Saburo

(Wii)

Saburo is a Mii from the Wii.

You may get them confused with Saburo (Switch)!

Saburo (Wii) originally appeared as one of the 60 CPU Miis to be included with Wii Sports. Since then, he's appeared in Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Play: Motion, Wii Party, Wii Music, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Fit U, and Nintendogs+Cats as Mii data, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as premade models/textures. Note his absense from Wii Fit, which will be explained in this page's information section. In many of these games, his index ID is 000, however in Wii Music it is 41. His Mii data file is Common/SportsStatic/common.carc > CPUMii/cpu_mii_000.rcd in Wii Sports, Common/Static/common.carc > CPUMii/mii_000.rsd in Wii Sports Resort, Common/HealthStatic/common.carc > Mii/mii_000.rsd in Wii Fit Plus, Common/HealthStatic/common.carc > Mii/mii_000.ffsd in Wii Fit U, mii/cfsd/mii_000.cfsd in Nintendogs+Cats, and is Common/MusicStatic/common.carc > AppMii/cpu_mii_db41.rsd in Wii Music. Wii Party and Wii Play: Motion combine all 100 Mii data files into one larger file in the same ordering as Wii Sports Resort. This file is RFL/RSD/mii_rsd.bin.lz in Wii Party, and rfl/npc_rsd.bin.lz in Wii Play: Motion.

He has Mingling turned off. His Mii name in his Mii data file is さぶろう. In his ver3-format Mii data file, he was originally created on a Wii (1).

His Mii data file does not contain any unused data.

In Wii Music, his Mii data file is slightly different. While it's mostly the same as it is in Wii Sports Resort, it now includes a filled out Mii ID and console ID. His Mii ID is 80-4f-90-85 and his console ID is c2-3d-21-af. His Mii ID tells us he was created on August 30, 2006 at 9:42:44 AM.

Information

According to a September 2020 Nintendo leak about CPU Miis, Saburo (Wii)'s nationality is Japanese (Asian).

In the files for Wii Sports, his dominant arm for Baseball (Batting) is right-handed, Baseball (Pitching) is right-handed, and Tennis is left-handed. His unused dominant arm for Boxing is right-handed. His Baseball Pitching style is underhand. He's ranked 14 in Baseball, 6 in Boxing, and 6 in Tennis, where a lower rank value performs better. His group IDs are 0, 0, and 0.
In the files for Wii Sports Resort, his Wii country ID is 1, which all Miis are set to. His dominant arm for Table Tennis is right-handed. He's ranked 44 in Swordplay, 40 in Basketball, 65 in Table Tennis, and 28 in Cycling, where a lower rank value performs better.

Interestingly, despite Wii Fit containing almost all 60 CPU Miis from Wii Sports, one Mii is absent: Saburo (Wii). The reason for his absence is likely a mistake, as he was later re-added to the sequel, Wii Fit Plus. Saburo's index ID is 000 in almost all games he appears in, meaning he is often the very first Mii to appear in the files. The second Mii, with an index ID of 001, is Hiroshi. Wii Fit does reserve the first 60 Mii data files to the CPU Miis from Wii Sports, however Hiroshi appears twice in the files: once at ID 000 and again at ID 001 where he originally belongs. It is due to this that Saburo's absence from Wii Fit appears to be a mistake. As previously mentioned, this was fixed when Wii Fit Plus was released, and Saburo reappears with ID 000.

After defeating the champion of a sport in Wii Sports Resort, the next opponents you face are randomly selected CPU Miis. However, due to a bug in the code, Saburo can not randomly appear as an opponent after the champion. This is because the code for the game randomly selects a Mii from index IDs 00 to 99, but that search isn't inclusive of those two values, leaving out both Saburo (ID 00) and Marisa (ID 99) from the selection pool.

In Wii Party's Friend Connection game, the default score rankings establish a relationship between Saburo (Wii) and Miyu, with them being 2nd in the worst friendships category at 28 points (Kinda Chums).

In Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, inside the /motion/ folder is different folders for all the fighters' animations. Curiously, there is one folder named /saburo/ in this directory, containing nothing but an empty /body/ folder. While it would be fun to speculate that Saburo (Wii) was planned to be established as one of gaming's greatest icons as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros., the more likely reason for this folder's existence was that Saburo was used to test the Mii Fighters in an early stage of development.

While the names of the CPU Miis from Wii Sports Resort were also given to the CPU Sportsmates characters in Nintendo Switch Sports, version 1.2.0 of the game added 10 CPU Miis as an easter egg, activated by holding down L + ZL or R + ZR when on the CPU configuration screen. Saburo is one of the CPUs to have gotten a Mii version, however his Mii has been altered since his appearance on the Wii. Below is a comparison between his Wii appearance and his Switch appearance.

Image Gallery

Wii Recreation Instructions

Here's how to recreate this Mii on the Wii:

Names in Other Languages

USA English: Saburo

USA Spanish: Saburo

USA French: Saburo

USA Portuguese: Saburo

PAL English: Saburo

PAL Spanish: Saburo

PAL French: Saburo

PAL Portuguese: Saburo

PAL German: Saburo

PAL Italian: Saburo

PAL Dutch: Saburo

PAL Russian: Сабуро ("Saburo")

JPN Japanese: さぶろう ("Saburo") (Same as in Mii data file)

KOR Korean: 재혁 ("Jaehyuk")

CHN Chinese: Saburo

TWN Taiwanese: Saburo

Source: Nintendo Switch Sports (KOR Korean translation, USA/PAL Portuguese, PAL Russian/Dutch, TWN Taiwanese), Wii Sports Resort (All else)