Preparing for modding

In this tutorial you will make the necessary preparations to start modding.

Steps

1. First of all you need to get access to XStoryPlayer 3 (or higher). More information on that can be found here.
2. It is assumed that you are familiar with playing XStoryPlayer and you know what e.g. the 'Story menu' and 'Fastsex menu' are.
3. After installing XStoryPlayer you will find (among others) the following files in the install directory:
   • settings.ini
   • filemaker/
   • pack/
   • testini/
   • save/
4. Make a backup copy of your save directory and then delete your save files.
   This is very important because the save files will also contain code and it can create issues when doing the modding tutorials.
   Also you will be using unencrypted save files from now on, so your current save files cannot be used.
5. Open settings.ini and make the following changes:

   start_mode  = MAIN;    // Start in menu
   debug_sys   = BASIC;   // Use basic debugging
   debug_brain = ENABLED; // Trace brain events to trace.txt
   save_key    = "";      // Do not encrypt save files

6. Now you are ready to start unpacking/packing packs