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ASH is a file format used in the Wii. They're mostly used for the Wii Menu, however can be found in random DOLs, Animal Crossing: City Folk DLC and My Pokémon Ranch. It even is used on Flipnote Studio for the DSi, for sample flipnotes. There is not much documentation on this format, and a decompressor for them originally made by crediar seemed to be made by using disassembled code and recompiled as a Windows executable. The magic number for the format is "ASH0" and might be comparable to the "Yaz0" (SZS File) and "Yay0" formats used for games (SZS files still seem to be used in Nintendo's recent games).

ASH is a file format used in the Wii. They're mostly used for the Wii Menu, however can be found in random DOLs, Animal Crossing: City Folk DLC and My Pokémon Ranch. It even is used on Flipnote Studio for the DSi, for sample flipnotes. There is not much documentation on this format, and a decompressor for them originally made by crediar seemed to be made by using disassembled code and recompiled as a Windows executable. The magic number for the format is "ASH0" and might be comparable to the "Yaz0" (SZS File) and "Yay0" formats used for games (SZS files still seem to be used in Nintendo's recent games). We have no idea what "ASH" stands for in this context.

The decompressor works for most ASH files, but it crashes when trying to decompress files for My Pokémon Ranch. It's possible to get the decompressed data for that game by doing a RAM dump of Dolphin, though. We have found an official ASH decompressor in the Wii SDK (in the Software Keyboard library).

The decompressor works for most ASH files, but it crashes when trying to decompress files for My Pokémon Ranch. It's possible to get the decompressed data for that game by doing a RAM dump of Dolphin, though. We have found an official ASH decompressor in the Wii SDK (in the Software Keyboard library).