[How-To] Playing Customs on PS3
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OK, I more confused now. The “Merged Songs” folder has only the “songs.dta” file I created in it.
When I convert my files from the “CONs” folder, using the “PS3 Converter” button, it puts my files in the “All Songs” folder.
What step am I missing?
OK, I more confused now. The “Merged Songs” folder has only the “songs.dta” file I created in it.
When I convert my files from the “CONs” folder, using the “PS3 Converter” button, it puts my files in the “All Songs” folder.
What step am I missing?
Once you have a songs.dta file inder the Merged Songs folder AND you enable “Merge songs while converting”, the individual folders for all songs being converted should end up in the Merged Songs folder.
If for some reason they still go to All Songs folder, you can still copy these individual folders to your PS3, they are identical.
If for some reason they still go to All Songs folder, you can still copy these individual folders to your PS3, they are identical.
They are not, the dta files aren’t merged in the “All Songs” folder. They each have their own separated dta file, so if you do that, you will have to merge the dta files manually.
They are not, the dta files aren’t merged in the “All Songs” folder. They each have their own separated dta file, so if you do that, you will have to merge the dta files manually.
I just meant the songs folders within, and all their files. If for some reason he gets the full songs.dta but not the folders to Merged Songs, he could still use the folders from All Songs, even though it’s annoying to copy them one by one since they are the second-level folders.
I just meant the songs folders within, and all their files. If for some reason he gets the full songs.dta but not the folders to Merged Songs, he could still use the folders from All Songs, even though it’s annoying to copy them one by one since they are the second-level folders.
That’s not something that happens, unless there was a serious bug in a version of C3 CON Tools I’ve never used. The only thing that causes songs to be converted to that folder is not checking the checkbox for merging songs.
Step 1: Delete all of the converted files you now have in “All songs”.
Step 2: Put songs.dta in “Merged Songs” folder.
Step 3: Put all of the xBox song files into the “Songs to Merge” folder.
Step 4: Open converter, make it point to “Songs to Merge” for where to get the songs from.This is how I went about it, and at this point “Merge Songs” was no longer greyed out for me. Is this how you have done it?
The thing that the merging song option needs to not be greyed out is the dta file.
I’m not really active in the RB scene anymore, but it would be nice if the next C3 CON Tools update would place an empty songs.dta file in that folder in the event that there is none instead of greying out that option and having to do it manually. This behavior is more confusing than anything for new commers.
Before this, I had 351 songs.
I copied the 2,016 folders and songs.dta file (now 4,925 K:cool: and put them in the “/dev_hdd0/game/BLUS30463/USRDIR/HMX0756/songs” folder on my PS3.
I rebooted and loaded the game, still 351 songs only now it gets stuck here there https://photos.app.goo.gl/URJZRvBzQjTrrXD49
Interesting… In my case that kind of loading message always says loading 4/4, no matter how many customs are there. I thought it says the number of folders being scanned, not the number of songs.
Anyway, if it gets stuck while loading, you probably have an error in songs.dta, but it’s not going to be pretty to find out among 2000 songs. Although the fact that it still says 351 might suggest the error is where the 352th custom begins in the dta. Try to see if there is some missing opening bracket at that point.
The most efficient way to find the problematic song(s) is the half method. Try one half of your dta file, if it works, you know that the problem is in the other half, so try the half of that other half and repeat the process untill the problematic dta file is small enough to figure out the problem.
I never advice to add hundreads (or thousands) of songs at once, because if there is a problem of that sort, it is very time consuming to find it.
@Shroud, I had purchased a lot of DLC back in the day (a lot of which doesn’t work now unfortunately) so maybe that’s why the number is so high.
!Alternity, so just merge less songs and give it a whirl? I guess I wasn’t sure if the load count would change.
Also, the old video for ConTools mentioned making packs to assist with loading? Is that a thing still? Once the songs are working, I have a few other questions.
Yeah, I would personally do a max of 50, that is manageable if there’s an issue.
The number at the top is the number of dta files you have, so that number will not grow with the number of customs because they are all merged into the same pack, it will grow if you add more DLC and whatnot, pro guitar upgrades will also make this number grow because they use their own dta files. When it freezes like that it is because the current dta file it’s reading has an issue of some sort.
The packs mention is only for xbox, on PS3 we already merge all of our customs in one single pack (specifically the “RB2 Free Pack 01”), so even if you have 3000 custom songs, it will load one dta file for them.
OK, so I put 805 on there this time (806 files/folders including songs.dta), deleted everything in the songs folder on the PS3, copied over the new data just to be safe, the system loads just fine and takes me to the song list, but it does not show any of my new songs. Example, it shows only a handful of NIN songs, when I added about 42. It doesn’t look like it loaded any new songs.
This could also be a dta file problem. Whenever RB3 loads a dta file, if there’s a problem with any entry in the file it will stop loading that file at the last good entry in reading order (or freeze, depending on the issue, not sure what causes which).
If you want to get your hands dirty, you can open a dta file with a text editor and search for the issue, it could be as simple as a missing bracket, so it’s really not easy to eyeball it.
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