Enable all alternate costumes in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition for the PC
One of the great things about Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition is how easily mod-able it is. Capcom seemed to take great care in how the game's files are layed out. As a side effect of this, it's also very very easy to switch between costumes for each charter. All that requires is some simple renaming and moving a few files. Capcom also included every single alternative costume with the initial install of Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition making it simple to enable all content that usually costs about $15
This guide will assume you understand how to rename and move files using explorer. Make sure to back up every file you change. Also, this has not been tested online. It should work, but it may also count as a hack and ban you from using the game online on windows live games or steam. So be warned it's possible and use at your own risk
The very first thing you need to do is determine where all the files are. You'll need the folder you originally installed Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition into. It's usually "c:\program files\Super Street Fighter IV". Make a note of where that base folder is. For the rest of this guide it will be refereed to as *base* .We will be using various sub folders of that base folder. Now the actual files are divided up by what character they are. Each character has it's own sub folder.
Before we proceed with locations, you'll need to understand the PC game is based on the xbox version of super street fighter IV. On the xbox the arcade edition was DLC content. This DLC added 4 new characters: Oni, Evil Ryu, Yun, Yang. These 4 characters are in a different place an have a slightly different layout then the other characters
Now for the list
Super Street Fighter IV
skins 1&2 are in the folder: *base*\resource\battle\chara
skins 3&4 are in the folder: *base*\dlc\02_costume\battle\chara
The sub folder each correspond to a specific character:
ADN - Adon
AGL - C. Viper
BLK - Blanka
BLR - Balrog (in america it's Vega)
BOS - Seth
BSN - M.Bison (in america it's Balrog)
CDY - Cody
CHB - Rufus
CMY - Cammy
CNL - ChunLi
DAN - Dan
DDL - Dudley
DJY - Deejay
DSM - Dhalsim
FLN - FeiLong
GEN - Gen
GKI - Gouki (in America It's Akuma)
GKN - Goukon
GUL - Guile
GUY - Guy
HKN - Hakkan
HND - E.Honda
HWK - T.Hawk
IBK - Ibuki
JHA - Abel
JRI - Juri
KEN - Ken
MKT - Makoto
RIC - El Fuerte
ROS - Rose
RYU - Ryu
SGT - Safat
SKR - Sakura
VEG - Vega (in america It's M. Bison)
ZGF - Zangief
Now for the super street fighter IV arcade edition DLC characters
All skins are in the same folder - *base*\dlc\03_character\battle\chara
GKX - Oni
RYX - Evil Ryu
YAN - Yan
YUN - Yun
For the purposes of this guide I'll use Adon as an example. Going into the ADN folder (*base*\resource\battle\chara\ADN) you'll see a number of files. Each skin has two files. One is the color, the other one is the object that's being colored (aka costume). These files are numbered according to what skin slot they are. The very first skin slot (the default color and object) for Adon is named ADN_01_01.col.emb and ADN_01_01.obj.emm. "ADN" refers to the model, in this case Adon. The file with "col" in it is the color, the "obj" is the object. All alternative costumes are labeled the same way, only the first number is changed. For adon the first alternative color and object are named ADN_02_01.col.emb and ADN_02_01.obj.emm
To enable the alternative costumes, you can simply rename the alternatve constume to match the original costumes. Rename ADN_02_01.col.emb and ADN_02_01.obj.emm to ADN_01_01.col.emb and ADN_01_01.obj.emm. Note that you can't have two files of the same name, so just rename the original costumes to something else
Now start up super street fighter IV arcade edition and go into the training room. Select adon and make sure he is suing color 1. If all works correctly Adon should know be wearing the 2nd alternative costume
To get costumes 3 and 4 simply copy the correct files to where skins 1 and 2 are located. now rename them to match the original costume like you did before.
For Oni, Evil Ryu, Yun, and yang it's slightly different. they only have 3 costumes in total and all are in the same folder. Follow the same instructions for naming as before
Note: Included as an attachment is the list of what folders belong to what characters.
One of the great things about Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition is how easily mod-able it is. Capcom seemed to take great care in how the game's files are layed out. As a side effect of this, it's also very very easy to switch between costumes for each charter. All that requires is some simple renaming and moving a few files. Capcom also included every single alternative costume with the initial install of Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition making it simple to enable all content that usually costs about $15
This guide will assume you understand how to rename and move files using explorer. Make sure to back up every file you change. Also, this has not been tested online. It should work, but it may also count as a hack and ban you from using the game online on windows live games or steam. So be warned it's possible and use at your own risk
Step 1 - Gathering information
The very first thing you need to do is determine where all the files are. You'll need the folder you originally installed Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition into. It's usually "c:\program files\Super Street Fighter IV". Make a note of where that base folder is. For the rest of this guide it will be refereed to as *base* .We will be using various sub folders of that base folder. Now the actual files are divided up by what character they are. Each character has it's own sub folder.
Before we proceed with locations, you'll need to understand the PC game is based on the xbox version of super street fighter IV. On the xbox the arcade edition was DLC content. This DLC added 4 new characters: Oni, Evil Ryu, Yun, Yang. These 4 characters are in a different place an have a slightly different layout then the other characters
Now for the list
Super Street Fighter IV
skins 1&2 are in the folder: *base*\resource\battle\chara
skins 3&4 are in the folder: *base*\dlc\02_costume\battle\chara
The sub folder each correspond to a specific character:
ADN - Adon
AGL - C. Viper
BLK - Blanka
BLR - Balrog (in america it's Vega)
BOS - Seth
BSN - M.Bison (in america it's Balrog)
CDY - Cody
CHB - Rufus
CMY - Cammy
CNL - ChunLi
DAN - Dan
DDL - Dudley
DJY - Deejay
DSM - Dhalsim
FLN - FeiLong
GEN - Gen
GKI - Gouki (in America It's Akuma)
GKN - Goukon
GUL - Guile
GUY - Guy
HKN - Hakkan
HND - E.Honda
HWK - T.Hawk
IBK - Ibuki
JHA - Abel
JRI - Juri
KEN - Ken
MKT - Makoto
RIC - El Fuerte
ROS - Rose
RYU - Ryu
SGT - Safat
SKR - Sakura
VEG - Vega (in america It's M. Bison)
ZGF - Zangief
Now for the super street fighter IV arcade edition DLC characters
All skins are in the same folder - *base*\dlc\03_character\battle\chara
GKX - Oni
RYX - Evil Ryu
YAN - Yan
YUN - Yun
Step 2 - What to move
For the purposes of this guide I'll use Adon as an example. Going into the ADN folder (*base*\resource\battle\chara\ADN) you'll see a number of files. Each skin has two files. One is the color, the other one is the object that's being colored (aka costume). These files are numbered according to what skin slot they are. The very first skin slot (the default color and object) for Adon is named ADN_01_01.col.emb and ADN_01_01.obj.emm. "ADN" refers to the model, in this case Adon. The file with "col" in it is the color, the "obj" is the object. All alternative costumes are labeled the same way, only the first number is changed. For adon the first alternative color and object are named ADN_02_01.col.emb and ADN_02_01.obj.emm
To enable the alternative costumes, you can simply rename the alternatve constume to match the original costumes. Rename ADN_02_01.col.emb and ADN_02_01.obj.emm to ADN_01_01.col.emb and ADN_01_01.obj.emm. Note that you can't have two files of the same name, so just rename the original costumes to something else
Now start up super street fighter IV arcade edition and go into the training room. Select adon and make sure he is suing color 1. If all works correctly Adon should know be wearing the 2nd alternative costume
To get costumes 3 and 4 simply copy the correct files to where skins 1 and 2 are located. now rename them to match the original costume like you did before.
For Oni, Evil Ryu, Yun, and yang it's slightly different. they only have 3 costumes in total and all are in the same folder. Follow the same instructions for naming as before
Note: Included as an attachment is the list of what folders belong to what characters.
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