br3compactor
Smash Ace
It's been a little over ten years since Brawl was released. It's also been little over ten years since it started to be modded. And even after all this time and all the mods, some people just don't want it to be like Melee 2.0. Or like anything else really. They just want it to have the game fit to what they like.
When you boot vBrawl on your Wii/Dolphin, the default game seems to be very lacking in content and features when you consider all that can be made avaliable through mods. When you factor mods in, a lot can be possible, as long as you know what you're doing.
But what if you don't?
In this spirit, this project has been started. I present to you Brawl Decade (formerly Project Freezeproof).
Brawl Decade is a community-focused mod meant to be the definitive vBrawl experience.
This mod has three main purposes, all of which can be summarized in four letter words.
The # 1 purpose of Brawl Decade is:
Brawl Decade has everything vBrawl had, with more.
- More characters.
- More costumes.
- More stages.
- More music.
- More customization.
- More possibilities.
These shall be achieved through features like:
- BrawlEX Characters
- 50CP
- Secret Costumes
- Tag-specific costumes
- JOJI's Stage Expansion System
- New Tracklist System
- Individual Pokémon and Sheik/ZSS on the CSS
- Unlimited control settings
- Debug mode
And many more!
The # 2 purpose of Brawl Decade is:
Some people enjoy playing Brawl and like how it feels to play. Decade doesn't intend to turn it into any other game. It's straight up Brawl.
All gameplay mechanics from Brawl will be kept, and it will aim to play 1:1 as if you were playing legit, vanilla Brawl, except with tons and tons of more content. Even stuff that other modpacks tend to remove will be kept, so long as the game still feels the same to play.
Started with Ivysaur and it was knocked out? The next Pokémon will follow. The opponent decided to run towards you to punish a wrong move? Watch him trip away like it's 2008. If it's Brawl you love, it's Brawl you'll get.
The # 3 purpose of Brawl Decade is:
Brawl Decade should be the easiest to mod. You know, maybe you don't like the costumes that much. Maybe you're just not that into tripping. Maybe you just want Goku or Sans to be in there as well.
Brawl Decade will aim to have custom paths and custom file naming to allow the game to be the easiest version of Brawl to mod.
An example of what is intended for v 1.0:
Imagine you want to give Squirtle a costume to replace its first recolor. You can go to:
SD:\Brawl\Fighter\Squirtle and add your Squirtle01.pac there.
Custom paths and custom file naming will allow even new users to mod their games with ease, making it so more and more people can enjoy the world of Brawl Hacking.
If you're interested in asking any questions, voice your opinions, leave suggestions or just want to discuss the mod concept and hopefully help, feel free to join! We have a Discord group and this thread will stay open for anyone interested in discussing the project!
Current Build state: v0.2 (still no public download).
First public release planned: August/2020
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