theme song. I use Tubidy.mobi to aquire theme songs,
as they are usually under 2MB, but if you want better quality, use 4shared.com
or your choice. Now that your files are imported to WMM, drag them to the timeline
which is at the bottom (images on top section, music in middle section).

8th: CUSTOM THEME SONGS

REMEMBER earlier I mentioned that the game's code loops the short 30 second
in-game titantrons? What does this mean? It means your custom titantron
SHOULD NOT be 30 seconds! You don't want the amazing theme song of
superstars such as AJ Styles, Goldust, Goldberg, etc. to loop every 30 seconds
now DO YOU? So, the duration of the video you are making in your video editor
should be the duration of the superstar's entrance and most are around 1.40 minutes,
but of course there are exceptions and this is why having few images and the
tubidy mp3s help (they keep file size small) read step 6B again if you like.

Chances are your theme song is over 2 minutes long (I used the entire TNA
Kurt Angle theme song and in exchange, I used only one tron package (one image).

If you think or know that you don't need the entire theme song, trim it.

WMM Help: To trim you use the timeline marker as the "blade." Drag the marker to where
you want the theme to end. Select the theme song in the timeline, go to clip on the toolbar, then hit trim end. This will remove everything to the right of the marker.

Now that you have decided on the length of your theme song, stretch the length
of the image so that it matches the length of the theme song. Once you are happy
with this, go to file save, then file publish (or similar feature in another editor).

If you fallowed my amazing advice of using few images and kept the length
of your video to around 1.30-1.40 minutes, (remember there are 60 seconds
in a minute. 1.40 means 1 minute 40 seconds), then your video should publish
fairly quickly- usually in 1-2 minutes.

9th: BIK VIDEO

Once your video is published using WMM or your choice, you launch RAD Video Tools
which is also named RAD Tools in some cases. In RAD, open the video you made
and click the "BINK IT" button at the bottom. Now you will see  A LOT of options, but
you only need to pay attention to 1; "Compress Settings." Find where it says
"Compress to a % of the original." If your original video (WMM or whatever you chose)
is fairly big file size like 4MB, you can compress to 90 or 80%, but you don't have to.
I usually compress all of mine with 90% even if they are already small files.

TIP: You can make other videos while this one is BINKED

10th: ADDING YOUR TRON/THEME TO THE GAME

Once your video is BINKED, we go ALL the way back to Wii Scrubber.
Find the titantron file you want to replace, I suggest replacing the 326.bik Otunga
titantron file. Right click on it and select replace. Find your custom tron which
is now a .bik file and click the open button. A notice will tell you the 326 file
is being replaced and will also say "now reparsing." All of the directories you opened
will then collapse. Once this happens, it means you have successfully added your
custom titantron with theme song into the game. To verify your amazing
accomplishment was actually accomplished, reopen the titantrons directory
(Partition 1, Movies, Titantrons) and find file 326.bik. Extract the file wherever
you wish. Locate the file (outside of Scrubber) and open it. If your custom tron
and theme song plays, then you're all set.

11th: FINALLY...

Once you have added the custom trons you wanted, you close Wii Scrubber
and you are all done! I assume you already know how or can find out
how to play isos on your Wii or emulator.

Once you start-up your game, go to the create-an-entrance. Go to music
and set the music to none. WHY? Because your music is in your tron.
Now go to movies and find the David Otunga tron or any other tron you replaced.
Select it and your new custom titantron and theme song should start playing
and you will probably jump and smile and want to add more.

DOWNSIDE: Have you ever seen a titantron play after you win a match?
Me either. That is why your custom theme won't play, but I don't really mind
as the CAW win celebrations suck in these games.

ENJOY!

Don't stay up 24 hours adding your custom trons. Even after playing
your newly modified WWE '13 game on your Wii or Emulator, you can open up
the iso you modified (and should still have on your PC or Mac), and keep adding trons
without erasing any game save data.

If you don't feel like extracting all of the in-game .bik files to find out which is which,
leave me a comment or ask via Twitter @iNNCwrestling.

I also have a few .bik ID'd files listed at

http://wrestlinnc.webs.com/apps/donations/

and I have more besides those.

If you appreciate the tutorial and the work I put into identifying the .bik files,
please donate at the link above.  It may seem easy, but many hours went into
identifying the .bik files. Like I stated before, I have a lot more identified if you
would like more.