Help with CSP issues?

[The Following]

First, I want to apologize in advance if there's already a topic here with this same idea... I've gone through 20+ pages and seen nothing like this...

Alrighty then, let's get started...

Like most people on this forum and around the internet, I'm having a difficult and quite frustrating time trying to get my Character Portraits for the Character Select Screen to work... I've honestly read dozens of topics and more posts than I care to count and I got nowhere... I have Gecko OS, but I use Riivolution 1.04.. Also, I don't use ANY custom screen pack and I did not rearrange anything on the CSS... All I care to do is edit the Character Icon Pictures and Character Select Portraits... that being said... EVERYONE seems to have a problem here or there that SEEM really similar, but the help offered on posts doesn't help everyone...

One person might say, "Well make sure you're common5.pac is in the pf/system folder." and someone might reply, "and make sure it does or does not have _en at the end"

Some people said to reduce the size of the common5.pac and try that or if you're using Gecko OS to put the sc_selcharacter.pac in pf/menu2...

Others said to make sure the photos were the right size and all this other stuff you can check using BrawlBox..

I just want to say.. I've done ALL of that... I've read just about every tutorial that I've seen people link in their messages offering help and followed all the advice I've read perfectly and for some reason, I still get nothing... and all my character textures and stage textures work...

So my idea is this... Everyone who has WORKING custom CSP's... instead of posting what you think my problem could be (I do appreciate the help though), could you kindly post the following...

1. What version of Gecko OS or Riivolution you're using.
2. If you're using Riivolution, what hooks (or whatever those things are called) do you have enabled or disabled.
3. The size and EXACT location of your common5.pac or sc_selcharacter.pac (name all paths starting from the drive your SD Card is located in, all the way to the .pac file you use).
4. Whether your .pac file does or doesn't have an "_en" or someother suffix after the name.
5. What version of BrawlBox you use (not sure why, but some people say that matters).
6. Whether or not you're using a custom screen pack.
7. If you're using an SD or SDHC card, and what size it is.

I may be forgetting something so I'll update the list if necessary, but I think if anyone posts all of these things, then people could mimic the look of someone else's WORKING SD Card folders..

They might see something they haven't done, or they might delete what they have and try X's collection of what he or she uses and see if that works for them as well.

I don't want to sound pushy, so I apologize if I do, but I REALLY wanna get this to work and I think this method could help many others too

[The Following]

so it's been a few days and there are plenty of views on this topic... I would think at least one person who viewed this would have working CSP's and be able to help me out... Can someone help?

[xion]

ok well I figured how to do this.I use gecko btw umm.......what size is the csp the character face should be around 80x54 ingame around 48x56 and the csp shuold be 128x160.I may not be much help oh also are you making sure the csp your using is a png?

1:I use gecko 1.9
2

3:the size shouldnt matter as you keep adding more it will get bigger at times but mine is[11,483]kb it is in pf system

4:it should just be common5.pac

5:v.0.63

6:yes i am i am using the flaming purple one someone made,i forgot T_T by who

7:your SD card should be only 2 gigabits it wont work with Sd cards over 2 and SDHC dont work is what everyone says i have yet to try it though

[The Following]

I haven't tried your method yet, but I'm about to.. i just wanna say THANK YOU for replying and offering your help.

EDIT: now just to clarify... is your common5.pac in "X:private/wii/app/rsbe/pf/system"?

and yeah, all my pics are the right size and they're PNG

[The Following]

I tried you're method and it freezes right after the strap menu... What's your hook setting on Gecko 1.9?

[xion]

do you have a hacked strap menu? also my if you meant by the set up its
language:default
force NTSC:NO
FORCE PAL60:NO
FORCE PAL50:NO
GECKO HOOK TYPE:DEFAULT
LOAD DEBUGGER:NO
SD FILE PATCHER:NO
SD CHEATS:YES
GECKO PAUSE START:NO
BUBBLES ON:NO

Idk if you meant that oh also it could be the color of the picture when i wanted to a ssp the color was i guess to big and it froze my game but when i changed it it workeed

[TruePhilosopher]

I'll explain this as simple as I can:

Open Brawlbox.

Load your common5.pac.

Click the + next to char_bust_tex.

Find the characters CSP that you want to change and export it.

Open in a picture editing program. (Example: Adobe Photoshop)

Open the picture you want to replace it with in said program and edit it to your liking.

Copy and paste your picture over the one that was from brawl.

If using Adobe erase the original layer. (Which will erase the original picture.)

If your current picture has white around it then erase it.

Save.

Go back to BrawlBox and click replace on the CSP you want to replace.

Click on the picture you just edited.

Profit!

If you're trying to change the picture of their Icon then use the same method as above, however you'll find those files in: MiscData[70] in your common5.pac.

[The Following]

I'll explain this as simple as I can:

Open Brawlbox.

Load your common5.pac.

Click the + next to char_bust_tex.

Find the characters CSP that you want to change and export it.

Open in a picture editing program. (Example: Adobe Photoshop)

Open the picture you want to replace it with in said program and edit it to your liking.

Copy and paste your picture over the one that was from brawl.

If using Adobe erase the original layer. (Which will erase the original picture.)

If your current picture has white around it then erase it.

Save.

Go back to BrawlBox and click replace on the CSP you want to replace.

Click on the picture you just edited.

Profit!

If you're trying to change the picture of their Icon then use the same method as above, however you'll find those files in: MiscData[70] in your common5.pac.

I appreciate the help, but I did all that already... I have the pictures in the correct format.. I have them in the correct place... I've done everything that every guide here has asked and everything that every help topic has said to do... and for some unknown reason, I can't get the CSP's to work... It's getting more frustrating every damn day... but that's why I asked for people who have working CSP's to post the info I wrote in the first post.. so I can see if someone else's method might work for me since the way that most guides have it set up, isn't.

[TruePhilosopher]

Listen I'm not trying to be mean here, however if you have actually followed the guides properly and still can't do it then you messed something up on your end.  Try this guide: http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?id=144811

If you're using regular Riivolution then this should have all the info you need to get it set up.  Follow it step by step.

If you try using Gecko you'll need the sc_selcharacter.pac.

Riivo ONLY needs the common5.pac for what you're trying to do.  Make sure it's named common5.pac without the en.  If you do everything correctly and have your file directory set up right then it will work.

[The Following]

Listen I'm not trying to be mean here, however if you have actually followed the guides properly and still can't do it then you messed something up on your end.  Try this guide: http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?id=144811

If you're using regular Riivolution then this should have all the info you need to get it set up.  Follow it step by step.

If you try using Gecko you'll need the sc_selcharacter.pac.

Riivo ONLY needs the common5.pac for what you're trying to do.  Make sure it's named common5.pac without the en.  If you do everything correctly and have your file directory set up right then it will work.

That one I couldn't COMPLETELY follow, because the link to Bionic's modlauncher.xml at the beginning of section 2 is down... I Googled it and only found regular mod launchers, so if you or anyone here could post it, that would be awesome since I guess I'm supposed to use his specific mod launcher.

[The Following]

And could you please explain to me what brawl +, -, ubrawl, classic, and custom 1, 2, and 3 is?... because I'm looking at the XML file to see how I form my file directories, and I don't know which one to follow... I don't use any screenpack at all, just regular old brawl.. So I would assume that I go with classic, but I'd rather be sure with some info from someone who knows what they're doing.... I know this is a "noob" question, but I'm a noob at this.

[The Following]

Anyone?

[vm19961126]

those are mods for brawl you can download those at http://smashmods.com/

and yes, brawlbox version matters, if you have the newest modset, that's what causes the freezes I guess, because, the newest modset has a bug that screws up your files.

and also, If you're a PAL user and you have a common3.pac file, make sure that the common3 is from the PAL ISO.

and yes I mean common3, thats the one for custom Item textures...

[The Following]

I'm not a PAL user... I use the regular american version... also, my BrawlBox is version 0.63d... Is that the one that screws up? and if so, what version should I download?

[HallowAngel]

I've been having the same problem, and I've started thinking it may need it's own Ocarina code. I think a custom CSS for the Character Selection Menu needs one for it to be enabled.

Could there be any other possibilities?