Modding SF4 for PC (No DLC Unlocks!)

oh i thought you were able to change the way the game recorded matches, as it is now it records your championship mode final matches. i want to use this feature for my ranked matches since I play those more so that I could show a friend so he can critique my gameplay.

i have fraps but its really unplayable with it running, also i don’t have much room on my harddrive to record matches well.

I went ahead and tried to play online with the move swaps and it does infact work. I had a Zangief that fought like ryu and everyone i fought just DC’d after i beat them the first round. Didnt get any hate mail but maybe the game just DC’s you because of the move swap. But it does work, for atleast one round.

Edit: I’ve had 10 stright people just quit mid match. all of them scrubbish players. and the guy tried to counter pick me too. so much to his suprize that gief fought like ryu. kinda funny imo. I’m having alot of fun with it atm.

second edit: I got to round 3 before the last guy DC’d on me. So yeah, it works online with the windows live thing. But i wouldnt expect people to stick around. I havent finished one game as my ryugief. On further thought i guess it is cheating, The fireballs are invisible since zief really has no flame graphic, and ryu with gief’s health pool is A bit much, Still fun though.

Hit me up! I’ll play ya. GT is same as username. Oh and why would you swap Gief with a Shoto? Gief is a beast… If anything I would swap his moves with Ryu.

@Digital: I have a ton of space and so long as I don’t max the settings I can capture 720p at mid-high settings with less then 5 frame drop. I try to milk it too much and get the best graphics so I lose like 10-15 fps lol. It is a chunker though… With the frame limiter off I get 132fps with the same settings I get 52fps while running fraps…

lol hey ryu’s shinruken does look pretty dope.

i wanna see rog throw out hadoukens and sonic booms

I have fraps too… I just meant so I didn’t have to record while I play since fraps files get huge, I could just save the replay and fraps it later.

If there isn’t a way to save replay then you don’t really have a choice. To be honest, I never care for replay features on a fighting game.

i managed to edit part of the cmn.emz of zangief and somehow when i started the game he had no moves, he could walk, dash, and jump, but no moveset.

We’re probably gonna have an editor for that soon, wierder shit has happened.
Capcom could also put out their tools but game companies almost never do.

Someone really needs to make a small step by step guide how to add these changes because a lot of people, me included, dont have a clue.
Support the community ya;ll :slight_smile:

someone needs to make balrog kick y’all.

Is there any guide how to add these two skins ? Especially the cammy one ?

For those unfamiliar with TexMod, there’s a quick tutorial on how to run .tpf files using it (with Tomb Raider as an example):
http://tombraiderhub.com/tr7/modding/texmod/running.html

PS. Also, some antivirus apps consider TexMod a trojan or something and the game will crash if you try to run it through TexMod, so you’ll have to disable the antivirus for it to work.

PPS. Not that it’ll help at all - i don’t understand how to get SF4 to run through TM. Damn chinese and their hacks.

It’s harder to edited them the other way but it’s better. No need to have to run texmod to view the textures.

How do you convert a .dat file into a .emz file?

I guess I’ll explain it in a way that everyone can understand.

On the first post arayashiki01, kindly posted the software needed to make all of our current efforts possible.

1.)Offzip. The link is in the first post, get it.

2.)You must open the zip folder containing Offzip then place it in the folder you want to extract the files from IE: C:\Program Files\CAPCOM\STREETFIGHTERIV\Battle\Chara\CNL. The same thing that arayashiki01 already posted.

3.)Create a folder to dump the DAT file in after you extract it.

4.)If you’re a Vista user hold shift in the folder(the folder with the EMZs not the empty folder…) and right click. Press “Open command line here” then type in offzip.exe -m 16 -a -z -15(this tells the command line what to do) followed by the file name, in the case of the CMN files you type CNL(character name).CMN(the file type).EMZ(This is the zip type) then add the folder name “yourfoldernamehere” 0 (with space and a zero after) then press enter. It till show a bunch of stuff that looks like:

In the folder will be a DAT file.

5.)Once you have the DAT file, open it in Hex editor(please google) open the dat file you want to edit and scroll to the bottom where (as Digital posted already…) you will see the top image:

6.)As shown on the bottom image, change the initial of the characters moves you want to transfer(if you want blanka to have sagats moves you have to edit sagats CMN then go to the bottom change the initials of SGT to BLK (NOTE: It has to be capital letters)

7.)Go to File>Save as then type the Initials of the character you want to use the moves IE: BLK.cmn.emz hex editor will create the EMZ for you.

8.)Copy or Cut and paste the file in the character folder you want to use it.

9.) Launch SF4 and enjoy.

Thanks. I can’t believe I didn’t go to Save As…

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DAMNIT I didn’t get a chance to post it because I was typing that tut… Thanks for posting it.

The command-line method is better simply because TM won’t even log the textures (since you can only start launcher through it, but launcher then starts the actual sf4 and TM has no effect there). For it to have any use one has to devise a way to start sf4 directly, bypassing the launcher. Or so it seems. And in the end it’s not worth the hassle, yeah.

Wow thanks. That’s great that people are already screwing capcom over for making us pay for content which should be an unlockable.