Balanced Brawl Version 2 Release

[Amazing Ampharos]

Balanced Brawl Version 3 Release Candidate

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Balanced Brawl Version 2

OFFICIAL WEBSITE

DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK

Designed by Amazing Ampharos and Thinkaman

Welcome to Balanced Brawl Version 2! This has been months in the making, but the final result is worth it. We now stand with absolute confidence that our game rises to the challenge we set for ourselves; this is the same Brawl you know and love, but where every character is viable at a competitive standard.

To step back a moment, we should explain. Balanced Brawl is a modification of Brawl that seeks to improve the game in several key ways. The foundation of this project is that Brawl is a fun game that we enjoy playing. As such, we will deliberately not change any core elements that make Brawl... Brawl. The core Brawl engine remains completely in-tact, and each character was only tweaked for balance with a strong effort to ensure playstyle remains as faithful as possible to the standard Brawl counterpart.

Balanced Brawl has three main goals:

1. Increase Overall Character Balance
2. Remove Infinites and Inescapable Lockdowns
3. Increase Stage Viability

Balanced Brawl now has a website which contains much more information, including a detailed change list, a live chat, and step by step download instructions in both textual and video form.

Balanced Brawl Official Website

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In order to allow the metagame to mature, we have decided that this standard version of Balanced Brawl will remain unedited for the next 4-6 months.

We are very confident in the quality of Balanced Brawl, and we hope the stability this choice provides will allow players to explore the depths of the metagame. We do reserve the right to reverse this position if an extreme flaw in Balanced Brawl is found or if an extreme development in Brawl hacking comes along, but we hope to not have to exercise this right. We will still be here delivering high quality content and support for Balanced Brawl, and we welcome all community input to allow us to make the eventual next version even better!

We hope you enjoy Balanced Brawl!

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[Thinkaman]

For (extremely) detailed Changelists, including video, check out www.balancedbrawl.net.

We are eager to answer any questions or concerns! This has been a long time coming (again!) and I'd like to thank everyone who helped contribute in testing.

It's also my pleasure to announce that the Midwest's very own Renegade will be hosting a Major Balanced Brawl tourney on July 31st, with a guaranteed prize pot! More details will come with Ren's official announcement.

Also, definitely check out the BBrawl v2 launch video, Breakout! You can find it on the site..... or apparently the original post!

[G.D.]

Get raped, world.

[The_Altrox]

hey, so if I wanna bring over my costumes, music, etc. over to BB2, how do I go about doing that?

[Thinkaman]

Originally Posted by The_Altrox

hey, so if I wanna bring over my costumes, music, etc. over to BB2, how do I go about doing that?

Just add the files, and they will automatically work!

If you edited textures that are a part of the character's main file, like projectiles, rocketPSI made a great video tutorial on how to import them into BBrawl files. You can find it linked on the setup page of the site. Thanks rPSI!

[Amazing Ampharos]

Just take your SD card that has all that stuff (assuming none of it is gameplay related) and merge it with Balanced Brawl, overwriting any overlaps. If you had Zelda, Sheik, Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard, or Castle Siege textures, be sure to keep them separate and re-implement them afterward (they work fine and have no gameplay effect in Balanced Brawl, unlike in standard Brawl). Do note that texture hacks to Mushroomy Kingdom 1-1, Corneria, and Spear Pillar [Dialga] are not supported by Balanced Brawl (all the other stages are fine though).

[Meno]

Who's the artist behind "Breakout"?

Also, congratulations on another release guys. Taking a step back, this is an amazing project that I'm incredibly proud to be a supporter of.

Keep it up.

[hotdogturtle]

It's been so long since the standard release that I forgot that there were eventually going to be more versions. I'll be sure to read up on this and try it out.

[theunabletable]

Hmm I think I'll try this!

[Thinkaman]

Originally Posted by MenoUnderwater

Who's the artist behind "Breakout"?

Heh, I managed not to almost killing myself with 300 replays this time!

Originally Posted by MenoUnderwater

Also, congratulations on another release guys. Taking a step back, this is an amazing project that I'm incredibly proud to be a supporter of.

Keep it up.

Thanks--we hope you're able to take it to your community and enjoy it as much as we have.

Originally Posted by hotdogturtle

It's been so long since the standard release that I forgot that there were eventually going to be more versions. I'll be sure to read up on this and try it out.

Originally Posted by the unable table

Hmm I think I'll try this!

Excellent; if you want to play wi-fi, the chat panel on the website often has some people in it who are playing.

[kyokoro_pamuyo]

Congratulations on the 2nd relase!!
I'll test it by monday (though, most likely alone by the moment...)

By now, I'll start translations and the update on the Mexican forum!



EDIT: and (late) Happy Birthday, Amazing Ampharos! ^^

[Mit]

hype

Originally Posted by G.D.

Get raped, world.

Thank you so much for getting that in first post in this thread too.

Anyhow, my question from the last thread: Which stages does the stage-speed reduction code affect still? Right now I thought some of the stages had their speeds changed through their .pacs, but maybe I'm wrong. Again, just concerned for textures' sake.

and

Are the following files necessary for those of us playing with Homebrew channel:

pf/system/common5.pac
wii/app/title/everything inside of here. Random data.bin files.


I'm scared I'm going to miss the planking fix :P How is that implemented exactly? Through character .pacs? A code?

[hotdogturtle]

Can I have a changelist on mu_menumain.pac and common5.pac? I mean, just in case I want to merge my current modified ones with these ones.

[Thinkaman]

All system files have non-gameplay-related changes, except for the general ability to select Wi-Fi Waiting Room as a stage. Planking and jab lock fixes are in code, in the .gct.

On request: http://balancedbrawl.net/download/BBrawl2.txt

[Eldiran]

This is a thing of beauty -- I can't wait to play it!

Excellent job, guys!

EDIT: Happy Birthday AA!