Help with stage/character textures

[arcane9211]

Apologies if this is the wrong section/stupid questions

I have homebrew/gecko/2 gb sd card/ code manager and I'm trying this on standard brawl.

I can only get character textures to work sometimes, and stage textures not at all.

I've been following this step by step (and to no avail on stages) http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=262863

I've tried a variety of different things, but I need clarification. First question: If I download a texture and its not already in .pcs format, do I have to rename it to .pcs or convert it somehow? I've tried renaming to .pcs already as well as leaving the file as is, but neither has worked. I have gotten some character textures to work, though, so I know I'm doing some things right. They generally only seem to work when the file is already in .pcs format.

When I tried to get stage textures to work, I made a folder called "stage" within "pf" and then another folder named "melee" within "stage". If I tried a new FD texture, for example, I would name it stgfinal.pcs and put it within "melee". So, to clarify, within the folder "pf", I have both "fighter" and "stage".

Also, for stage textures, am I right in that I should look through the downloaded folder, find the stage texture file, and move that file to within "melee"?

 

[Mr.Chuy]

Stage textures should be in the pac format not pcs
character textures work like this
pac for single player modes
pcs for group modes

 

[arcane9211]

Thanks for telling me that Mr.Chuy. The stage texture guide has it wrong, then. I'll try stage textures again tomorrow I guess.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong for characters? I'm trying them only in versus matches and I always name the downloads Fit"insert proper character name"00.pcs (or whatever number slot I'm trying).

 

[Mr.Chuy]

fit*character*00.pcs is ALWAYS the default costume
are you testing the default costume?

 

[arcane9211]

No, I was just using that as an example, which is why I said "or whatever number slot I'm trying". Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. But yeah, that's not the issue.

 

[Mr.Chuy]

May i ask what character you're making a texture for and what folder you're putting it in?

 

[arcane9211]

It's been doing to me for every character, but not every time. It's not any one character that's giving me an issue. For the record, I've been trying them on marth, metaknight, dedede, luigi, peach, pit, falco, fox, ike, and snake so far.

I'm placing the textures in private>wii>app>RSBE>pf>fighter>"character name".

Most of the time when I download a file (I've been finding them on kc-mm.com in the brawl vault) and the file is already in .pcs format, it works. What am I supposed to do if it's a .rar file?


Oh btw, I've gotten stages to work thanks!

 

[Mr.Chuy]

1.Character names don't always go by their names for example Bowser his folder should be called "Koopa"
2.Download winrar so it can open rar files

 

[arcane9211]

It's not the character names, I've been making sure I've had those right. I'll try winrar, thanks.

 

[Mr.Chuy]

Give me an example of one of the textures you're using and where you're putting it at

 

[OmEG@]

hmm

it sounds like your doing it right, so your sure the code's right? and well its a hunch but when adding the stage hacks, did you cap all the letters?

 

[arcane9211]

I believe I've figured everything out. Winrar fixed my .rar troubles, and the stage issue was because the guide here on smashboards was incorrect in saying that stages should be .pcs instead of .pac. Thanks a ton for the help!

 

[Pattykepps]

I'm having some trouble.
Ok I'm going to be pretty discriptive so I can get some good answers, hopefully.
I have a 256mb sd, I have all the hbc files which pretty much take up alot if space.
I dl all masterlinkx codes but I couldn't get everything on my sd so I made a pf folder in RSBE then made a fighter folder in the pf, then I dragged the fighters name with textures in it and put them in the fighter folder.
Then I got phantom wings latest file code thing and gcted it to my sd. I checked everything before finishing and everything seem right. I put the sd in and load geckos(1.9.3) and it loads say codes found but when I go to choose the character I got textures for there are none and even when I pick a char when I go to choose a lvl it freezes.
If there's anything wrong with what I'm doing plz point it out

 

[Pattykepps]

When I dled the textures I didn't extracted anything. I just opened winrar and moved the texture files to my sd