Another N00B - what a joke!

[OmegaPyron]

Hello everyone,

I'm here to ask you all to help a complete N00B out - me.
I'm probably going to have a lot of problems trying to get this to work on my wii again, especially if there are any dead links.

Ok, so I did find the N00B's complete guide (26 grueling pages which I hope to not have to read and comprehend.)
I also read the readme to the guide (which seems might help me download the stuff correctly in the future)
The readmeclaims the (a ) noobguide is old.
Someone did help me awhile back, but he has since been distant. So, I would like to start by mentioning I do have Hombrew (which has NeoGamma, Riivolution, cIOSX rev21 Installer) and that I also have a shortcut to Riivolution on the Wii's homepage.

I also have 2 SD cards - a 1 gb and 8 gb.

Inside the SD cards are a lot of files...which have become unorganized because of noobish tinkering, sadly.
What happened was when I was 'confident' in swaping music themes I downloaded(yes..) I moved on to stages, And I swapped some with weird names(I got confused with the femblem and yoshiisland stages)
and SOMEHOW all of the data didn't read or play on the wii. So, I tried adding the originals back as well as deleting the entire package and replacing it with a backup. I even tried the original links the guy gave me (deleted) and so NOTHING worked.

Alright, So I'm not sure if I should delete everything and start fresh, or tell everyone the contents of the folder and work from there.

One thing I do know, is that my system is 4.3u and that the link for bootmii in the guide for noobs has been deleted or isn't working. Its one of the first few steps. Maybe I already have it (it seems familiar)

Did anyone want me to post the files of my SD card? Should I skip any steps / pages?

Maybe I should google bootmii and work from there (though I'm not sure if its the same.

I'm using mediafire (it claims the trials over, but I can still download characters, etc)

[Albafika]

First things first, Brawl hacks won't work on a SD bigger than 2 GBs, so leave your 8 GB SD out of this.

And, you need Homebrew Channel to boot hacks up, google it and see how you get it to work, and make sure you do what you're told on the guides.

EDIT: To avoid doubts:

http://hbc.hackmii.com/

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

[BlackJax96]

First things first, Brawl hacks won't work on a SD bigger than 2 GBs, so leave your 8 GB SD out of this.

And, you need Homebrew Channel to boot hacks up, google it and see how you get it to work, and make sure you do what you're told on the guides.

EDIT: To avoid doubts:

http://hbc.hackmii.com/

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

I use a 4gb SD with Riivo... it's the file patch code that can't handle larger SD cards.

[Albafika]

I use a 4gb SD with Riivo... it's the file patch code that can't handle larger SD cards.

Yeah, I forgot to point out this limitation's only with Gecko. lol

[GabbaGhoul]

Yah-
I use a 16gb flash drive and riivolution
I had been used to the gecko but when I broke my sd card and bought a new one
I couldn't get gecko to work with it, although it was the right file type and size.
I had assumed it was just the new gen sd cards worn't working with it.

So when, and if all else fails, try riivo.
There are several tutorials here on the site - just not sure where.

[OmegaPyron]

You have all been a great help. A 1 GB sd card will work fine. One of the main reasons the game wasn't holding its space, was because I greatly underestimated music's large file size! I decided to have only 1 song/ stage and it has been great.

Recently I've been trying many new character slots, and 1 came with a pac3 file for my system file. When I booted up brawl, the game couldn't get past the safety screen, and because I couldn't figure out what was interrupting its progress I checked this site and sure enough, it told me specifically that it was that pac file.

Thank you everyone,

OmegaPyron