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A few days ago I stumbled upon an issue with the C3 CON Tools PS3 Converter…

 

When I use the functionality for encrypting a replacement MIDI file, the tool automatically renames the file, apparently trimming it of certain characters such as “-” (the minus sign).

 

Now this is a problem, because you CANNOT rename the MIDI file after encrypting it or the game will fail to load it. I do not know how encryption works, but this sounds like the name of the file is used by the encryption algorithm. I suppose that the PS3 Converter first trims the name, and then encrypts the file, otherwise the result would not load.

 

There are however many customs with the character “-” included in the name, and they work fine in PS3, so I don’t know why the PS3 Converter removes this character. So the problem is that if I ever want to modify one of these custom’s MIDI file, or replace it with a new version, I cannot do it.

 

I think a possible workaround would be to rename everything (folder, mogg, milo, png, as well as data inside songs.dta) to match the new name without “-” as forced by the reencryption.

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