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Adding Randomized Battle Tracks to Persona 5 (PS3)

If you haven’t yet familiarized yourself with modding Persona 5, check out this guide first! This is a more advanced follow-up to the EBOOT patching and BGM editing guides, so read those first as well.

Copying and Renaming ACB/AWB

You may have noticed that the DLC tracks that play when the protagonist is wearing a DLC outfit are not in bgm.awb, but each have their own ACB/AWB pair. Each includes 2 ADX tracks, a battle theme and a victory theme. Maybe you also noticed that patch.yml has a Randomized Battle music patch, which shuffles all of the DLC tracks (in addition to the main battle theme) and randomly picks one at the start of each encounter.
You can customize this even further by adding your own music tracks to the game, following the same format as the DLC tracks.

You can theoretically add an infinite number of custom tracks by copying, renaming and editing the contents of each ACB/AWB pair.

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Persona 5 (PS3) – EBOOT Patching

If you’re modding Persona 5 on a console with custom firmware (rather than using the RPCS3 emulator), there are extra steps required to get patch.yml modifications working. This includes mod.cpk support, 60 FPS, intro skipping, file access logging, randomized music, hiding UI elements and more.
TGEnigma has created RPCS3PatchEboot, a program that can apply these patches to your game’s EBOOT.BIN file.

The EBOOT.BIN is different between regions, as well as between physical and digital releases of the game, so unless you have the European PSN version, you’ll have to patch your own EBOOT.

Following the instructions in the video, connect to FTP and get the EBOOT.BIN from the directory your game was installed in. Transfer it to your PC.
In order to decompress/decrypt and patch your game, you WILL need:

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Persona 5 RPCS3: Setup & Installing Mods

UPDATE 1/12/2021: This guide was originally written by Cryptoss, but has been updated by ShrineFox to prevent it from becoming obsolete.

RPCS3 Download & Setup

You can get the RPCS3 emulator from rpcs3.net. This guide is focused on how to install Persona 5 mods on PC.
See this guide for setup on a CFW PS3 console, or this guide for modding Persona 3/4 on PCSX2.

With RPCS3 installed, you also need to install any PS3 firmware via File > Install Firmware.

Then, also install Persona 5– sorry, we can’t help you locate that.
Installing a PKG isn’t enough, you also need a valid .RAP (license) file that goes in the RPCS3\dev_hdd0\home\00000001\exdata folder before you can boot the game.

Installing the Mod Loader patch

Download the patch.yml file from shrinefox.com/PatchCreator.
Follow the instructions at the top of the page to get the proper PPU hash!
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