Editing the Character Selection Portrait

[Giga_Bowser129]

Hey, I'm new to texture hacking on Super Smash Bros. Brawl. How do you edit the Character Selection Portrait of all the characters? I've been trying to replace Meta Knight's blue outfit image with an image of Galacta Knight but it didn't work, can someone explain to me how to do all this?

 

[darksamus77]

They're all in common5.pac. What you have to do is open it up in BrawlBox, go to sc_selecchar, then keep looking til you find MK's. Right-click, replace wih the picture you want. MAKE SURE it says True for Has Palette, or it won't work in-game.

 

[marter]

Open up common5.pac in BrawlBox. Metaknight's Blue Costume is here:

common5_en -> sc_selcharacter_en -> char_bust_tex_lz77 -> MiscData[21] -> Textures(NW4R) -> MenSelchrFaceB.215

Right Click on that, and select replace. Pick the image that you want. File -> Save and you are done. There is a chance that the file will be too large after being replaced, so if it freezes brawl, go back to common5.pac, and go to here:

common5_en -> sc_selmap_en -> MiscData[70], and replace all the phrases you think you'll never see with a "?". That'll lower the size.

 

[darksamus77]

Open up common5.pac in BrawlBox. Metaknight's Blue Costume is here:

common5_en -> sc_selcharacter_en -> char_bust_tex_lz77 -> MiscData[21] -> Textures(NW4R) -> MenSelchrFaceB.215

Right Click on that, and select replace. Pick the image that you want. File -> Save and you are done. There is a chance that the file will be too large after being replaced, so if it freezes brawl, go back to common5.pac, and go to here:

common5_en -> sc_selmap_en -> MiscData[70], and replace all the phrases you think you'll never see with a "?". That'll lower the size.

Eh, I was close. I haven't edited CSP's in a while

 

[ongli]

How do you do this in Project M?

 

[Szion]

i was just coming here to ask that

 

[AlexTheMagic]

How do you do this in Project M?

I've yet to try this but I believe if you have a copy of project M in a normal folder then you may freely tinker with the specific common5.pac data in the folder using brawlbox and then replace the old data that's in the sd card using winimage. Will update if successful.

Edit1: So for project M common5.pac is empty, the portraits are probably in another common pac

Edit2: So none of the common.pacs had portrait data in them but I managed to find some "MenSelchrFace" data in projectm/pf/menu/common/char_bust_tex
There aren't enough files to cover every character portrait so either thats not what these are or theyre only the new projectm-exclusive portraits.

Edit3: JK, these are the portraits, you just have to open a specific "MenSelchrFace" to reveal the additional palettes for each character.

Edit4: I'm replacing the old portrait image as instructed above but the program isn't letting me change "Has Palette" to "true". The dimensions for the image are right and the preview looks good.

Edit5: Alright, to switch the "Has Palette" to "true" you must select image format CI8(or similar formats). This gives the portrait a palette.

Edit6: SUCCESS! Sort of. I replaced the image it shows of your character at end-game screen where it shows your kills/deaths/etc.

Edit7: Found the buggers. C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\Project M\projectm\pf\menu2
Your copy of pm thats NOT on your SD card is where you can find and tinker with these, then its a simple "insert folder" (menu2) using winimage to replace the one on your sd card.

 

[j29736]

They're all in common5.pac. What you have to do is open it up in BrawlBox, go to sc_selecchar, then keep looking til you find MK's. Right-click, replace wih the picture you want. MAKE SURE it says True for Has Palette, or it won't work in-game.

Thank you for existing

I've yet to try this but I believe if you have a copy of project M in a normal folder then you may freely tinker with the specific common5.pac data in the folder using brawlbox and then replace the old data that's in the sd card using winimage. Will update if successful.

Edit1: So for project M common5.pac is empty, the portraits are probably in another common pac

Edit2: So none of the common.pacs had portrait data in them but I managed to find some "MenSelchrFace" data in projectm/pf/menu/common/char_bust_tex
There aren't enough files to cover every character portrait so either thats not what these are or theyre only the new projectm-exclusive portraits.

Edit3: JK, these are the portraits, you just have to open a specific "MenSelchrFace" to reveal the additional palettes for each character.

Edit4: I'm replacing the old portrait image as instructed above but the program isn't letting me change "Has Palette" to "true". The dimensions for the image are right and the preview looks good.

Edit5: Alright, to switch the "Has Palette" to "true" you must select image format CI8(or similar formats). This gives the portrait a palette.

Edit6: SUCCESS! Sort of. I replaced the image it shows of your character at end-game screen where it shows your kills/deaths/etc.

Edit7: Found the buggers. C:\Users\YourName\Desktop\Project M\projectm\pf\menu2
Your copy of pm thats NOT on your SD card is where you can find and tinker with these, then its a simple "insert folder" (menu2) using winimage to replace the one on your sd card.

And thank you holy crap you guys helped me a LOT.