hmxmilohax/dance-central-1-deluxe

QoL enhancements and additions to Dance Central 1

Dance Central 1 Deluxe

Introduction

Dance Central 1 Deluxe is a Quality-of-Life Improvement Mod by MiloHax

This repo contains everything you need to build Dance Central 1 Deluxe for Xbox 360.

Table of Contents

• Dance Central Deluxe
• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• Features
  • Quality of Life
  • Additional Modifications
• Prerequisites
• Setup
  • Repo Setup
• Installing
  • Xbox 360 Hardware
  • Xenia Emulator (DEV/TESTING ONLY)
• DLC
  • Installing DLC on Xenia
• Troubleshooting
  • Repo Troubleshooting
  • Xbox 360 Troubleshooting
  • Xenia Troubleshooting
• Dependencies

Features

Quality of Life

• Faster start time via scripting
• All difficulties, venues, and characters unlocked by default
• New menu, Deluxe Settings, in game for additional modifications
• No Kinect check for Xenia dev/testing

Additional Modifications

• Hue-shifting menu

Prerequisites

You will need...

• A vanilla copy of Dance Central for Xbox 360 that you can extract onto your PC
• For Console: A modded/hacked Xbox 360 and a way to transfer files to it, we recommend using FTP
• For Emulator (DEV/TESTING ONLY): A mid-to-high-end PC capable of running Xenia

Setup

Repo Setup

Setting up the Dance Central Deluxe repo for the first time is meant to be as easy as possible. As well, it is designed to allow you to automatically receive updates as the repo is updated.

First, go to the Releases of this repo.

Before you do anything else, you'll need to install Git for Windows, Dot Net 6.0 Runtime, and Python (version 3.9 or later). These are ALL required in order to properly build Dance Central Deluxe.

Install all three of these with their default options..

Next, download _init_repo.bat if you're on Windows or _init_repo.sh if you're on Linux.

Now, make a new empty folder, put _init_repo in the folder, and run it. This will pull the repo down for you and make sure you're completely up to date. This will take some time.

The folder should look like this once it's done:

The Dance Central Deluxe repo is now set up! You are ready to build and install install it for your platform of choice:

• Xbox 360 Hardware
• Xenia Emulator (DEV/TESTING ONLY)

If you were not able to set up the repo properly, refer to the Troubleshooting section.

Installing

Make sure you follow Setup first!

Xbox 360 Hardware

NOTE: You WILL need a HACKED/MODDED (RGH or JTAG) Xbox 360 in order to play this mod on console. We hope this is clear.

First, dump or extract your Dance Central game disc to a place where Aurora can see it.

Then, navigate to user_scripts and run build_xbox.py.

After that, copy the contents of \_build\ to the location you extracted your disc to. Select Yes to overwrite the files.

If you're installing Dance Central Deluxe for the first time, it is recommended that you rename the vanilla default.xex to default_vanilla.xex for safety.

Make sure you clear your system cache, navigate to System Settings > Storage and press Y to clear the system cache.

And finally, disable updates for Dance Central in Aurora. Dance Central Deluxe rolls TU2 into its base installation.

Dance Central Deluxe should now be installed! Head down to DLC for additional songs.

If you're having issues, refer to the Troubleshooting section and find your issue.

To update Dance Central Deluxe, repeat the above steps (minus installing the vanilla game). You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

Xenia Emulator

WARNING: XENIA DOES NOT HAVE KINECT SUPPORT!!! DANCE CENTRAL IS UNPLAYABLE ON XENIA AND IS ONLY USED FOR DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING PURPOSES!!!

First, extract your vanilla Dance Central game disc and copy ONLY the contents of the gen folder to \_build\gen\.

Navigate to _xenia and map your controller with x360ce. If it asks you to create xinput1_3.dll, create it and rename it to xinput1_4.dll.

Then, navigate to user_scripts and run build_xenia.py to automatically update, build, and run Dance Central Deluxe. You need to run this script every time you want to play. run_xenia.py, however, will not automatically build and update the game and will only run it.

Dance Central Deluxe should now be installed! Head down to DLC for additional songs.

If you're having issues, refer to the Troubleshooting section and find your issue.

DLC

You can find every DLC for all Dance Central titles in this Drive.

Installing DLC on Xenia

Download a DLC pack of your choice and open Xenia. Navigate to File > Install Content, and select your DLC pack(s) of choice. You can select more than one at a time.

Troubleshooting

If you're having issues with Dance Central Deluxe, here's where you can look for common issues and try to solve yours.

Below every issue are most of the possible reasons they may be happening and how you can fix them.

Repo Troubleshooting

The .bat/.py files open and immediately close!

• You don't have all the required dependencies installed.
  • Head back to Repo Setup and make sure you followed the directions properly.

Xbox 360 Troubleshooting

The game doesn't get past the splash screens!

• Make sure you copy the ENTIRE contents of \_build\ to where your vanilla copy of Dance Central lives.

Xenia Troubleshooting

My game opens to a black screen!

• You don't have a vanilla copy of Dance Central installed.

  • Extract your disc and extract ONLY the contents of the gen folder to \_build\gen\.

• Dance Central Deluxe did not build properly.

  • Make sure you have Dot Net 6.0 Runtime installed.

The game doesn't get past the splash screens!

• You are not supposed to replace default.xex in \_build\, only the contents of the gen folder.
  • Navigate to user_scripts and run git_reset.py to rebase your repo.

My controller isn't working even though I have x360ce set up!

• Navigate to _xenia and rename xinput1_3.dll to xinput1_4.dll.
• Every time you launch Dance Central Deluxe, disconnect your controller from your PC and plug it back in. (This is an issue that only happens with Dance Central)

The framerate is awful (below 60)!

• Your PC is most likely not capable of running Xenia and we haven't found any settings to help optimize it.

How do I use my Kinect?

• Play on hardware.

Dependencies

Git for Windows - CLI application to allow auto updating Deluxe repo files

Dot Net 6.0 Runtime - Needed to run ArkHelper

Python - For user script functionality (NOTE: 3.9 or newer is highly recommended!)

Mackiloha - ArkHelper for building Deluxe

dtab - For serializing .dtb script files