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This page details the process that Firestar uses internally to bundle mods together into the final package that can be read by the game. It is heavily based off of a similar guide on the PS3 Dev Wiki, which also describes the appropriate compression settings for various PS3 games, including WipEout HD Fury. Since WipEout 2048 is a fork from the HD Fury codebase, these same instructions apply to the PSVita. We owe a special thanks to the PS3 homebrew community for documenting these instructions.

The directions below are written for a Windows system, but they can be effortlessly adapted to any Unix-like machine with WINE installed.

Without further ado:

Part 1: Generating a File Whitelist

We need to create a list of files that psp2psarc will import when we rebuild the PSARC later.

  1. Generate a list of contents inside the original PSARC and save it to a text file 
    psp2psarc.exe list data.psarc > filelist.txt
  2. Open the file in a text editor with support for Find & Replace w/ RegEx
    • Some editors such as Trinity KWrite parse RegEx incorrectly and won't work with some of the commands shown.
  3. Find and replace by nothing: Listing.*\n to delete the first line.
  4. Find and replace by nothing: [^\b]\(.*\) to remove size information.
  5. Find and replace by nothing: \r\n$ to delete the trailing whitespace at the end of the file.
    • This could potentially be \n$ if you are on a non-Windows system.

Part 2: Using the Whitelist to Regenerate the PSARC

  1. Add your modded files to the extracted data/ folder, which you created earlier using the "Creating Mods (Dumping PSARCs & Creating FSTAR Packs)" page.
  2. Within the list, manually append paths to any additional files you have added to the data/ folder.
  3. Repack the assets: 
    psp2psarc.exe create --skip-missing-files -j12 -a -i --input-file=filelist.txt -o dlc2.psarc
    • Ensure you are in the correct working directory or else this will fail and/or the assets may be placed in the wrong location within the PSARC.
    • skip-missing-files is essential if you don't want to pull your hair out. :)

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