The Brawl Expansion Project

[UltIMa647]

And where does one get Phantom's special file?

[HaloFanODST]

And where does one get Phantom's special file?

First page, CSS Expansion download.

[UltIMa647]

While tring to open CSS Organizer and use the scselcharacter in the expansion, it said this
ERROR: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of collection.
Parameter Name:Index
How do I fix this?

[secretchaos1]

So now that we've got the 14 costume slots working there's been another glaring issue I've tried tinkering with before but had no luck at solving.

With so many characters and costumes it's impossible to have enough stock icons to accommodate single player modes (It's not even a size issue, you literally cannot store that many files in the archive at one time without it crashing). I'm using 2x2 blank images to cut back space and make as many slots compatible as I can but I've hit the limit long ago, and naming all of the files for each individual outfit was quite a chore.

So instead of adding in new ones to fix all the new costumes I think I'm going to try and mess with it and get it to load either a single image for every stock, or none at all. I've tried removing various models associated with it in the sc_selcharacter.pac file but that only seems to cause crashing whenever they would be loaded.

Does anyone have any sort of idea as to where and how I might look into this? Even a best guess is fine, I'm just going to be doing trial and error to see if I can't get something to work.

Edit:
Well I've reached a little snag in the 14 costumes.
Seems like Kirby crashes the game with costumes 11 and Spy when swallowing any character that has multiple kirby files (DK, Falco, Olimar, Snake, etc). Changing them to single in BrawlEx doesn't stop the crash from happening either.
The Dark costume won't swallow at all, and only spits out the enemy. Not sure if its in his psa that causes that or something else.

Edit 2:
Still going through the costume setup.
Game and Watch can't use the "Dark" slot. BrawlEx tries loading another glitchy clone directory.
"(SD): Open failed (/private/wii/app/RSBE/pf/fighter/gamewatch/FitGameWatchkirby/FitKirbyBAYONETTA.packirby/FitKirbyISAAC.pac)"

Cool thing to note though, he does load the "Spy" file instead of another colour palette. So you can have a second model of Game and Watch now.

I'm kind of curious about checking to see whether or not the "Fake" file works for other characters or not. It didn't load properly for Diddy, but considering the "Dark" file doesn't load for game and watch perhaps the Fake costume still works for other characters.
Never mind, I checked with Mario and it tried loading the exact same file as Diddy, going to assume it's the same all around.
Game and watch however can load colour slot 13 however it only loads another Game and Watch palette from FitGamewatch00.pcs.

[magicalhats4]

The link for the clone tool is down and i can't find it anywhere

[kingshadow75]

is it possible to have independent pokemon for brawlex without the pokemon engine code

If people already know then i am late but if people don't know i am happy to share how

[Tyshy]

is it possible to have independent pokemon for brawlex without the pokemon engine code

If people already know then i am late but if people don't know i am happy to share how

I think it should work if you add them separately by editing the CSSRoster.dat

[Steam/SSBB Guy]

It works the same way as Solo Sheik and ZSS, you need to add their configs into the brawlex folder, and edit the CSSRoster.dat file to include them.

[magicalhats4]

Can someone send me the clone tool its been taken down everywhere :(

[UltIMa647]

Can someone send me the clone tool its been taken down everywhere :(

Look on the last few pages. I posted a new link someone sent me.

[secretchaos1]

Well after a lot of trial and error I finally found out how to redirect all the stock icons to load up a single file.
A bit busy at the moment, but I'll put up the necessary files and explain how to do it later. This should free up a bit of sc_selcharacter.pac file space for us, as well as make single player modes compatible with every alt costume and fighter!

[Don Jon Bravo]

Well after a lot of trial and error I finally found out how to redirect all the stock icons to load up a single file.
A bit busy at the moment, but I'll put up the necessary files and explain how to do it later. This should free up a bit of sc_selcharacter.pac file space for us, as well as make single player modes compatible with every alt costume and fighter!

original scselcharacter is 3.79mb
how much does it reduce?
and does it include removing all characters battle portraits, as in "normal characters"?

[secretchaos1]

original scselcharacter is 3.79mb
how much does it reduce?
and does it include removing all characters battle portraits, as in "normal characters"?

Battle portraits should remain unaffected, this is just for the stock icons in MiscData[90].
The archive had a limit with how many unique icons could exist in the file and because of that I wasn't able to have a stock icon loaded for every costume (The game would crash if it was unable to find a stock icon).

What I managed to do was edit the module in common3.pac that controls how stock icons load, and change it so that it only loads "InfStc" instead of "InfStc.XXX" depending on the costume and character loaded.

So basically you don't need to have a ton of stock icons to make additional costumes and fighters compatible with 1p modes, and you can remove all of the original ones too since they're only really used on that menu. I think they're maybe on the stage select menu as well, though there might be a second set of those in sc_selmap, I've never had any crashes or problems there before so I never checked.

I deleted the miscdata[90] from the original sc_selcharacter.pac and it freed up about 100kb, so it should probably be somewhere close to that much extra space you'll get if you haven't modified your stock icons. If you've put in a bunch of new ones you might save more, or less if you're like me and replaced them with placeholders (I saved about 40 - 50 kb I think). I think the main attraction here is that costumes without stock icons no longer crash on certain menus.

Anyway, here's the modified common3.pac: https://www.mediafire.com/?0mfg5475t12q2pc

It should work with the newest version of BrawlEx, just make sure you have a single stock icon named "InfStc" in your MiscData[90] archive, in your sc_selcharacter.pac file. You can have more icons in there but it won't read them, so there's no point.

[Don Jon Bravo]

Well i think removing battle portraits can decrease the siZe in the selcharacter pac file to provide better css icons and csps
Because no offence
But some of them included in packs, including yours, look really bad because how compressed they are

[secretchaos1]

Oh trust me I know, I have them cut down to half of their original res at this point and I really wish I didn't have to.
Unfortunately battle pics aren't stored in the sc_selcharacter.pac at all, they're individual files in the pf/info/portrite folder. So removing them won't do much good at all. The only real solution to csps would be that alternate system Phantomwings was working on to load them from individual files like how result pics are loaded. Unfortunately in its current state it takes much too long to load every time you highlight a character. I did a demo video before showing what it would be like with 2 players trying to select a character (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uczvjrKrKR8) , and it's pretty easy to imagine the impact of more.

I think if that ever got perfected though, that would likely be the only way to get high quality csps. I still have all of the original res versions of my csps just in case it ever comes to be.