Dance Central 3 Deluxe is a Quality-of-Life Improvement Mod by MiloHax

This mod is currently very early in development, so there isn't much here right now.

👉 See Current Feature List

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👉 Current Feature List

• No Motion Blur in menus
• All venues from DC2
• Black Venue option

✍️ What You'll Need

Playing Dance Central 3 Deluxe requires these things:

• A vanilla copy of Dance Central 3 for Xbox 360 that you can extract onto your PC.
• A modded/hacked Xbox 360 and a way to transfer files to it. We recommend using FTP.

📥 Download

Dance Central 3 Deluxe recieves very frequent updates. You can click the Watch button (All Activity) to be notified about any updates that occur.

📥 Dance Central 3 Deluxe

The most recent Nightly build of Dance Central 3 Deluxe.

📩 How to Install

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

• Install your vanilla copy of Dance Central 3 to your console's hard drive.

  • In case anything goes wrong, we recommend that you rename default.xex to default_vanilla.xex.

• Disable updates for Dance Central 3 in Aurora. Dance Central 3 Deluxe rolls TU1 into its base installation.

• Download Dance Central 3 Deluxe.

  • Copy the contents of it to where your copy of Dance Central 3 is installed (we recommend using FTP to do so).
  • Select Yes to overwrite the files if it asks you to.

✅ Dance Central 3 Deluxe is now installed!

Sidenote: We also recommend clearing your system cache if this is your first time installing the mod.

• Navigate to System Settings > Storage and press Y to clear the system cache.*

🔨 Building (Advanced)

Installing Python (Required)

• Head to the Python downloads, download and install Python (version 3.9 or later).
  • Select "Add python.exe to PATH" on the installer.

Initializing the Repo

• Go to the Releases of this repo and download _init_repo.py.
  • Make a new empty folder, put _init_repo.py 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 3 Deluxe repo is now set up!

From here, you can make any personal modifications to the game or build it yourself.

• Open a CMD/Terminal window in your Dance Central 3 Deluxe folder
  • type python3 dependencies/python/configure_build.py xbox then ninja.
  • Built contents will be in the out/xbox folder on the root of the repo.

🖥️ 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