Readying the game for modding
So you've got the game installed! You could play it like that but you'd be missing out on all the cool mods people are making! Stuff like P5EX or TRP! So we'll need to do some initial things to get the game ready for modding. First off, you need to find the PPU EXECUTABLE HASH for the game.
To do so, boot up the game and let it run for a few seconds. After that close the emulator entirely. Navigate to where you have your emulator installed and you should see a file named rpcs3.log. Open it in any text editor, the default Notepad should do plenty. Now hit Control+F (Ctrl+F) to bring up the search tab and type "ppu exe" and click Find. You should see a string that goes something along the lines of:
That "PPU-somethingsomething" is your PPU Hash, take note of it. Now you have to make an important decision. If you are going to use P5EX or not. P5EX is a very advanced mod that is also a sort of framework for other mods so it is recommended to install it. If you want to do so, go ahead and use Loaf's Guide on how to install P5EX. If you installed P5EX you can skip to the next step. If you instead opted for the more "classic" way of modding the game, keep reading here.
The way we load up mods for Persona 5 is through patching the game executable to load a file conviently named mod.cpk. This is an Archive of files that is going to get loaded before the actual game files to allow mods to "overwrite" the normal game files. (You can learn more about the CPK format on the Amicitia Wiki) Fortunately, you don't have to do any of the hard work because other people figured it out and made it easy and simple! Simply go to ShrineFox's Patch Creator, provide it with your PPU Hash and select the patches you want to use!
Do not use the P5EX and Mod SPRX patches if you are NOT using P5EX
After you've selected all the patches that interest you, scroll down to "Download patch.yml" and select "New Format" when prompted to select wich to use. It should download a patch.yml file. Put the patch.yml file inside of <RPCS3InstallDir>/patches Then boot up RPCS3 and go into Manage > Game Patches.
If a message pops up saying that the formatting is wrong, try redoing the last step. If you are prompted to update your patches by the emulator, do not as it will overwrite all the patches you selected.
You can enable the Checkbox "Only show installed games" so that you don't get confused by all the different dropdown menus
Open the Persona 5 dropdown and select all of the patches you want to enable. You don't need to enable all of them at once but make sure to always have: "Enable Mod Support" enabled so that the game will load the mod.cpk And you're done with this step! Onto the next one to figure out how to install mods!
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