Persona 5

Persona 5 is a main title in the Persona franchise. It's the long awaited sequel to Persona 4, featuring a new cast of characters who have the ability to "steal the hearts" of their adversaries. It uses a brand new engine with updated graphics and gameplay. Some features from Persona 2 also make a return.

Files
In the USDIR directory of Persona 5's PKG file: In the Japanese version's Update PKG files: In the EU/US version's DLC PKG files:
 * cache.cpk
 * data.cpk
 * ps3.cpk
 * patch1ps3.cpk
 * patch3ps3.cpk
 * ps3sndjp.cpk

Filetypes

 * CPK (archive)
 * PAK/BIN (archive)
 * AWB (sound archive)
 * ADX (sound format)
 * DDS (textures)
 * GFS (environment models)
 * GAP (3d animation files)
 * GMD (models)
 * BF (scripts)

Modding
Like Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable, new files must replace original ones inside a CPK. Although you must keep the filesystem structure intact For instance, if you want to replace sound/bgm.awb, make a folder in your new cpk called sound and place the new bgm.awb inside. In the Japanese version, simply creating a CPK file using patch3ps3.cpk is enough to give modded files loading priority. However, the English release lacks updates. You may replace (or even delete without consequence) the cache.cpk to replace files in the data.cpk directory, but it's picky and will not load if any extra files are present. The current workaround method is as follows: (or optionally use CriPackedFileMaker for an uncompressed 25 GB cpk)
 * 1) Use PkgView to extract the contents of the game's PKG files
 * 2) Use this modified version of CriPakTools to extract the contents of both ps3.cpk and data.cpk to the same folder
 * 3) Use this modified data.csv with cpkmakec to combine both into a new, compressed data.cpk
 * 1) Replace the data.cpk in your USDIR folder with the newly repacked one, and delete your ps3.cpk
 * 2) Fill a new folder with mods, matching the filestructure of the new data.cpk you created
 * 3) Create a new CPK and name it ps3.cpk then place it in the game's USDIR folder

Recommended Pages

 * Model\character - A list of all the character models in the game
 * Bgm.awb - A list of all the background music files in the game