Hate to be a total noob, but I'm new to this.

[some_person]

Hello. I'm some_person. The disk drive recently broke on my wii, so I backed up my games and am now using wiiflow. I thought that since I have the ISO backed up now, it'd be a good time to try some brawl texture hacking.

I've looked at at least ten tutorials, and honestly, I still don't know where to begin. One major problem is that none of them seem to be for iso hacking, but instead making a swap file for GeckoOS or something. I want the edits inside of the ISO file, and I can save it as a second brawl copy to play using wiiflow.

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Something optimal would be like this:
- Being able to open up my Brawl.iso file
- Being able to get to the texture(music, stage, all those other thigns woud be cool too) file.
- Start off by downloading already done things in here(I'll make my own and share them after I figure it out).
- Swap the things from this site over the original files(that's really all you have to do, right?_
- Close brawl back into it's ISO
- Put it on wiiflow and test it.

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Any help? Any guides that'd give me a new ISO output? Any good programs?

Thanks a lot for any help.

[Miniova]

You could just download usb loader gx.  It lets you turn off ocarina before you play or turn it on before you play.  For what you want to do though... you will need a program called wii scrubber.  To use it you'll have to get a copy of the keys.bin file which I'm not allowed to provide you you.

[some_person]

Ok, I tested swapping out the Mario 2 texture. Now the game freezes(actually, quits loading, so it freezes when it needs to load something new, like the stage) whenever I choose the outfit.

Would that be a bad texture, or did I do something wrong? It was a .pac and a .pcs, and I just right click->replaced them, with the same name as the original.

Thanks for the help so far though.

[Miniova]

I'm not sure about this one but whenever you right click something in wiiscrubber and save it to the computer it always acts on whatever what highlighted before you right click.  You might have accidentally replaced the first one you replaced with the other file.  Try left clicking the outfit first and then replacing it.  Do it for the .pcs and the .pac

[some_person]

Makes sense, I'll try it quickly.

Also, now that I'm using wiiscrubber': "WiipartionbinChanger" Is for extracting a lot of files at once and then putting them back in, right? I can't figure out how to use it. And fully editing the iso with wiiscrubbers one-at-a-time-then-reload problem isn't very feasible. Could you explain how to use that too? It needs a .bin file, I have a .iso. That's as far as I've gotten figuring it out.

[Miniova]

I've never heard of wii partition changer so I wouldn't know.  You're an ISO from the USB correct?

[some_person]

Well, I'm running an ISO from a USB harddrive. I'm editing the iso from my computer and transfering it over.

On a positive note, I got the first texture hack working. I think it was just a problem with the texture file itself, the new one worked.

All I need to do now is find out how to replace the files quicker, and I'll be able to make the custom brawl game I've wanted for so long.

Any one else know how to do that?

And, thanks a lot Miniova, seriously.

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Edit: Oh, one more thing. How do I change the character portrait to match the new texture?

[Akiba Red]

Get a picture of it 1st ya jackwagon.

[some_person]

I could have figured that much out, but then what. I'm assuming it's another file to replace and probably not in any traditional format.

[Miniova]

Well... if you use usb launcher gx than you can use your codes on brawl and get the file replacement code 3.5.1 working on it.  It'll do the same thing and it's way faster.
Also  which portrait are you wishing to change?  the select screen portrait or the battle icon portrait?

[some_person]

Maybe I'll have to go with that then.

And, I'd like to change both, if possible.

Also, just wondering. What's the difference from a .pcs and .pac file?

[GentlemanPotato]

.pcs are needed for every hack, .pac is only needed for characters that transform.

[Akiba Red]

Maybe I'll have to go with that then.

And, I'd like to change both, if possible.

Also, just wondering. What's the difference from a .pcs and .pac file?

Ya need the picture in PNG format ya jackwagon.

[some_person]

Ya need the picture in PNG format ya jackwagon.

Are you trying to be helpful, or just annoying?

[Akiba Red]

Both. Luv2troll.