Hey! Thanks so much for the mod, Vergil! You've inspired me to work on some textures of my own. Definitely going to send a donation your way. :3
For information gathering's sake, everything worked perfectly on the first try for me with r53, so I didn't need to use r49. I can always get r49 though, just to see if it works. I am running Win7 64 and using the resolution fix .bat file to run the game. (if anyone needs this, I can provide the link)
One thing I noticed that was kinda strange about the mod. In the character select screen and most of the stages, the alpha part of the mod works perfectly, but on the desert stage, for some reason, you can see hints of the bandages still. Maybe it's shadows or some kind of lighting that is illuminating the clothing in that particular stage because it is so bright? I don't know. In any case, it's not a big deal, just wanted to point it out in case you wanted to look into it.
On the subject of modding, I started messing around in uMod and extracted some textures, but I'm not sure on which ones that need to be modded. I extracted all the textures that had to do with the costume I'm messing around with, but there is a handful. I'm guessing there are separate textures for mapping, alpha, and whatnot. Is there a detailed guide thread for uMod somewhere in the forums, or should I just experiment? The ones I looked at which pertained to uMod were game specific.
Thanks again for the great mod! Hopefully I'll be able to contribute soon as well. :3
Edit: I ended up extracting the un-edited Momiji textures and are comparing them to see how it works, so I think I should be good to go. I'm trying to work on Helena atm, (if her costumes allow) but plan to work on more if it all works out.