Guide: How to unpack ITG ps2 disk

[kholdfuzion]

for those that prefer a cmd line app, here ya go

http://rapidshare.de/files/18198329/PCK_v2_Extractor.exe.html

just drag and drop the v2 PCK on it to extract to C:\Tmp\Extracted\

[zombiejesus9001]

anyone know how to get it to read mp3s and not oggs? cause i really dont feel like converting all my mix's "a few give errors when converting as well"

[Ugge]

[chesster]

has anyone gotten the theme to work with stepmania 4.0? or does it just crash when u get to teh songwheel?

[rrwoods]

I tried the no-PCK hack. The game started beautifully, but no key presses registered. When I checked Keymaps.ini, none of the lines had keys associated with them (i.e., all the lines ended in '='). Any ideas?

[Ugge]

I fixed that by changing the line LastSeenInputDevices to (in Preferences.ini):
LastSeenInputDevices=X11,joystick

Itg now detects something is wrong and automaps your keyboard. (Maybe joystick too, dunno)

[rrwoods]

OK, tried that; when it started, it informed me that it was auto-unmapping my joystick, but nothing else. No changes from previous -- HOWEVER, I was wrong before.

It was (and is) detecting some key presses. The arrow keys will cycle through the various intro thingies (instructions, roxor logo, etc), as well as enter the tutorial mode seemingly randomly. Holding the F3 key brings up an options menu with:

F6 in gameplay - AutoSync - off
F7 in gameplay - Assist Tick - off
Key 1 - Rendering Stats - off
Key 2 - Vsync - on
Key 3 - Multitexture - on
up - Volume up (100%)
down - Volume down
Uptime - (counts seemingly accurately)

EDIT: The 8-step instructions say to name the index file "pcks.idx", where ITG PC installs a file named "pck.idx". Also related to the index is that beta2 doesn't install one at all. Are you using beta2 or beta1?

Of note, I did successfully put another song in the Songs subfolder of the folder I pointed "AdditionalFolders" to. Specifically, it's in Songs/Originals - rrwoods/songname. The reason I know it works is that when I use the arrow keys to cycle through the various screens (as described above), sometimes the "demonstration" that gets played is the song I added, with the correct Easy steps.

EDIT 2: Trying with beta2 anyway.

[edgar131]

Update on Group Sort: Well I didn't realize, because im retarded, that there is no real way to get there to be the sub folder sorts as its not innate to the ITG theme (ie. if you do a expertmetersort it doesn't split it up into 9, 10, 11 etc it just lists em in order unlike on the arcade machine). DESPITE that, I have managed to get it to default to group sort, so each group is sorted seperately, alphabetically but on the same wheel. You can get them all to be different colors by changing the metrics file in ps2itg-reduced very easily. I also can't get Group to show up on the sort select wheel, so if you change the sort, you can't go back to the group sort. That's about the best I have going right now. If you have any information that you think can help or want to know how to do it I'd rather explain on IM (edgar131) or something.

[Synaesthesia]

[zombiejesus9001]

acutally i got it to sort by group u have to enable it in the scripts known as OptionsMenu.lua

[rrwoods]

Come to think of it, why try to run the demo with no PCKs? Wouldn't it be easier to try a repack, or is pck.idx that hard to figure out? (Note that I haven't tried, so I wouldn't know.)

EDIT: Disregard. It's just easier without them anyway.

[edgar131]

[zombiejesus9001]

fine if someone knows how to fix the yellow song and banner problems and the long loading time after finishing a game of 3 songs with almost 10 mix's in the songer folder


open up optionsmenu.lua in the themes itg1-reduced folder and find and replace with this

function OptionsRowSort()
local Sorts =
{

"Group",
"Preferred",
"Title",
"BPM",
"Popularity",
"TopGrades",
"Artist",
"EasyMeter",
"MediumMeter",
"HardMeter",
"ChallengeMeter",
}

[edgar131]

I did that, but it still doesn't show up on the sort wheel. It also doesn't cause there to be subfolders (ie. I choose In The Groove 1 and then only the ITG1 songs are listed).

edit: if yours does do the above, please upload the script somewhere.
edit2: im talking about the PS2 version not the PC version
final edit: Stop posting crap about the PC version in here...this thread is about the PS2 version. There is a thread on the second page that is about the PC version, for anyone talking about the PC version, please go there.

[Rodent]

[Rodent]

For those who want to help with LUA:
http://www.egoshare.com/?e2a6d3a6a28ea55e8dfafa853313779d

[edgar131]

Fine I'll tell u my secret :-p. Unpack the ITG PC Demo. The lua script in the themes there is almost identical to the one on the ps2 game, ive replaced the one on the ps2 game with the one from the demo with modifications and it works. I can only get the default sort to be group though, and it still doesn't split with subfolders, its just everything is on the wheel by group in alphabetical order seamlessly.

Rodent: He got that piece of code from the PC versions LUA script because he thought i was talking about the PC version.

[zombiejesus9001]

then its a static.ini problem then if u can get it to be sort by group in abc order with no folders look for this in static.ini called wheelsections=0 make it 1

[Ugge]

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path "C:\Program\In The Groove Demo\pcks\DF968706.PCK".

Synaesthesia: This error message means you got the wrong path.... I can see from the other errors you posted its actually supposed to be: "C:\Program Files\In The Groove Demo\pcks\DF968706.PCK"
Change that line in the extractor and it should work.

[Synaesthesia]

Wow, I'm amazing at failing to read entire words. Thanks for pointing that out. b(^_^)b
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