Res.,Thp, and other stuff i dont quite understand.

[Nanook52]

ok time to summerize before i ask to make sure so far im doing everything right. Please if im doing something wrong or missing something TELL ME!

to hack brawl one must:

1.install Homebrew Menu [Not done yet/plan to do the tradiational way and use brawl to install it with stage creator]

2. Put Gecko in SD:/apps (i also put it in the root of SD)

3. Insert brawl's Gci code into SD:/codes

4. Created a root of SD:/private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/fighter (also added stage,item,module and sound)

5.downloaded a ton of stuff and save them in a folder on PC

6. created a folder for every single fighter and put skins for them in there.

7. eat cookies and wait to get a copy of brawl.

now when i get the disc again, i will have to insert sd card into wii,load up brawl and go to stage creator where the installer make homebrew appear. then once complete i go to homebrew channel and find gecko. once there the magic happens?

if im correct so far then id link to actuall get on with my questions.

i noticed some ppl have custom images for their characters. by random guess i think CSI means "Character select image".  how exactly do i do that

i noticed that people have imported videos as their brawls opening as thp's. im not sure what that is but my question is can i make my import a video i have and just converted to thp somehow? or do i need that confusing brawl box that i dont understand quite yet?


rels are used to make me put stages whereever i want right?

and my final question is the items.im doing a rain check and seeing if got this right. so far all i did was created a folder called item in pf and sticked all my items in there,but some items are coming with Common 5's and 3's. what do i do with those?

[Youngnamez]

1.) The Character Select Images (CSP's) go in the sc_selcharacter.pac file. Alternatively, you can put them in common5.pac file in the System folder.
2.) You can only have imported videos if you use the riivolution app. It wont work on gecko.
3.) Yes, .rel files can replace stages and also a few brawl characters.
4.) Most of the items go in common3.pac, not the items folder.

[Azure_Shadow]

Replacing items and CSPs will be difficult if you don't know how to use Brawlbox, so look up some tutorials on that first. That, plus the exceptions that Youngnamez mentioned, are the only things you ought to know.
You can look up more information on the tutorials section, and I'd suggest you do that if you want to do anything more advanced than replace characters. Changing a video to THP format is a long, difficult process.