Smash 3 CSS help

[IFerPe01]

I was putting the smash 3 recolors on the Legacy XP mod and for the CSP's, BP and stock icons I used Costume Manager. I got most of the characters to load with their 10 skins each.
The problem comes when I tested it and the game froze (real wii), I checked the sc_selcharacter.pac file and was 3.80 MB (the limit was 3.79 I think), while the other problem is that everything I replaced was in CMPR, and to make space I thought that I could turn the CSP's that I haven't replaced yet to CMPR too... but that made it WORSE, the size kept increasing and I didn't even replaced Wolf, Snake and Sonic.
My last (and stupid) idea was reducing size by turning literally every other texture on the sc_selcharacter file to CMPR format. That somehow reduced the size, but when I tested it the whole CSS was a mess.
Someone help please.

 

[britipinojeff]

You could try using some of Ondo's techniques to reduce filesize

 

[IFerPe01]

Uhh, maybe you could give me a link or something please?

 

[britipinojeff]

https://smashboards.com/threads/shared-csp-data-near-ci8-quality-sub-cmpr-size.434310/#post-21407894

 

[IFerPe01]

I don't quite understand how that program works, it opens a CMD that gives an error and i dunno.

 

[britipinojeff]

Oh wait I just remembered, if you are using LXP as your base then you don't need to change anything in the sc_selcharacter.pac. You just need to change the pictures in the results screen files cuz LXP uses some code to redirect the pictures to there

 

[IFerPe01]

What files are those?
If those are MenSelchrFaceXXX.brres then that doesn't work, since I replaced all of those.
For example, I couldn't replace squirtle on the sc_selcharacter.pac and I replaced all of squirtle's skins in MenSelchrFace290 but they don't appear in the CSS, only in the result screen.
If the result screen files aren't those then tell me.

 

[britipinojeff]

What files are those?
If those are MenSelchrFaceXXX.brres then that doesn't work, since I replaced all of those.
For example, I couldn't replace squirtle on the sc_selcharacter.pac and I replaced all of squirtle's skins in MenSelchrFace290 but they don't appear in the CSS, only in the result screen.
If the result screen files aren't those then tell me.

Well I remember doing that to Ness specifically, but I don't play Legacy so I can't test it out rn. Anyway I looked back at your original post cuz you said that you somehow made things worse before when you changed the format to CMPR

while the other problem is that everything I replaced was in CMPR, and to make space I thought that I could turn the CSP's that I haven't replaced yet to CMPR too... but that made it WORSE, the size kept increasing and I didn't even replaced Wolf, Snake and Sonic.

This was because Legacy used the technique that Ondo used in the link I gave you, so when you changed the format the sc_selcharacter.pac wasn't saving space anymore, which is why the file size increased.

 

[IFerPe01]

This was because Legacy used the technique that Ondo used in the link I gave you, so when you changed the format the sc_selcharacter.pac wasn't saving space anymore, which is why the file size increased.

So... any solution?

 

[britipinojeff]

So... any solution?

Well the solution is still to use Ondo's technique that's why I gave it to you. Other than that I guess you could lower the size of the csps, but that makes them look ugly. Using Ondo's technique they can look good and they save space.