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How to Extract Mii's on your Mac

by Ian Bogost March 27, 2007

categories: Casual Games , Console & PC Games

Ian Mii My 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.

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

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