Need some help getting things set up

[Aafyre]

I've recently decided to do a massive update on what's on my SD card, and I have a few questions.

Ideally, what I'd like to have is Brawl EX with all the slots, the most recent Stage Expansion (v3, I believe), and cBliss. I have a few questions regarding these:

1) I know people say cBliss isn't possible with EX, but then they say EX can give you the extra outfits anyways. However, all the "hack packs" I've tried so far only have the basic number of outfits. Has anyone successfully "combined" the two yet, or is it something that's just possible in theory for now?

2) Another thing about these packs, some of them say you need to exit the CSS after each match, while others don't require this. Does anyone know why that is?

3) All of the custom characters in the EX hack packs I've tried either have the wrong sfx or none at all. Is this unavoidable when using EX, or is there a way to give everyone their own sfx?

4) If I were to start with one of these hack packs, how complicated would it be for me to replace some of the extra characters with others that don't necessarily use the same base character? For instance, if I wanted to replace Gotenks with Ridley.

5) I tried Project M and like some of the changes, but not all. Is it possible to use some of their movesets in basic Brawl as I would any PSA, or would they not work properly (do they only work the way they do because of lots of codes)?

6) When I saw that PM could load SD cards > 2GB I went out and bought an 8GB one. However, all the custom music I put on it messes up even after reformatting. Has anyone else gotten custom songs to play correctly on larger SD cards, or is the PM loader still not perfect yet?

If anyone could provide answers for any of these questions, that would be a big help. I feel like I can't make any progress until I get this all sorted out. Thanks!

[Lillith]

1~ It's possible using only BrawlEx, cBliss isn't necessary in this situation at all.

2~ GFX conflicting between clones and their original characters (Say Link and Young Link)

3~ It's possible by replacing boss SFX, but that's it currently, it's tedious and time consuming though...

4~ Haven't done this, but I think you can just replace the fighter config of the person you're replacing with the one you want to replace with...

5~ Some movesets work well, like Bowser or Ike, but some won't work properly, like Samus or Mewtwo.

6~ No comment, haven't messed with music...

[Makarew]

For 6, are you the thing that adds more music files? If so, the new ones normally get messed up in game. Also, you need to use the SDHC extension for cards larger than two gigs.

[Aafyre]

1) Okay, so then does anybody know of an existing pack that includes EX with all the extra outfits for basic characters? If I were to make changes to one that doesn't, how might I do that?

2) So it's caused by certain characters then, eh? Is there any way to know beforehand which characters cause this problem? I'm guessing any of the alternate version characters (Young Link, various Ganongdorf PSAs, etc) as their own slots would be problematic.

3) So basically, any characters in the extra slots will always be lacking their sfx? That's too bad, but good to know.

5) Ouch, those were the two main ones I was interested in

6) I think the pack that I tried out only had codes to redirect songs from SSE and various menus into the custom stages, but none to actually add new song entirely, though I could be wrong. What is this SDHC extension? I was just launching the game through the PM launcher. Everything worked fine off my 8 GB card other than the music.

Thanks for the responses so far!

[Lillith]

1~ I think ShinF's has done this, I don't know...

2~ It really just depends if the person doing the pack has fixed up character GFX, like they did with Roy in Project M so he doesn't conflict with Marth.

3~ Oh! You can also make two or more share a certain voice bank.

5~ KJP made a fixed Mewtwo here~ http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=203252 and I made a mashup of Samus' fire/ice beams if you're interested in that (Unreleased thus far, so...)

[Aafyre]

I did some more toying around and I got my big SD card to work with the music. I did see that Mewtwo on the vault but I hadn't gotten around to trying it yet. Glad to know that it works

As for Samus, I mainly wanted PM's for the crawling, but the beams are a nice touch too.

I was playing around with more of the custom slots, and it seemed like most of them had okay enough sfx. Just a couple of them (Lloyd, mainly) kept spamming obnoxious Wolf quotes 

So I think the main thing I must do now is seek out this ShinF fellow then. I'm surprised extra slots in EX isn't more widespread.

Thanks for the responses, again

[Lillith]

I'll be re-adding the morph ball crawl too at some point, I started from scratch so I could get it to work properly for this...
Alternatively, if all you want is the crawl I could just add it to whichever Samus moveset you want it on~

[Aafyre]

Thanks, but I don't mind waiting for you to release your moveset once it's finished. It's relieving to know that someone is at least working on a Samus moveset that incorporates crawling, outside of PM.

[Lillith]

Well, now I have an excuse to finish it, so that might be later today or tomorrow.
Post Merge: May 17, 2014, 01:05:46 AMFinished it off, enjoy the morph ball~ http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=203818