Can somebody explain to me how to rip files from games?

[MartianWaluigi]

I'm still pretty new to all this myself, but I have had luck with ripping models from the Galaxy games, the trinity of stuff which I use are SZS tools, bmd view and Wii Scrubber. One problem I ran into was with my iso, which I had not properly reconstructed after ripping which rendered many of my extracted files as broken. Once I went back and tried again with the rip things worked out just fine.

There is a lot of outdated information out there and it can be kind of confusing at times.

If anyone has any specific questions feel free to ask, I'll do my best to answer them!