Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Hey!
I have always wanted to do this as I absolutely love the atmosphere of the galaxy games, but I always thought UI related stuff for this game wasn't my thing and that I'd suck ass at it. I barely knew anything about how .brlyt's worked before this, but basically most of the buttons were made by using picture panes.
Then I actually gave it a go and I got pretty far! I'm really happy with how it's turning out, even if some elements look a bit sloppy or unfinished (Mario Kart Channel related stuff especially...).
For Title.szs I have done a very minor animation edit where the "Press A" text pulses much slower, I thought this'd fit the aesthetic more lol. The video that plays instead of the commercial was straight up copied from Galaxy 1's files, as MKWII and that game use the same formats for it's videos (.thp).
For Earth.szs I wanted to use one of the actual skyboxes from Galaxy 1, but these sadly use vertex colouring and shaders to give them the colours they have (the skyboxes are just black without them) which I have no idea how to work with. I re-scaled and used Rainbow Road's skybox instead. The model in the background is just the miniature version of Good Egg Galaxy in Galaxy 1 (the one you see in the observatory).
UI sound effects were done by modifying the entries to use RWSD's instead of RSEQ's (for headphone users that's why it sounds a tiiiny bit glitchy at times.).
The background of my MenuSingle.szs uses the vanilla scrolling animation, but I adjusted the .brlan to make it much slower and adjusted the .brlyt to allow the use of a custom .tpl i've added, it scrolls infinitely and the texture is in an IA8 format (which means it only supports black and white, you can adjust the colouring settings in the .brlyt which is how i gave it that blueish colour. it's better than constantly having to export the texture and edit the hue.)
The options screen has an image in the background which I added by adding a big picture pane over the vanilla one, there are other templates available for this if you're interested in using a custom image background.
The Mario Kart Channel stuff is heavily unfinished so sorry about that. The music playing in the MK Channel and the Rankings screen where both sequenced, so I changed them both to use external .brstm's.
Coincidentally I was already working on this a week before Galaxy 1 and 2 were announced in the Direct so it worked out I guess lmao.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:07 Title Screen (Title.szs)
0:54 Single Player Menu (MenuSingle.szs)
2:20 Wifi Menu (Earth.szs + Globe.szs + MenuSingle.szs)
4:09 Options Menu (MenuOther.szs)
5:31 (Unfinished) Mario Kart Channel, Time Trial Rankings (Channel.szs)
6:53 Outro
#MarioKartWii #SuperMarioGalaxy #MKWiiMods
Hey!
I have always wanted to do this as I absolutely love the atmosphere of the galaxy games, but I always thought UI related stuff for this game wasn't my thing and that I'd suck ass at it. I barely knew anything about how .brlyt's worked before this, but basically most of the buttons were made by using picture panes.
Then I actually gave it a go and I got pretty far! I'm really happy with how it's turning out, even if some elements look a bit sloppy or unfinished (Mario Kart Channel related stuff especially...).
For Title.szs I have done a very minor animation edit where the "Press A" text pulses much slower, I thought this'd fit the aesthetic more lol. The video that plays instead of the commercial was straight up copied from Galaxy 1's files, as MKWII and that game use the same formats for it's videos (.thp).
For Earth.szs I wanted to use one of the actual skyboxes from Galaxy 1, but these sadly use vertex colouring and shaders to give them the colours they have (the skyboxes are just black without them) which I have no idea how to work with. I re-scaled and used Rainbow Road's skybox instead. The model in the background is just the miniature version of Good Egg Galaxy in Galaxy 1 (the one you see in the observatory).
UI sound effects were done by modifying the entries to use RWSD's instead of RSEQ's (for headphone users that's why it sounds a tiiiny bit glitchy at times.).
The background of my MenuSingle.szs uses the vanilla scrolling animation, but I adjusted the .brlan to make it much slower and adjusted the .brlyt to allow the use of a custom .tpl i've added, it scrolls infinitely and the texture is in an IA8 format (which means it only supports black and white, you can adjust the colouring settings in the .brlyt which is how i gave it that blueish colour. it's better than constantly having to export the texture and edit the hue.)
The options screen has an image in the background which I added by adding a big picture pane over the vanilla one, there are other templates available for this if you're interested in using a custom image background.
The Mario Kart Channel stuff is heavily unfinished so sorry about that. The music playing in the MK Channel and the Rankings screen where both sequenced, so I changed them both to use external .brstm's.
Coincidentally I was already working on this a week before Galaxy 1 and 2 were announced in the Direct so it worked out I guess lmao.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:07 Title Screen (Title.szs)
0:54 Single Player Menu (MenuSingle.szs)
2:20 Wifi Menu (Earth.szs + Globe.szs + MenuSingle.szs)
4:09 Options Menu (MenuOther.szs)
5:31 (Unfinished) Mario Kart Channel, Time Trial Rankings (Channel.szs)
6:53 Outro
#MarioKartWii #SuperMarioGalaxy #MKWiiMods
