yah but i have one and i have its just when i want custom css i dont know what to replace

what custom CSS are you trying to install?

because a common5.pac is an archive full of a [censored]load of textures for different things in the game. People upload just the individual pictures so that people can install them while using whatever custom textures they want.

Just use this clean common5.pac and install what you want into it
http://www.mediafire.com/?mdtddxcmaly

Strange, I haven't had a single problem. did you try the new codes I added? Those are the ones I use so there might be something different between the two

Yeah, I added them.

You know, I'm just considering deleting all my mods and starting from scratch, I've just had no success at all as of recent.

Hmm, using your XML, the only mods I had that worked were my music replacements. Everything else custom didn't load, including my codes.

That XML sounds like a good idea. A lot of the XMLs I've tried using here haven't worked very well.

This has been happening to me too ever since I reinstalled Riivolution. Got my codes set up right but it's still jumbled up.

You've got your codes right, don't worry about that.

That seems like the most likely thing, but I DID use a clean bsrar when following Jaklub's steps, and the problem still occurs.

Edit: I tried reinstalling Riivolution using the guides and XMLs posted in the tutorials section, and now I just get a black screen when I try to launch brawl with riivolution. THE PROBLEMS JUST KEEP PILING UP

Double Edit: Got it to launch by changing some of riivolution's settings. I get the strap menu, but after the loading screen once the opening music begins to play (but before you see the opening video), the game freezes. AAAARRGH

scratch all that I fixed it. So, I guess the problem is just the bsrar. Doesn't make sense since I've been using clean ones..

Sorry to double post, but I did some extra testing. Sephiroth seems to work just fine with his sound pack installed (though I'm not really hearing any new sounds. Well, voices that is). Seems to be that the problem is isolated with Cloud and Volnutt.

Yes, I have tested them beforehand and they have worked just fine.

Also, prior to these problems occuring I accidentally ejected my brawl disc while on the character select screen without turning the game off (this is using Riivolution). My common5.pac was corrupted from this, but I fixed it. Could any other of my brawl mod files have been corrupted from this?

Alright, I followed your guide step by step. Here are the results:

-Announcer calls are working
-Goku's soundpack works, but playing as either Cloud, Sephiroth, or Volnutt causes the game to freeze once I try to attach (playing a sound).

hmm really weird you could always try installing sound effect the old way

You mean the traditional Hex Editor method?
Do sound mods these days work with that method still? I got the impression they only worked with Sawndz.

No idea. I'm pretty sure I installed it correctly, I pasted the offset in each filename into the offset beginning box in sawndz, clicked insert file, selected the hex file, and it supposedly installed without a hitch.

Riivolution. I also have my XML set to read my files from the standard brawl folder (inside the private folder on SD root). In fact, a lot of these sounds were working just fine earlier before I tried using the Volnutt soundpack. After I messed up on that (announcer calls were mixed up, overlapping on other ones, volnutt's sounds were high pitched and squeaky), I downloaded a clean bsrar and tried to install them all again. This time none of them worked.

I've been struggling to learn how to install sound mods with Sawndz, and it has not been a fun experience.

I'll insert the hex packets correctly, with Sawndz telling me they were correctly inserted into my bsrar. When I get into game, none of the announcer sounds I added work (just the regular brawl announcer), and when I start a match my game freezes. The mods I've been trying to use were all downloaded from brawlvault:
-Cloud announcer for Ike
-Sephiroth announcer for Marth
-Cloud soundpack for Ike
-Sephiroth soundpack for Marth
-Goku sound pack (the newest one that is just a .sawndz file, this I was able to install just fine)
-Volnutt sound pack over ROB (this one just never works)
-Volnutt announcer (female announcer that came with the volnutt pack)

What am I doing wrong to cause these crashes? I correctly put the hex number thing into the offset box and inserted, yet all this trouble is being brought onto me. What can I do?

How does the sound effects work?
Oh, no, Riivolution only!
No! I got Gecko!
(Otacon: We got Gekko!)

I guess you can't fix the item glitch.

Riivolution isn't too hard to use if you find the right XMLs to use with it. I have one that gets rid of the crappy "brawlmods" file locations and just uses the normal "private" folder.