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Pretty much what the title says. I've seen several uploads on youtube of brawl replays where the quality was at 720p. I already know how to upload standard replays using a capture card, but not how to get them in 720p. Does anyone know?

I think this is the right place to ask, anyway.

Dolphin emulator is the way to get HD quality.

There's two possibilities for that to happen. The first (and most common) is using the Dolphin emulator which has a 720p upscale output. They use a video recorder to get the footage from Dolphin and make a replay video out of it. Only catch to that is that you have to have a really powerful PC to get a decent framerate while recording video.

The second is that they have a HD capture card. Probably one of the more popular ones is the Hauppage HD one. The thing is, that setup's not true 720p, that's only 480p due to the Wii not having HD in the first place. Also, HD capture cards are fairly expensive compared to normal capture cards.

Hope that helps you out, and welcome to the forums.

*EDIT* Pride made a very good point too. Your video editor's going to matter a lot in the video quality.

It's not a HDMI cable for sure. 480p is as high as a Wii can go. To get anything beyond, picture must be upscaled.

Also, to run hacks on Dolphin, don't you need a virtual SD card on your PC?

You run an ISO in Dolphin, just use Wiiscrubber to inject the files into the ISO.

You run an ISO in Dolphin, just use Wiiscrubber to inject the files into the ISO.

Okay, so what I should do is get an SSBB iso, replace the texture/music files, replace the stock replays with the ones I want to record, then screencap that? (disclaimer: yeah obviously I already own SSBB)

3. Downloading and Using Brawl Hacks

Now that you have Homebrew set up and an app to load files with, you'll need files to load. Where can you find files? Right here of course! Look around the forums and BrawlVault to find hacks that you like and download them to your computer. All files must be named correctly in order for them to work. Look at the lists below for where to put the files and what to name them. This list works for both the File Patch code and Riivolution, as long as you used the File Patch XML for Riivolution. (Replace the (X)'s in the file locations with the proper SD drive location and disc region.

Characters
Characters belong in the following location:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\Fighter\(Character Name)\

Here are the names for each character:


Character Colors by File Number:

The transforming characters (Zero Suit Samus/Samus, Wario/Wario Man, Bowser/Giga Bowser, Pokemon Trainer/Squirtle/Ivysaur/Charizard) all need .pac files along with .pcs files for textures to work correctly.

Stages
Normal stages belong in the following location:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\stage\melee\

SSE stages (NOT MODEL SWAPPED STAGES, only the actual SSE stages) belong in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\stage\adventure\
You'll know if a stage is an actual SSE stage because it's file name will be a bunch of numbers. (Ex. 420101.pac)

Stage Names:

Music
Music only works with File Patch code versions over 3.1 (and Riivolution of course).
Songs belong in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\sound\strm\

A full list of songs and what to name them can be found here: [url]http://www.mediafire.com/?jgmd833x1l0bpjn.[/url]
(Not made by me, but I forgot who made it... Sorry!)

*Note* If your music sounds like static, or the song cuts off randomly and a new song starts, or the song doesn't sound like it should, first try defragmenting your SD Card. If that doesn't work, back up everything on your SD Card and then format it.

Sound Effects
Sound effects can ONLY be used with Riivolution. The most stable File Patch Code (3.5.1) DOES NOT support sound effects.
The file "smashbros_sound.brsar" is the file used for sound effects in game, such as character/announcer voices. This file is often edited for completely new characters. It belongs in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\sound\

Menus
Most hacks for the menus are in the mu_menumain.pac, sc_selcharacter.pac, and sc_selmap.pac files.

The mu_menumain.pac file belongs in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pfmenu2\ (Not a typo. Create a new folder in your RSBE folder called "pfmenu2" for the mu_menumain.pac.)

The other files above belong in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\menu2\


System Files
The system files that are most commonly edited are common3.pac and common5.pac

All of the common_.pac files belong in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\system\

Strap Loaders
This is the screen that appears before the opening movie which reminds you to wear the wrist strap/don’t hit people. It’s very popular to edit. It belongs in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\menu\strap\

Rel Files
These files allow you to replace a stage in Brawl with a stage that uses a different Brawl stage as a base. For example, if somebody created a stage based off of Final Destination, you could use a rel file to load it over Hanenbow instead. They belong in:
(X):\private\wii\app\RSB(X)\pf\module\
For help in naming or creating rel files, visit this page: [url]http://ssbbcustom.wikia.com/wiki/Module_files.[/url]

The highest the Wii can run at isnt 480p, its actually 720p, the only thing is...very few developers actually use that graphic power for the Wii

/facepalm

Yeah, okay. Maybe not that clueless. Found it. God that was lame.

edit: I have all my textures/music replaced, but I don't know what the directory for replays is. On the SD card it's "rp" but I can't find the corresponding directory on the ISO.

halp?

Wait. HD on Wii is actually possible? What titles actually use it?

Sorry for incompetence.