st al and rp stay in the private section, they almost never change location. DS_STORE files are only used in compression if I recall correctly, they don't have any purpose so no you don't need them. You only need Riivo's boot.elf. Not sure about gameconfig, but I doubt you would need it as Riivo doesn't use the File patch code. And it's fine, it took me forever to learn these things by myself, so asking questions is no problem.
And 'private' goes where on my SD card now that everything's changed? Still on the root?
Oh ok I see. Where can I get a Riivo boot.elf? Or is that only for the Channel version?
I know this is some tough stuff. God help me if I ever have to help someone like darkman (an
extreme[/i] noob who it took me days just to help him install Smash Stack, which is less confusing, and he still can't get it to work).
Also, I just got a fresh common5.pac, so I put all my MiscData stuff and char_bust_tex I exported from my selcharacter in there?