Guide: How to unpack ITG ps2 disk

Cat's Eye · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much Kalek!

I have acouple of questions.

Is group sorting supported? (1st mix, 2nd mix etc)

Also, do themes work? If so, is there a guide anywhere on how to change the theme?

Thanks in advanced
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Kalek · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:20 am Post subject:

http://stepmania.naota3k.com/index.php?dir=Team%20Opengroove%20Stuff/Tools%20and%20Docs/&file=OG_ITG1PS2_Hacks_V2_aka_GroupSort_and_TopGradeFix.rar use that for group sorting

Switching themes is possible, but it takes a lot of time to convert for ITG use (mostly just resizing graphics) and even more time to pack it if you want it to run well off of a DVD. And if its a theme unsupported by the ITGPS2 build of StepMania, it becomes even harder to do it because you have to port it to the correct build before doing the resizing and packing.

Cat's Eye · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject:

^Thank you for that, but i'm totally lost, what do i do with those files?

Also, are courses enabled?
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OLC.Kanji666 · Trick Member Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Location: My mind.

I have a DVD+R with the ISO burned on with Alcohol 120%.

I boot up swap magic, i swap in the DVD with the slide card.

I press X.

The screen flashes red, then goes black.

A few seconds later, it goes to the screen where you can browse your memory card....

What's up?
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Ghettobarney · Trick Member Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Location: Failing Pandy

Bump for great justice.

So if I unpack ITG PC, I ccould just transfer everything to SM right? SM is way more costumizable, so I would prefer that.

Also, I haven't tried yet, so does this work with Vista?
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Ghettobarney · Trick Member Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Location: Failing Pandy

Well I was mostly just talking about the songs. When I tried unpacking the .pck files, it just gave me an error saying that the file name was too long or something like that. This was under Vista. Any help?
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neoMAXCML · Trick Member Joined: 21 Feb 2007

Don't think the tools support Vista.

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Guess I gotta find someone with XP, though just about everyone I know has Vista... :/ Oh well.
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Mateui · Trick Member Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Nova Scotia

After 2 attempts I was finally able to get custom songs on ITGPS2. Let me tell you, the step by step guides weren't very userfriendly and eventually I was left to guess at missing instructions, but on the third attempt I succeeded.

I don't know if there's a need for it (this thread is very old after all and most people who were interested in adding their songs to ITG have probably already done so), but if someone would like I wouldn't mind rewriting the instructions I found to make them more clearcut and n00b-friendly.

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Mateui · Trick Member Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Nova Scotia

Alright, hopefully this will help clear up some things:

Before You Begin:
- Make sure that your PS2 is capable of playing burned DVDs
- Make sure that your computer has a DVD drive & DVD burner
- Download the following programs:

You can download a pack of these tools at the following site: http://stepmaniaug.com/Documents/download_itg.html. Simply scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see the download link.

Ripping Your ITG PS2 Disc:
- Insert your ITG PS2 disc into your DVD drive
- Go into My Computer and right-click on your DVD drive and select explore so that you can see the files on the ITG disc
- Highlight all the items on the disc (ctrl+a) and copy them (ctrl+c)
- Create a folder on your computer somewhere where you will house these files. I use C:\CustomITG
- Paste the files into your newly made folder (ctrl+v)
- Go into the newly pasted PCKS folder and delete the PCK.IDX file
OPTIONAL STEP:
- If you do NOT want to include the ITG1 songs on your disc, go into the PCKS folder and delete all the files that start with the letter "D" except for DA0ADE3A.PCK which you need to keep.

Preparing Your Songs:
The following process needs to be followed with every single song you want to add to your disc.

- Convert the music file to a 48 KHz OGG vorbis file (.ogg)

dbPowerAmp Music Converter

http://www.download3k.com/DownloadLink1-dBpowerAMP-Music-Converter.html

(When you listen to the converted .ogg song afterwards, it shouldn't sound chipmunky or anything. It should be similar-sounding to the original. Therefore, do not use Audacity to convert to 48 KHz because it will change how the music sounds.)

- Convert all banner images to .PNG with any sort of image-editing program, and make sure that they are 256x80 pixels in size
- Convert all background images to .PNG, and make sure that they are 320x240 pixels in size
- Make sure that you are using .SM instead of .DWI. (If you do have a .DWI file that you want to use, simply open up that file in Stepmania, go into edit mode to edit it and save the file. Stepmania will automatically save it as a .SM file. Afterwards you can just keep the .SM file and delete the .DWI file.)

- In the end, each song should have its own folder and inside that folder there need to be four files:

(NOTE: Lyrics files - .LRC, WILL work on ITGPS2, so if any songs have them feel free to keep that file in the song's folder)

- Before proceeding open up each .SM file with Notepad and make sure that it points to the appropriate banner, background, and song file extensions. For example, if you converted Song.mp3 to Song.ogg, and open up its corresponding .SM file, change Song.mp3 to Song.ogg. The same thing goes for banners and backgrounds. Make sure the extensions are changed to .png). Save and close Notepad.

Packing your ITG-Ready Songs
- Put all your song files into C:\Songs\In the Groove 2
- So, inside the "In the Groove 2" folder every song will have its own folder, and inside those individual folders will be those 4 files (song, .sm, banner and background image) that we just talked about.
- Open up the PCKMagic Packer program.
- Click on "Browse for Source File Folder" and choose C:\, then finally Songs. Click ok. If you did that right you should see all the files listed in the PCK Packer program as "C:\Songs\In The Groove 2\*".
- Now, choose "Datafile" and check "Generate Cache"
- In the "PCK Comment" field put "default test" (without the quotation marks of course)

- Now, click on "Choose Filename & Save" and choose C:/CustomITG/PCKS (that is, inside the PCKS folder with all the other .pck files you ripped originally). Do NOT change the filename that the program automatically generates for you.

Making the .IDX file
- Open up PCKMagic IDX Wrapper program.
- Click on "Browse for PCK file folder" and navigate to the folder with all of your PCKs in it. (This is C/CustomITG/PCKS)
- Click on "Generate IDX file" and it will create a PCK.IDX for you.

Compiling your ISO
- Open Sony CD/DVD Generator. Select "Create New Project" and "DVD ROM Master Disc" (which is the same as Single Layer DVD). Drag the files from the folder C:/ITGCustom into the CD/DVD Generator in THIS EXACT ORDER:

1. IOPRP300.IMG
2. PCKS folder
3. SLUS 211.77
4. SYSTEM.CNF
5. BOOT.PAK

Now hit the Volume tab and enter the following details EXACTLY AS SHOWN:

Disc Name: SLUS 21177
Producer Name: PLAYSTATION
Copyright Holder: ROXOR GAMES
License Area: America
Volume: IN_THE_GROOVE
Volume Set: 1
Publisher: REDOCTANE
Data Preparer: GLENN MAYNARD

-Then, finally hit File > Export IML File.

(If you receive an error stating that you haven't reached the minimum sector size, then you'll need to add a single large file (400mb or above) by dragging it and dropping it into the program much like how you've added the other ITG files. It should show up below BOOT.pak. Any large file will do - we just need it to take up some space on the DVD. If you've got a movie file such as a .avi or .mpg those are usually large enough.)

- Choose to name the IML file as "ITG" (without the quotations) and export it anywhere you like, such as the desktop.

Converting the IML to ISO:
- Open up IML2ISO.
- Click on the "..." button and select your newly made .iml file
- Hit "Start" to convert the file to an ISO. When the program is finished you should find a "ITG.iso" file in the same location as your "ITG.iml" file

Burning the ISO to a DVD:
- Use any sort of burning program to burn the .ISO that you just generated.
- If you happen to use DVD Decrypter, open it up and select Mode>ISO>Write
- Click on the folder icon and select the .ISO file
- Near the bottom right of the program make sure that your Write Speed is set to 4x. (Speeds higher than this sometimes causes discs not to be read by the PS2, so that's why we're sticking to 4x)
- Make sure that you have a blank DVD-R inside your DVD drive
- Click on the start button in the lower left side of the program

- Now, wait for a few minutes (this process usually takes 15-20 minutes) and when the burning is finished you're all done
- Put the disc in your PS2 and play! (If you're using SwapMagic make sure to boot your swap disc first.)

I hope that this guide helped out. Let me know if you need anything clarified.

DDRichard · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:23 pm Post subject:

I installed Pcksuite, but when i click on PCKmagic Packer it says "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix the problem". When i reinstall the program, it does the same thing. Is there another way for me to pack the pck files?

jeff. · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Thank you for that very nice and clear tutorial. Might give this another shot this week.
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MasterWok · Trick Member Joined: 27 Dec 2006 Location: NJ/SC

I followed ur instructions exactly (twice) with two different dvd-r's, and my playstation just says "please insert a ps or ps2 format disk" - I used sm 3.9 files the second time

What do you think could be wrong?

Mateui · Trick Member Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Nova Scotia

leecyrille · Basic Member Joined: 25 Jun 2008

amazing tutorial!!!! I love you so much!!! this is going to keep me busy forever! i got the good songs from ddr, and about 100 other stepmania songs onto a disc. and just in case anyone else was wondering, you can just not have any pictures so you dont have to convert them (just leave the .ogg and .sm file in there and thats it, leaving others will crash it) and it will just have an in the groove default picture. if you just leave the menu pictures in unsized it seems to work ok but it lags. the un sized background images will completely freeze the game i found. I used an alredey hacked copy of ITG and ITG2 (I dont have an unhacked copy) and tried just not deleting any of the files so i would have the ITG songs as well, but when i followed your instructions i had the songs i added but none of the ones that were alredey on there. anyone know how to get the originals on there too? or any info on grouping in a stright forward explaination with dead links? thank you very much in advance.

leecyrille · Basic Member Joined: 25 Jun 2008