GHMetalRecomp v0.4.1-beta.1

Beta 1 of 0.4.1: your DLC folder, read where it is

Warning

This is a test version, before 0.4.1. The launcher's Updates page does not offer it: download it from here. When 0.4.1 comes out, Updates will offer it to you.

Important

You need your own copy of the game: the USA / Europe 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: the Death Magnetic album alone takes 1.4 GB, and 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 III, World Tour, Guitar Hero 5...), 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.
• Packages made for another game come turned off. This game only reads Metallica's Death Magnetic album (the package made for Guitar Hero III); any other package adds nothing here, so it is off, with a note saying so. 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.

Fixed

• "Disc Read Error" a few seconds after starting, with many DLC packages installed. Found in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock with a collection of 190 packages: while the game checked your packages one by one, the recompilation's system layer sometimes closed one of the game's own files that it was still reading. Every game used that path, this one too.

Known issues

• Singing is experimental: if the pitch line jumps around, lower the microphone's Gain in the launcher; if the game does not hear you, raise it.
• Drums and AMD graphics cards have not been tested yet.
• Above 60 FPS and the keyboard are experimental.
• The full list is in the README.

How to install

• Over your install: extract the zip (GHMetalRecomp-v0.4.1-beta.1-win64.zip) into your install folder, replacing the files. Your profile, saves, settings and installed DLC stay.
• New install: download the installer (GHMetalRecomp-v0.4.1-beta.1-setup.exe), or the zip and extract it into a folder of your own. 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.