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I've had this SD card for about three years and it's been fine up until at least sometime after November 13th 2010 because that's when I installed Smash Stack and started hacking for the first time.

I use a 2GB SanDisk SD card made for Nintendo and a SanDisk MobileMate SD+ SD card reader since my computer is ancient and has no SD card slots so I have to use USB ports.

The stupid thing keeps sporadically write-protecting itself without me even touching the lock switch. I tried flicking the switch up before inserting it into my SD card reader and then down (locked) before inserting, but it made no difference where the switch was. I'll be modifying files or saving files to my SD card and it'll bring up an error that says the disk is write-protected and says I need to remove the write protection. Usually I can fix this by safely removing the hardware, then unplug it and replug it back into the USB and the write protection gets removed. However this time I've tried inserting the SD card reader about five different times and it's not changing!  :oshi:

So I really need some help hear or I will never be able to add anymore hacks to my game anymore until I can get it to stop locking all the damn time.

New SD card?

If an SD breaks, it breaks. Not much you can do about it.

Well I wouldn't say it broke, unless you didn't mean it broke physically and just meant it crapped out.

I meant that if the SD just dies, you really can't fix it.

The what...? Anyway, I just inspected my SD card closely and nothing is broken, damaged, or anything.



Oh well we don't know for sure yet if it's totally dead.

I think he was talking about an internal thing in the sd....  only way you could've checked to see if that was messed up was to open the sd card up and look at it....
You're probly gonna have to buy a new sd card

I had this problem once.  Is your SD card lockable?  If so flick the little thing that toggles the locking. 

most SD cards have a lock switch on the side, usually if its flicked down, its locked and can't be used, flick the switch up to unlock it. if thats not the problem, then its the SD card.

The File Patch Code can sometimes do strange things to an SD card, on some instances, it can corrupt the SD's Memory loader, preventing users from accessing data (don't worry gents, this is rare)

Yeah I had an issue on my mac where a corrupt file appears in my trash when I plug in my sd and prevents me from deleting anything from the Fighter folder

Yeah but if you read my OP I said I already tried flicking the switch up before inserting it and down before inserting it.



Like I just said, I already tried having the SD card locked before inserting and unlocked, so I guess it's something internally that's screwed up.

Oh really? Well, maybe the File Patch Code is the culprit? It's rare, but it can still happen. I could be the one unlucky one that got his SD card fried from that code.

That may actually be it, everyone has said it could happen but no one has really seen it happen.

In theory, it's possible.

Here are two pictures of my SD card -- one of each side.

(The quality is bad; sorry. My camcorder fails at taking pictures because it's a cheap $150 one.)


Also, I just tried editing my camcorder's 4GB SanDisk SDHC card using the SD card reader and it allows me to modify its files while my 2GB SanDisk SD card remains write-protected still won't allow me to.

I looked it up but I don't really understand what it will allow me to do.

Can you just link me to the latest version's download and I'll install it and see what I can do.

I was just there before I asked you to link me, but there are a ton of downloads on there and I have no idea what I'm looking for. Can you just fine the one on that site and link me to it?

You can use SDHC cards with Riivolution, i think. Can you still copy the files on your ruined SD card to your comp? Wouldn't want to lose anything. :/

Well I use Smash Stack. Also, yeah I already did that. I also have a back-up on my 16GB flash drive, but it's not really that recent.




Uhh... .wad? Channel? Is this is something you put on your Wii? I'm not too fond of putting third party stuff like that onto my Wii.

I guess I'll just have to buy a new one :\

Yes but that's on my SD card and not on my actual console. Funny too how my SD card started acting weird after I put that stuff onto it. Same could happen to my Wii but that's why I chose Smash Stack because it's better my SD card takes the bullet than my actual Wii, and it did just that as you read in this topic. This is exactly why I don't trust hacking.

^Riivo can be loaded with smashstack y'know.

Oh really? So it doesn't have to be an actual channel? Explain.

Riivoluton is  an app that can be loaded from Homebrew/Smashstack....

^Yeah, it's like Gecko, all you need is the boot.elf and such...... But after you launch it through SS you can install it's channel. You don't have to install it though.

Oh well never mind then. Still involves installing a channel on my console which I don't want to do.

He edited his post after I posted that so don't yell at me because he edited that after my post so I didn't know -_-

Also, in that post he said this: "But after you launch it through SS you can install it's channel." then he says "You don't have to install it though." -- that's contradicting what I have bolded in the first sentence.




Just to be clear, you load up Smash Stack through Stage Builder like usual, but instead of Gecko I'll get Riivo? Can I remove all my Gecko stuff on my root then? And this won't put a new channel on my console?

Yup, you can remove it all and it won't install a channel unless you want it. . And I was tryin' to say that the channel was optional, but i failed there, I guess.
And HERE (http://rvlution.net/wiki/Riivolution).

Where's the instructions on how to run it from Smash Stack?

Same reason I explained here (http://forums.kc-mm.com/index.php?topic=19033.msg340085#msg340085).

^You just put the boot.elf file in the root of your SD same as gecko, then launch it, you don't really need any instructions.

Oh well I already have a boot.elf file, but it's Gecko's. I just replace that with Riivo's boot.elf, and remove my gameconfig.dat/txt, and stuff?

^Yeah. I'm not sure about gameconfig, I just left it there, not sure if you really need it. Oh, and Riivo has some weird XML stuff, I suggest you read up on it if you wanna use it. Check here. (http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=269428&highlight=Riivolution)

Reading the guide, I see no 'private > wii > app > RSBE > pf' directories anymore, so do I just take every single folder out of 'pf' and place it in 'brawlmods'?

Also, where does the XML go? Do I copy and paste it into a .txt?

heres what i did:

copy all files from sd, and paste on desktop

buy a new sd

cut the files and paste them back in, if its locked its locked. :/

Yeah, just follow the placing guide, as some things are still slightly different.
You take the .xml and put in a folder in the root of your SD called riivolution. Just put it in there, doesn't matter what you name it. Keep it an .xml though.

So once I get this I no longer have the sc_selcharacter/map.pac file size limits (3.79 MB and 1.14 MB) before freeze? And I still can't use custom stages, right?

Ok so I'll make a folder called 'riivolution' on my SD card root, then I...how do I make an .xml file?

Just download BionicSonic's XML. I can upload it if necessary.  And no, custom stages aren't available unless you install the channel.
And I'm not sure about filesize limits, I've never bothered to check. Just know that you'll need to put Sc_Selchar/map.pac into a common5.pac or else Riivolution won't load it.

Ok I thought as much. Yeah it'd be cool if you could upload it for me. It'd be easier.

I see. So I'll just have to export my char_bust_tex_Lz77, MiscData[30] and MiscData[70] from sc_selcharacter and my stuff from selmap.pac, and then place them all into a fresh common5.pac?

Will I be able to play without an internet connection? Because of that XML stuff that's why I'm asking.

^Yeah, that'll do. And Here ya go. (http://www.mediafire.com/?2c2sonh6tpmx25s)
And the internet XML's are only for when you want to try something out, like if you wanted to play Brawl- without donwloaded the whole thing you could just "Stream" it to your wii. You could also set one up that connects to your computer, and when you update your files they're updated in-game as well.

Oh...then what do I need this XML for? Or is it not mandatory to have it?

Anyway, so that's the main XML all Riivo users use? How do you make one yourself, or is that only for developers to know?

Once I get a new SD card I'll try all this stuff out.

^You don't need an internet XML, the only one I ever used was the smashmods one. The one I linked you is the standard Brawl one though, yeah.

I saw another XML thing though on that Smash Boards topic you linked me to -- what's that for?

So I have to have this XML even if it's a non-internet one?

Those are alternate XML's. While they follow the format of the file patch code, they lack support for some files. Plus Bionic's XML is more versatile. You never need an internet XML unless you want to use one.

And this isn't an internet XML you gave me? How does it work then?

I'm not entirely sure, as I've never tried it myself, but check this out: http://rvlution.net/wiki/RiiFS
It'll probably confuse you though. :/

I wasn't yelling, I was making it clearer.
Also, it's not contradicting. Just because you can install it doesn't mean you have to.

I'm not entirely familiar with Riivo, but aren't XML's for defining the file directories and files to patch?

^Yeah. You can edit them to your liking as well.

So I'm setting up my files by reading the guide on Smash Boards. I'll post what I have so far to make sure I'm right because this stuff is very confusing as I'm used to Smash Stack's directories.

Please someone thoroughly inspect this and make sure I had the right idea because I do not want to go through being confused as hell and posting a million topics on this forum like a noob just like I did in the past.


I have 'brawlmods' on my root as well as 'riivolution' which contains "modlauncher.xml".

-'brawlmods' contains:

--'brawlminus' which contains RSBE01.gct and RSBE01.txt.

--'textures' which contains:

---'fighter' which will contain all my character folders and all the textures/PSAs within them.

---'info' which will contain 'portrite' which will contain my BSPs.

---'item' which will contain 'common3.pac'.

---'menu' which will contain 'common' which will contain 'char_bust_tex' which will contain all my results screen portraits.

---'menu2' which will contain "sc_selcharacter.pac", "sc_selmap.pac", "sc_title.pac" and "mu_menumain.pac".

---'music' which will contain 'strm' which will contain all my .brstm files.

---'stages' which will contain my stage hacks and their respective .rel files.

^Correct for the most part. Remember that Sc_Selchar freezes with Riivo, so you need to use common5. I put that in Brawlmods/Textures/System.

"For the most part"? What is that supposed to mean?

Oh crap, I forgot about the common5 thing lol thanks for reminding me. And oh ok. I was wondering why Smash Boards guide left out the system's folder in that guide? They mentioned everything else but not brawlmods/textures/system.

Also, where do you put 'st', 'al' and 'rp'? Do I need all those .DS_Store.DS STORE files? Do I need the boot.elf from Gecko as well as the gameconfig stuff?

^I meant that everything was correct 'cept for the common5 thing. And your welcome.

Where do you put 'st', 'al' and 'rp'? Do I need all those .DS_Store.DS STORE files? Do I need the boot.elf from Gecko as well as the gameconfig stuff?

Sorry for asking so many questions on this thread but we all have to learn somewhere, right?

st al and rp stay in the private section, they almost never change location. DS_STORE files are only used in compression if I recall correctly, they don't have any purpose so no you don't need them. You only need Riivo's boot.elf. Not sure about gameconfig, but I doubt you would need it as Riivo doesn't use the File patch code. And it's fine, it took me forever to learn these things by myself, so asking questions is no problem.

And 'private' goes where on my SD card now that everything's changed? Still on the root?

Oh ok I see. Where can I get a Riivo boot.elf? Or is that only for the Channel version?

I know this is some tough stuff. God help me if I ever have to help someone like darkman (an extreme[/i] noob who it took me days just to help him install Smash Stack, which is less confusing, and he still can't get it to work).

Also, I just got a fresh common5.pac, so I put all my MiscData stuff and char_bust_tex I exported from my selcharacter in there?

Private stays, it needs to be there for your snapshots etc. Riivo's boot.elf should be in the link I gave you, it's in the same folder as the rest of the stuff.
And also, I feel your pain, man. :P

Yeah I know but where on my SD card does it go? The root?

The only thing I got from your download was the XML and nothing else.

I linked to it a while back, you must have missed it. It's at the top of the page in the link.

EDIT: crap, i forgot, yeah it goes in the root.