Hey peeps, i did everything as required in the instructions, started netplay with my friend but the game freezes a lot, especially when mario uses his fireball.
Whats going on?
There is issue with BrawlEX related to FX (ef_file) from a character vs it's clone that has never been fixed up to this day and that are present in all BrawlEx build including Legacy XP.
essentially there seem to be some setting that are not "unloading" properly between matches and that cause crash when you play a match with 1 character and with it's clone right in the next match. (or following next matches)
Try this, you'll most likely crash 100% of the time :
1) start the game
2) select a match with mario and luigi
3) shoot 2-3 fireball with mario and quit the match
4) choose a mario clone (Dr mario) vs luigi and start a new match
5) you will crash when trying to shoot a Pill with mario.
I've known that issue for months but it's gonna take a very experienced coder to try and debug what's going on with this and fix BrawlEx.
I have a weird workaround that seem to work most of the time that you can try :
If you load the Clone character first in a match then load the original character, it tend to not crash anymore.
So when I play with friends, I usually start 1 or 2 "empty" match where I load all the clone characters first then quit to character select right as the match start and it seem to help stop the crashing issues...
also, I've seen some people suggest to go back to the title menu after each matchs to "reset" all thing loaded in memory (I've not really tested that method)