Easy Dolphin SD card maker and Winimage will cover everything you need for getting files onto the virtual SD card. Just place your files exactly as you would on a real SD card.

You already found the Brawlex thread, which sounds like it best matches what you want to do with Brawl. The best way to figure Brawlex out is lots of trial and error with an already functional pack. Things will start making sense... eventually. I believe you can just drag the right contents of Pikezer's pack into your virtual SD card and you'll be ready to go, if you did it right the codes and private folder should be in the root of your virtual SD card.

Very well, then. I will see what I can do to get Pikezer's to work. I'll get that working, then start trying to modify that pack, and see what I can learn from it. You both have been a great help, and I'm sure I'll be reaching out to you again shortly. Thank you.

What are you using? Riivolution or Gecko?

I'm using Gecko and Dolphin. I know nothing about Riivolution.

Okay, awesome. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to disregard your information, only to say "well, what about this one?" What I'm trying to do is turn my SSBB into my own custom roster of awesomeness. Mario vs Spiderman vs Rayman vs Dixie Kong. That kind of stuff. I don't want to replace the existing characters, I want new ones. Like in Nebulons pack. I know it'll be a LONG process, but I don't even know where to begin to learn how to do all of this stuff.

I think, between you and KingJigglypuff, I've gotten a fairly good idea of how to use Gecko to run custom codes through mounting an sd card that has those codes loaded onto it. Thank you for that, it has been an incredible help. Default ISO, codemanager, etc. I just don't know how to get any of the stuff to put on the card. Do i have to make it myself? How do I learn that? What about packs? I have Pikezer's 4.4.1 pack, but I haven't the foggiest idea what to do with it. There's like 7 folders, not 3. I tried finding a tutorial on that, but only got one for Wii/HBC.

This is what I mean. I'm 100% new at this, but I want to learn

Sounds like your config files arent set up correctly. that also happens when you mess up the animpat files when adding custom cosmetics

Ok, well I havent touched anything with custom cosmetics yet, so I know it can't be that. I'm still at the point where I'm trying to clone Lucas so I can transform his extra slot into another character. I want to add Spider-man, like as shown in some of the packs. How could I mess up the config files. From what I understand, all I do is copy and paste the 4 from the BrawlEX ConfigTemplate, and put them in the SD card in BrawlEX, under their 4 respective folders. (after modifying the fighter one the show EX/3F or whatever name/slot I'm using). Hoping for your insight, as I'm brand new at this. I know it'll be a process, but I want to be able to play SSBB with a ton of new characters. I tried a few of the packs, and the only one I could get to work was Project M which I disliked heavily.

Ok, that makes sense. So gecko basically is my "HBC." So, with this tutorial: http://forums.kc-mm.com/index.php?topic=12169.0  I can go through and follow the tutorial exactly the same way, except I can ignore the stuff about HBC, because gecko and dolphin will take care of that when I run the boot.elf in my gecko folder, right? Assuming I follow KingJigglypuff's tutorial correctly, of course.

That seems rather logical. Much like mounting an iso on a virtual drive, we're replacing an sd card with a virtual one. Easy enouo+gh.

So, would I be correct in saying that if I were to open a tutorial that was intended for the HBC on an actual Wii, I can follow that tutorial exactly, except instead of mounting it on a real SD card in the HBC, I would mount it virtually and run it via boot.elf? I use the boot.elf that is inside of the Gecko1931 folder, correct?

I've been doing research on this for a small amount of time, and I think this seems like something I could do. I'm just not sure what step one is. I actually downloaded a pretty awesome pack with a ton of characters, and I don't even know how to play it.

Hi there! I'm completely new to SSBB hacking, but I am infinitely curious and would like to learn how to do it. I understand that this is a time-conisuming process, and I'm not asking anybody to devote hours to me and hold my hand. All I am asking for is a point in the right direction.

You see, all of the tutorials I have found are for the Wii. There dont seem to be any tutorials that start from the ground up for complete noobs that involve dolphin. Before the forum police come in, yes, I own a Wii and a copy of SSBB. Problem is that my wife plays the wii all the time, and hates SSBB, so I use dolphin to get my fix.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Could somebody please help me. I followed the tutorial 3 times, starting over each time. My Icons on the character select screen show up as Random and freeze when it is selected. As stated in the post, I checked to make sure my ft_fighter.pac and common2.pac are both in the SD card, which they are. It's also not taking the extra 10 seconds it should be to load. What am I missing?