Can someone help me make a moveset mod?

[neat kiln]

I want to make a moveset mod that expands Arsene's moveset, making him more usable ingame.

The thing is that I completely new to moveset modding, and I would like to have some assistance with making this mod, if anyone is willing to help.

I need help with making the moveset mod itself, as well as coming up with a moveset that's balanced and fair.

Thanks in advance!

Also, if I decide to post the mod online, I promise to credit everyone who helped, unless they prefer to stay anonymous.

Another thing, I have a fanmade moveset list attached to this post below. It is, however, a concept and not the final moveset lineup.

[dull crystal]

You see this is pretty simple when you understand it

in fact I can show you rught now

Just let me check if I have the right table

[neat kiln]

Aight, thanks!

[dull crystal]

ok I got it

Do you need me to go through the 010 editor?

[neat kiln]

I'm currently busy right now, so I'll have to check back with you in a bit.

I'll be back real quick, tho.

[dull crystal]

Take your time

[neat kiln]

I should be back in a few seconds

[neat kiln]

I'm back

[dull crystal]

ok then

Do you know the basics of making a mod folder and/or 010 editor?

I can explain if you do not

[neat kiln]

Please do.

[dull crystal]

Ok

Well before anything we will need to create the folder with reloaded, unless you dont use it in which case I have no idea how to help for this step

So we need to go to manage mods and press new

then fill in the fields it asks

[neat kiln]

aight ill get to it in a bit

[dull crystal]

Once thats done we will need to create a few directories in that newly created folder (You can find it by pressing the Open folder button in the menu or for your game)

Assuming its just a skill set edit you want the directory we need to make is as follows (from that root folder we opened)
"P5REssentials\CPK\BASE.CPK\BATTLE\TABLE"

For this next little bit I can give you the edited file if you want but its always good to know where you get it and how you get it, as well as editing it

For getting the file we need to open out trusty CriFsLib.GUI and drag and drop our base.cpk file from our royal installation there

It's usually recommended to just type the path to a file but since we know what we are looking for (persona.tbl), we can just type that (probably)

All of this doesnt matter if you already have a dump of the game files but I do not for storage reasons

Now the fun part!

We will need to edit the file in the 010 editor using the oublic file templates you can find in the #1062319573472383006 Somewhere.
If you dont have the 010 editor installed you can just grab the trial version from its website here : https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/
The trial is fine, you can always rerun the setup exe for the trial aswell so dont' feel like you're on a hard time limit here

AFter this all we need to do is open the file in the editor run the template and be granted this glorious menu

Oh

uhh

[full fable]

Non-party member personas can only learn 16 skills total (and one is for the trait, so 15 really)

[dull crystal]

oh?

yru

true....

[neat kiln]

excuse me, but this tutorial seems like it's meant for PC...

I don't have P5R on steam, I only have the Switch version

[dull crystal]

oh

[full fable]

iirc table files are the same everywhere

[dull crystal]

unsure how to load switch mods but it cant be much different in practice

can we like

expand the party persona then?

[neat kiln]

I know how to load switch mods using romfs patching

[dull crystal]

we CAN set it for the protagonist afterall but idk how that changed thing

[neat kiln]

https://gamebanana.com/mods/445016

I was looking towards doing something like this mod

[full fable]

No you can't, protagonist uses "normal" personas, only other party members use personas from party personas segment

[dull crystal]

Yea h thers like uhhh

[neat kiln]

just with my own moveset

[dull crystal]

wait then whats the protag option for int he template? is it like

just there

[full fable]

You can use this as a base if you haven't/can't extract files from switch version, and edit it normally as was specified in whatever guides are above (with 010 editor template)

I have no idea how you then actually make switch load it, that's on you

[neat kiln]

I know how to load custom CPKs using LayeredFS patching, don't worry.

also thanks

[dull crystal]

wait then what does the above do?

dopes it code patch?

or is it like just

15 better skills

[dull crystal]

oh

[full fable]

Adding any more would require some exe editing, which is probably excessive here lol

[dull crystal]

I mean

[neat kiln]

I can manage with 15 max

[dull crystal]

we could do something funky

with like

fusiojns

have you fuse a max skills arsene to get another arsene with the next set or something

[neat kiln]

I just gotta find a way to make it balanced tho

[dull crystal]

I think thats about as close as we can get

using treasure demons

[full fable]

The original skill list doesn't look balanced to me, but oh well

[neat kiln]

also 010 editor is 60$

[dull crystal]

Persona 5 isnt balajnced

[full fable]

You can take inspiration from one of many, many mods that already did that lol

[dull crystal]

free trial exe :

[full fable]

It has a free trial for 1 month

[dull crystal]

You can keep running the setup aswell to refresh that

so tis like

basically free

not sure what it locks you out of but it's not anything we use here

[neat kiln]

is that even possible?

[dull crystal]

Yes i've done it

[full fable]

You just uninstall it and install it again

It's literally that simple lol

[dull crystal]

Dont even need to uninstall

[neat kiln]

aight

[dull crystal]

the setup exe overwrites eveyrhting anyway

ok so if you want more than 15 skills my best advice is to add multiple arsenes that can be fused using the previous arsene and a treasure demon, or any of them if someojne here knows how to do that

idk how to deal with the fusion tables so...

But anyway

find the id of arsene, move to that entry in the table section "struct TTableSegment Segment[1]" or it can also be labeled "TableSegmentType_Persona_SkillsAndStatGrowths", and select the drop downs and put in the ids of the skills you want at the desired levels, these can also be edited

there may be more than one arsene actually

like the other party members personas

I have the right id somewhere in my scripts

201

[neat kiln]

an error occoured in the file P5R_TBL.bt

what do I do?

[dull crystal]

You may need to load other template files aswell

though looking at the template

it doenst ask for any other files#

[shut ridge]

easy enough if you're playing on emu

I'd assume you could just make a mod through layeredfs like any other switch game

if not, then yeah it's kinda complicated

[full fable]

Playing P5R on switch emu is kinda cursed

[neat kiln]

I could not for the life of me get 010 editor to work

[neat kiln]

what 010 editor templates to I need to edit persona movesets?

[dull crystal]

Just the p5r_tbl judging by the lack of import lines

It's that being broken or the table file being incorrect

Unless you edited it

And it broke

[queen heart]

Did you manually download the 010 editor templates from a repository like tge-was-taken’s and load the template from there? 010 likes to tell you that it found the p5r_tbl.bt file in a repository somewhere else but it never loads the file’s dependencies so it won’t work. You have to manually load the p5r_tbl.bt from the repository you downloaded.

[neat kiln]

I ended up using another persona editor

it worked

I also took the liberty to remove the pointless ice weakness.

https://gamebanana.com/tools/17757

This app above is what I used, it was much more easy to understand and use than 010 editor.

HOWEVER, I'm still very thankful for yall's help.

I'm gonna close this now.

[wheat scroll]

@neat kiln I'm sorry for pinging ya mate. Before this thread is closed, what do i do now with the PERSONA and UNIT file that i edited? I also used the Table Editor, and same as you, i am working with the Switch version.

Sorry, again, for butting into this thread. xD

Do i simply paste the two files back into the by Aemulus extracted rom, from which i first took the files to edit?

[neat kiln]

The ones in the output folder are to be put in PATCH1.CPK/Base/Battle/Table/

You have to repack the Patch1.cpk using something like CriFS

Also, I released the mod on gamebanana.

https://gamebanana.com/mods/545634