Melee Texture Hacks Are Here!

GodFed · Aug 28, 2009

And S. has made his mark on Smashboards, too.

Here's my stuff. Since this seems to be the place, if anywhere, on the boards.
C. Falcon: Pinstripe BAIR
C. Falcon: Pinstripe PAWNCH
Mario: yeah, him, too
Pikachu: Black electrititay
Multiple: 3 of em

heh, school started, so this will probably stop for me...I'm not going to the lengths yet that S. has with this, but I've been checking out all the files and offsets and such. Pretty doable.

S. - permission to do a little tutorial here on Smashboards, in this thread, on how to texture hack Melee? You have the rights (haha, sortof) to the whole thing really, so it's your call on the tutes.

Steelia · Aug 28, 2009

GodFed said:
And S. has made his mark on Smashboards, too.

[stuff]

heh, school started, so this will probably stop for me...I'm not going to the lengths yet that S. has with this, but I've been checking out all the files and offsets and such. Pretty doable.

S. - permission to do a little tutorial here on Smashboards, in this thread, on how to texture hack Melee? You have the rights (haha, sortof) to the whole thing really, so it's your call on the tutes.

O:
Sweet stuff you've got going there... The Pikachu hack reminds me of one of the first Brawl hacks ever made.

And, ifever you find the time, I really wouldn't mind it at all if you gave a shot at making your own tutorial. School's started back up for me as well, so I've got my face buried in my college books... Ugh. Making my own tutorial's been one of the last things on my mind (given I wanted to make it a little bit... thorough).

...Ah, and ifever you figure out where the heck Stock Icons are located, PLEASE do tell. I've been wanting to edit those. >_>

GodFed · Aug 29, 2009

cool, thanks. haha, nice mario bros, btw on SS

Yeah, I'll see what I can cook up. Probably nothing too elaborate, but we'll see.

I'd figure they'd be in the Pl files, since they change with the different character colors...dunno, I'll take a look, I suppose. _0, right?

Do you think you can give me an explanation as to why some Pl files (PlMtNr example) are bigger filesizes than some of their similar colored ones (PlMtBu, etc)? I'm not sure what extra stuff is added to the files, or where, but in the case with Mewtwo, the textures that I tried seemed to work in the same offsets, but I might be wrong, since I checked with one of the eye textures - there are like 4 of them.

Toya · Aug 29, 2009

does Super Smash Bros. Melee (GALE) ISO just mean a copy of it. or is it something totally different?

EDIT: I meant is Super Smash Bros. Melee (GALE) ISO just a copy of the game.

Steelia · Aug 29, 2009

^ Erm, Toya, that IS Melee. Or rather, it's the file located in the Smash Bros. Melee GCN disc. The data stored on said disc is called an ISO.

@GodFed: That's because some files have more textures stored... In Mewtwo's case, his "normal" color .DAT file has a few scrapped eye textures, where his other 3 colors have less (I think there are four in his normal color... 1 is an extra/unused normal eye; 1 is a more cross-eyed eye; 1 is a black texture; and the last is a different hurt eye animation).
And, in some cases, there's just some access data that I'm not sure of... Not sure why some are a few lines longer to dozens of lines longer. (I think Roy's the only character with data files that are relatively close to exact.)

Toya · Aug 29, 2009

how would i go about locating that file

eagletrent242 · Aug 29, 2009

I'm very interested in this project but from what I'm reading it can only be done with a Wii? I only play Melee on my gamecube. And so the ISO is the original disc or it one that is downloaded from a torrent and burned to a DVD?

Steelia · Aug 29, 2009

Toya said:
how would i go about locating that file

Unfortunately, that is something that cannot be discussed, as such talk could be deemed illegal, whether you have the game or not.
All I can say is, if you have a Wii, the Homebrew Channel, and a special disc-dumping app, you can get it that way.

eagletrent242 said:
I'm very interested in this project but from what I'm reading it can only be done with a Wii? I only play Melee on my gamecube. And so the ISO is the original disc or it one that is downloaded from a torrent and burned to a DVD?

Aye, these textures/hackings only work with Melee on the Nintendo Wii. I don't know of any way to play them on the GCN.
But yes, you'd get the ISO of Melee (someway or another), and burn it to DVD-R... You'd need something called the Homebrew Channel installed on your Wii, and certain other apps to run your disc.

Toya · Aug 29, 2009

I've been trying to install the Wad Manager, and Homebrew won't load anything off my SD card.
I know i did it right, but i don't get the option to install it, should i re install homebrew then try again?

Steelia · Aug 29, 2009

^ So the Homebrew Channel installed successfully?
What update version of Wii do you have?

I believe, in the root of the SD Card, you need to have a folder called "wads" or "wad", where you stick the WADs... then another folder, marked "app" where you put the Homebrew apps inside (including the WAD Manager itself).

Toya · Aug 29, 2009

Steelia said:
^ So the Homebrew Channel installed successfully?
What update version of Wii do you have?

I believe, in the root of the SD Card, you need to have a folder called "wads" or "wad", where you stick the WADs... then another folder, marked "app" where you put the Homebrew apps inside (including the WAD Manager itself).

i did all that, my problem was the lack of a boot.elf.
now that i have it, it says error 2011.

I take it i have to downgrade my wii, which i am currently in the process of doing.

Toya · Aug 29, 2009

and for some reason can't do, because when i try to load the wads i need to it just makes me restart my wii...

ugh, this is so dumb.

Steelia · Aug 29, 2009

^ Huh. You must be missing a program in there somewhere.

I'll assume you've already followed THIS mini-tutorial? Has some stuff you might be missing.

As a last(?) resort, I'd recommend trying to find a forum that specializes in this kind of thing, and look for a possible answer for your problem... Either by searching forums, or making a topic about it at those places.

Toya · Aug 29, 2009

i haven't gotten WAD manager running yet.
I either get error 2011 or error 1

but i may have solved it, i'll find out later.

GodFed · Aug 30, 2009

S., this is a complete guess on my part, but the icon textures could be stored in the character selection screen. Read the thread "Character Selection Bug" somewhere around here, which explains that depending on the displayed csp portrait, not the chosen character, the icons are chosen for the match.
eg- choose falco, change csp via glitch to yoshi, and you get yoshi icons in-game while playing as falco

once again, a completely unfounded guess, with no evidence, and only my thoughts. ..check it out if it makes sense, unless you haven't already. I figured that it's not in the Pl files, since that's only model data specifically for the textures on the models...not for icons.

Steelia · Aug 30, 2009

^ The "Pl" stuff, I believe, is only strictly related to the characters' models, and their textures. That's really about it. Their CSPs are located in another .DAT file altogether, so I'd assume so would their Stock Icons.
I'll have to check that out. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the two were bundled together, as the person whom I saw hack the Melee stock icons also hacked some of the "Choose Your Character" roster icons.

GodFed · Aug 30, 2009

Yeah, the only thing would be sorting through the oodles of hex data to find each one...

ah, the guy with the luigi, yellow kirby, and mushroom kingdom edits? I saw that..so the locations are probably related in the files.

SleepyK · Sep 1, 2009

I have a megaupload link of the melee iso if anyone wants it. PM me.

also if you want to run GC homebrew..

http://us.codejunkies.com/Products/GCN/Wii-SD-Media-Launcher___EF000589.aspx

will let you run burned melee on your GC.

chaddd · Sep 1, 2009

Hey guys.

Ganondorf, chaddd Edition custom texture is now available for download. Megaupload won't keep it forever so if Stack Smash would like to host it, then by all means, please.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9N25S8O2

Enjoy.

Cia · Sep 1, 2009

niceee.

that makes me actually want to use ganon.

for like.. a few friendlies.

good stuff

DtJ Jungle · Sep 1, 2009

wow that texture is pretty bad ***.

hows it possible to do this on the cube?

IM me if it crosses lines on SWF.

Cia · Sep 1, 2009

^ you have to download it (melee) onto a DVD-R and play it on the wii

Anth0ny · Sep 1, 2009

That Ganon texture is legendary. Good ****!

Steelia · Sep 1, 2009

Grand news for those who've been waiting.

At long last, a guide on how to texture hack Melee's been made to fruition. You can actually find the topic at these forums, here:

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=247119

The guide itself is by GodFed; MuraRengan gets props for writing a guide on how to actually PLAY the hacks... I just wrote the part in the guide on how to figure out +1 and +2 textures.

In any case, now that a guide's finally been released, I can get to organizing those Melee texture packages I've been holding onto for so long. All I need to do at this point is to get rid of a program or two, put in some extra files I may have missed, give each package their heaping helping of TCS files... and then host 'em on Megaupload and see how that rolls.
This'll be an interesting Labor Day weekend.

Vulcan55 · Sep 1, 2009

By "Texture packages", you wouldn't happen to mean unedited textures, would you?

Steelia · Sep 2, 2009

Vulcan55 said:
By "Texture packages", you wouldn't happen to mean unedited textures, would you?

Precisely.

While I've far from ripped every character costume in the game... I HAVE ripped at least 1 costume a character (save Mr. Game & Watch, naturally), and got one or two stages that have also been figured out. Includes the Wireframes, Giga Bowser, the Hands, even the CSPs for all the characters.

'V' · Sep 2, 2009

Pimping Ganondorf.

LSDX · Sep 9, 2009

I know it's been done in Brawl, but could it be possible for anyone to create a Ronald McDonald texture for Captain Falcon?

GodFed · Sep 9, 2009

@McSnapple - It's incredibly possible. I've actually half done one (the sleeves and the helmet with the McDonalds logo), so I'll probably upload that along with other goodies near the end of the week.

Tichinde925 · Sep 13, 2009

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