SnakeBite is a mod manager/launcher for Metal Gear Solid V (PC/Steam).
Before running makebite make sure the 00.dat and 01.dat in MGSV_TPP\master\0 are unmodified. Use the validate game cache option via steam if nessesary.
When you first run the application, you will be greeted by the setup wizard. This will walk you through the steps required to run SnakeBite.
During the setup process you will be prompted to
- Select your MGSV installation directory
- Create a backup of the game data
- Modify game data to prepare for modding
Some of the game data needs to be modified to allow for easier installation of mods. During setup, any MGSV system data contained in 00.dat will be moved into 01.dat. Afterwards, any files installed by SnakeBite can be installed into 00.dat with minimal risk of conflicting with the game files.
Mods can be installed and uninstalled by selecting MODS from the main window. Additionally, you can temporarily disable/enable all mods by clicking the toggle switch next to MODS.
If the mod you wish to install is available as a .MGSV file, it is the recommended way to install mods using SnakeBite. If not, SnakeBite provides basic functionality to install unsupported mods.
Click "Install .MGSV" from the mod manager window and select the mod you wish to install.
A 'Mod Preset' is a collection of mods which can be saved and loaded with SnakeBite. Saving a Preset will pack your current modded game data into a .MGSVPreset file. Loading a Preset will simply replace your game data with the files stored in the .MGSVPreset file. Presets are a fast and simple method of organizing your favorite mods or trying new mod combinations. You can also utilize Presets as restore checkpoints if SnakeBite encounters a serious error or your game data becomes corrupted.
By default, SnakeBite creates 'RevertChanges.MGSVPreset' before a mod installation/uninstallation, so you can easily undo an action if it caused a critical error. However, saving a large number of mods needs a bit of time and storage space, so you can choose to skip this option by unchecking the 'Save RevertChanges.MGSVPreset' checkbox in the Settings menu. RevertChanges.MGSVPreset is saved to your Game Directory.
For those with issues with Snakebite try:
Do not use the Install .ZIP option, instead extract the mods .mgsv file that's in the mods .zip and use Install .MGSV
Installing Microsoft .Net 4.6.1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49981
If you have a warning about permissions try right clicking Snakebites shortcut and choosing Run as administrator Or try reinstalling Snakebite to a different folder than it's default.
When using the revalidate option it will likely pop up the steam process in the background, make sure you wait till it's finished.
To manually revalidate the files through steam: Right click on Metal Gear Solid V in Steam Choose properties from the right click menu Click the Local Files tab Click Verify Integrity of Game Cache. Wait till it says it's complete.
If you get "The selected mod conflicts with existing MGSV system files" warning then snakebite has likely messed up it's data xml and added mod files to it's default files list. The only solution is to hit Restore Original Game Files in the snakebite settings. Verify MGSVs game cache (through steam, not snakebite) to make sure everything is default and try again. While the disable compatability check setting will bypass this, it is likely to cause problems with the game.
Snakebite prints information to Log.txt in its install folder. Check this before you close snakebite (since it's cleared on next snakebite start) to see if there's any error messages.
Use MakeBite (included) to create .MGSV mod files compatible with SnakeBite
For information regarding using makebite to create mod files, please see here: https://github.com/topher-au/SnakeBite/wiki/Using-MakeBite
In addition to this, files inside a folder named GameDir will be installed to the MGS_TPP folder.
Makebite just takes the input path (that you'd normally browse to) and outputs mod.mgsv there. It will fill the info from a metadata.xml in the input folder (previously generated by the usual makebite ui). Also you can throw a readme.txt in the input folder and it will overwrite the metadata description.
Snakebites args:
-completeuninstall (as the only arg) Same as settings > Restore original game files button.
-i <path to .mgsv file> install
-u uninstall an installed mod (name matching the Name field in makebite/metadata.xml/the snakebite installed mods list.
-c bypass conflict checks, I think necessary because makebite doesn't use the snakebite version value from metadata.xml when building from command line.
-x close snakebite when done
-d resets snakebites dat hash, snakebite uses this to detect if the 00.dat has changed, and usually throws up ui saying it's doing so, this option just silently does it. this was to smooth over my 'build tool' process - which basically just copies over stuff from my project folder then runs makebite/snakebite by command line - rather than wait for uninstall of previous version it copies over a 'snakebite clean' 00.dat/ie the 2kb snakebite installed but nothing else 00.dat, then runs snakebite with -i -d -c -x
Please submit a bug report to GitHub with as much detail as possible. Please include log.txt, which is accessed by double clicking the version in the main window, or found in your SnakeBite install directory (default %LocalAppData%\SnakeBite). Warning: the logfile is reset every time you launch SnakeBite so please save it immediately after the application crashes.