GH5Recomp v0.2.1-beta.2

Beta 2 of 0.2.1: your DLC folder, read where it is, and no more "A content package appears damaged"

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.2.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.2.1 comes out, Updates will offer it to you.

Important

You need your own copy of the game: the Xbox 360 disc, as an ISO. This release contains none of the game's files.

New

• Your DLC folder. In the launcher's DLC tab, choose the folder where you keep your Xbox 360 packages (LIVE, PIRS or CON files, in it or its subfolders), with as many games' DLC as you like. The game now reads the packages from there: nothing is copied anymore. Before, the launcher extracted a copy of every package for each game, so the same DLC took two or three times the space with several Guitar Heroes installed. You can point the other ElGus Recomps launchers at the same folder, and your files are never modified or deleted, so they still work on a real Xbox 360. The folder is checked every time you open the launcher, so new DLC you add shows up on its own.
• The DLC list is grouped by game (Guitar Hero 5, World Tour, Warriors of Rock...), each group folding open or shut, with how many are on and a switch for the whole group. Every package has its own switch too.

Fixed

• "A content package appears damaged or unreadable. You will not be able to use or access any downloadable content." It showed up when a package made for another Guitar Hero was installed: Guitar Hero 5 cannot read those, and then it turns off all of your DLC. Now the launcher checks every package the way the game does, and the ones made for another game come turned off (with a note saying what would happen with one on). You can still turn one on yourself.

Already have DLC installed?

It keeps working, you don't need to do anything: it shows up as Installed copies in the DLC tab. If your DLC folder has the same packages, the launcher tells you how much space those installed copies take, and Remove copies deletes them (it asks first, and never touches your DLC folder); the game then reads the packages from your folder.

Also in this beta: the fix from beta 1 for "Disc Read Error" with many DLC packages.

Known issues

• Only Guitar Hero 5's own downloadable content adds songs.
• Drums and singing have not been tested in this game yet.
• AMD graphics cards have only been checked in a simulation.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

• Over your install: extract the zip (GH5Recomp-v0.2.1-beta.2-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and installed DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GH5Recomp-v0.2.1-beta.2-setup.exe), or the zip and extract it into a folder you can write to (not Program Files). The first start asks for your ISO.

Something wrong? Tell us on Discord or in issues, with the latest files in the game's logs folder.