Ripping Wii Startup Sound from BRSAR by ArcticJaguar725 at 1:50 AM EST on February 16, 2018
So I've been having problems trying to rip the sounds found in the Wii System Menu's BRSAR archive. The sound I'm looking for in particular is the sound that plays as soon as the Wii Menu is loaded (surprisingly not part of the actual BGM I've discovered). So far, all of the tools I've tried to use (including VGMToolbox) have either failed completely or fail to find the sound that I'm looking for. I believe it has a name of WIPL_SE_WII_START in the archive.
The Wii Menu music is all sequenced. The closest you'll probably ever come to an authentic rip is to dump it using Dolphin (unless you're going for a midi rip, in which case that should be possible I'd imagine).
...aaaaand that's what I thought. Ripping with Dolphin isn't an issue except that its volume for dumping audio seems to be significantly quiter than it should (Try dumping any one of the streamed files from Mario Party 4, then open the actual streamed file itself and you'll know what I'm talking about)
I mean, there's no real reason you can't just amplify the dumped audio yourself if it's too quiet. The worst case is when the audio clips (which it absolutely does on a real Wii, though line-in is probably the best you can do with that anyway).