First of all, I'm not an idiot, so don't treat me like one when you answer this.
I say this because I've noticed a growing trend when people ask for help with Riivolution. They're either completely ignored, vaguely pointed in the direction of other sites, or talked down to like "you ought to know this already noob" and barely helped at all.
I've been faithfully downloading all of the excellent AGFanProduction Mewtwo updates, got mariokart64n's model and some textures, and took some good looking snapshots and shooped them into CSP's. The character select screen even says "Mewtwo", but the announcer does not, and he sounds like Lucario when he fights. So I decided to try using "Riivolution" in order to get the sound pack to work. I got Riivolution to work all by myself, and I got it to work pretty damn well! I even meticulously edited the file patch code out of my RSBE01.gct using HXD so that all of my other codes (alloys, unrestricted camera, etc...) would work with Riivolution. And they did! But no matter what I did, there were always some gripes I had with Riivolution:
1. It requires you to have multiple copies of the SAME files in multiple places on your SD card if you want to play a replacement mod. For instance, I play Brawl +, which means I have to get rid of my "pf" directory and have an identical "ssbb" folder on the root of my SD card just so Riivolution can read the game, and then an IDENTICAL "brawlplus" folder within an even larger "brawlmods" (also includes half of the same files) folder on the root of the SD. Being able to load up vBrawl, Brawl +, or Brawl - from the same card whenever I want on the fly is a nice feature, yes. Taking up more than half of my SD card with 3 or 4 copies of the same flipping files is not. I know that there's a networking feature (that doesn't come with any kind of instructions at all), but again, multiple gigs of my work/school/music hard drive devoted to multiple copies of the same Brawl textures is not an investment I want to make.
2. I'm stuck with an OOOOOLD version of Brawl + and the other mods. Brawl + has now gone Gold, although I haven't gotten the update because it gets rid of custom stages (they're my first babies). I don't know what version I have, but it's the one that downloads from the Homebrew Updatifier and comes with Weegee in the opening video, the unrestrained camera integrated, and other such magnificence. The version Riivolution confines you to doesn't have these things, it even has the normal Brawl title screen, which makes me believe that it's a very old version and the differences are pretty miniscule. The Riivolution people don't seem to have any intention of keeping their XML's up to date. If you use Riivolution and want to play Brawl +, you're stuck with a woefully out of date version.
3. Can't take snapshots and save them to the SD card because the "pf" folder is gone. If you don't have in game snapshots with you Vault uploads, they get reported. This is perfectly reasonable, but now that I know Riivolution keeps you from saving snapshots to your SD (maybe there are other methods of getting them to your computer?), I kind of feel for all of those people who have to use Brawlbox screens. I could keep the pf folder, but that would mean another 300 mb or so of my SD card gone to make space for files that are already on there... TWICE.
4. The Mewtwo voice brsar doesn't even work. No matter where I put it. The download says to put it in pf/sound, and to use riivolution. These are contradicting statements, since riivolution doesn't read files from the pf directory... So I put it ssbb/sound. Doesn't work. I put it in brawlmods/music. No change. I put in brawlmods/brawlplus/sound. Nada. I put it in ALL THREE! (bare in mind that the brsar file is over 100 mb and this officially fills my SD card to full capacity) Again, I arrive at the character select screen, select "Mewtwo", and am told, rather passionately by the announcer, that NAY! I have selected "Lucario" once again.
So... I said screw Riivolution, got rid of the 1.3 GB of cloned brawl files, restored the pf folder to its rightful place, and decided I'd wait till somebody figured out a different way to put sound files in Brawl. This new hexpack stuff looks promising... but oh wait. It requires Riivolution.
Look I got it to work, but there were A LOT of problems. This does not need to be something Brawl modders start relying on by any means. Unless of course, I was going about it incorrectly. If this is going to be the way we hack Brawl now, what was I doing wrong?
TL;DR: I know how to use Riivolution, I just think it sucks. Read #4 above, tell me what to fix, and I might be willing to compromise.
