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Creating-Mods.md

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As with any and all video games, before you can create mods, it's usually a good idea to dump the original assets first so you have an idea of what artwork the game is looking for and how you can manipulate it. If you don't have a good grasp of a game's internal filesystem then it can be a shot in the dark trying to replace the original assets effectively.
## Extracting the original PSARC files
<div style="background-color:#ffa78c;border:2px solid #f00;"><b>DISCLAIMER: psp2psarc.exe is proprietary, confidential software owned by Sony Computer Entertainment.</b> While it's highly unlikely that they will punish anyone for using a leaked SDK from a decade ago on discontinued hardware, it's worth noting that <b>Sony can decide to revoke the download links on this page at any given time</b> as well as any of the archives found elsewhere online. The current only exception to this is Archive.org which has a DMCA exemption in the United States. If you are not comfortable using psp2psarc.exe, you may try one of it's many open-source alternatives made by the Vita hacking community. Many of these tools will only work for extracting though, not repacking, or are buggy. Use whichever one works best for you, and choose so at your own risk.</div>
## Extracting the original PSARC files
To extract PSARC files, we use a tool from the Vita SDK called PSP2PSARC.
You can download psp2psarc.exe [here](https://bonkmaykr.worlio.com/http/firestar/psp2psarc.exe), or if you already have Firestar installed and set up, you can find it in your ~/.firestar/ folder.
<div style="background-color:#ffa78c;border:2px solid #f00;"><b>DISCLAIMER: psp2psarc.exe is proprietary, confidential software owned by Sony Computer Entertainment.</b> While it is normally safe, using it is <b>technically illegal.</b> If you are not comfortable using psp2psarc.exe, you may try one of it's many open-source alternatives made by the Vita hacking community. Many of these tools will only work for extracting though, not repacking, or are buggy. Use whichever one works best for you, and choose so at your own risk.</div><br>
The following instructions are for psp2psarc, the official Sony-developed archiving tool. Open-source alternatives may work differently.
The following instructions are for psp2psarc, the official Sony-developed archiving tool. Open-source alternatives may work differently.
For Windows (Powershell):
```
./psp2psarc.exe extract data.psarc
```
For Unix family systems:
```
wine psp2psarc.exe extract data.psarc
```
Use the -y flag to overwrite existing files from data.psarc when extracting patches and DLC:
```
./psp2psarc.exe extract -y data2.psarc
wine psp2psarc.exe extract -y dlc1.psarc
```
The above commands will extract to the current working directory. All of the WipEout assets are stored in a "data" folder inside of data.psarc and not the archive root, so this should all automatically end up in a data/ folder for you.