Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl

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Keyboard Keybinds!
By OnionSama
So you wanna play Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl with a keyboard huh ? Welcome to the club!
   
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Is keyboard viable for this game ?
You might have realised that pretty much 99% of the community prefers using a controller instead of a keyboard which is nothing new for fighting games.

But I do believe this game is actually extremely keyboard friendly!

First of all this game uses Digital input meaning you won't be losing any possible angles by going with keyboard.

Also most hand movements this game makes you do feels rather natural on keyboard but this one obviously depends on your binds.

So due to these I say for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, choice between Keyboard and Controller really is a matter of personal preference.
How to do the binds?
In the options section as you can see there are no options for changing keybinds
You have to go to the character select screen and press C to rebind your keys

In that screen you can rebind anything you want! ... Except movement keys. For some reason movement keys are locked to arrows
Also menu navigation is always on Z, X, C but I assume that shouldn't be a problem for many people

When you open the rebind section you can scroll down(↓) and see all the actions with a bind next to them
Thoose are the default binds

When you hover over them you can press any button on your keyboard(except arrow keys ofc) and it will bind that action to that button! Pretty neat right?

But wait! There is more!

I am not sure if this is a bug or not but the game seem to remember everything you bound to an action even after you change it, and keeps it until you bind another action to that specific button.

Meaning even tho keybinds section is only capable of showing 1 bind per action, you can actually bind as many buttons to an action as you want!
You want entirety of your numpad to make you jump ?
You can do that! ... Why would you do that ?
No idea. But you can!

I really hope even if this is a bug they won't ever "fix" it and if possible go the opposite way and let us see all the buttons we have bound to every action without going into game files and opening the controls.json file with a text editor(Strafe action is called "Fun" in the json file for some reason lol)

Also after you bind them if you ever open rebind section again and go over the binds by pressing ↓ without changing them you might see them change back to their default state.
Don't worry this seem to be only a visual bug. There is nothing to worry about.
You can just press confirm to close it, even tho the buttons that are being shown in binds are not yours when you get in game you will still have your layout.
My Binds
Attack=A
Strong=S
Special=D
Jump=Space
Airdash/Defend=Q, W, E, Left Shift, Right Shift
Grab=F, num0
Strafe=Left Ctrl, Right Ctrl
Taunt=R, T, Num1
Do i actually use all that ?
Except numpad binds... Kinda yeah
I don't remember pressing the numpad ones even once

I only put stuff to numpad 0 and 1 because I usually do put stuff there when I play a game with arrow keys due to them being easily accessable with pinky finger especially the num0 button
Will they ever come in handy ? I doubt.
But why not go for it anyways considering I already went overboard with my Airdash/Defend binds
11 Comments
Eternal2401 27 Nov, 2021 @ 3:05pm 
turns out they patched it so you can rebind directions
OnionSama  [author] 12 Oct, 2021 @ 1:18pm 
By default it binds everything to multiple stuff
Games interface is really bad because it fails to show how many stuff are bound to each action
U can technically open the "controls.json" folder from "AppData\LocalLow\GameMill Entertainment\Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl" with a text editor to check what is bound to what
and I assume you should be able to change them there as well
But I haven't tried doing it manually so idk if the game will force change it or smth but I doubt it
Wayne 12 Oct, 2021 @ 11:35am 
I don't know, each time i bind strong and airdodge they go back to a random key and i can also use Ctrl for basic attack or tab for taunt, i never used those keys before, keybinds are broken xd
OnionSama  [author] 12 Oct, 2021 @ 10:12am 
I explained how keybinds works in "How to do the binds?" section of this guide
The way they work is a bit confusing at first but I believe that section explains it rather well
Atleast thats as good as I was able to explain it
Wayne 12 Oct, 2021 @ 9:12am 
Idk what they did with key binding but that's horrible i can't even play. When i bind airdodge and strong attack and go in game, they don't work and i have to search them randomly on my keyboard
OnionSama  [author] 11 Oct, 2021 @ 2:47pm 
Both having Ground Up version of moves (Up Attack and Up Strong) and jumping on up arrow would make things harder
I assume only way to do grounded up moves would be to press up arrow and attack button at the same frame
100% Doable tho so an option for it could be nice for thoose who prefer it that way
Sm3gma 11 Oct, 2021 @ 1:57pm 
All I want is to be able to jump with up arrow key
The Dishwasher 10 Oct, 2021 @ 9:56pm 
Looked for a key re-bind option in the menu but, couldn't find it.
Do they just not have one?
OnionSama  [author] 7 Oct, 2021 @ 11:28pm 
Sadly as of now there is no option to change movement to WASD
speed.panda 7 Oct, 2021 @ 10:10pm 
Is there WASD option?