Portal 2 Bringus Menu Mod Switch: Difference between revisions

Bringus Menu Mod for Portal 2
Bringus Menu Mod for Portal 2
General
Author	BringusStudios
Type	Game Hacks
Version	0.3
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2022/07/07
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

Latest revision as of 02:52, 4 July 2023

Mod Menu for Portal 2 for the Nintendo Switch. It allows you to enable cheats, load custom maps, noclip, godmode, spawn turrets, fire rockets, and more.

Instructions for installation are here.

Features

Modded main menu:
- Final boss fight warp to unlock all levels.
- Three custom map slots.
- Ability to load some hidden developer maps.
- Enable sv_cheats.
- Show FPS.
Powerup mode:
- Fire rockets.
- Spawn turrets.
- God mode (invincibility).
- Noclip (walk through walls & fly).
- Read-only developer console.
- Available to both players in co-op (only tested in splitscreen) (new in v0.3).
Advanced audio/video settings:
- Change internal rendering resolution between 720p/1080p.
- Enable or disable Power saving mode (30fps cap).
- Change anti-aliasing & texture filtering levels.
- Enable or disable vsync with double/triple buffering selection.
- Change multicore rendering settings.
- Change shader, effect, model, and texture quality.
- Change speaker setup configuration for surround sound.
- Change sound quality.
- Any setting not mentioned here either does not work, or was there by default already.

Installation

What you will need:

A modded Switch running atmosphere custom firmware that's capable of using LayeredFS.
7-zip installed on your computer.
nxdumptool.

How to dump game RomFS:

Use nxdumptool to dump the contents of portal 2 to your SD card.
You can find the dumped files on your SD card under the /switch/nxdumptool/romfs/portal 2/game.zip/ folder.
Copy the game.zip folder to your PC, inside will be two files 00 and 01, rename them to game.zip.001 and game.zip.002 respectively.
Open game.zip.001 with 7-zip and make sure that you see these folders:
- nxcontent
- platform
- portal2
- portal_dlc1
- portal_dlc2
- update
Extract all of these to a new folder on your PC.

How to install the patch:

Open bringusmenu.zip and extract the nxcontent folder into the new folder that you extracted game.zip.001 into earlier.
If it asks you to replace any files say yes.
Highlight all of these folders that you extracted earlier and right click and go to 7zip > Add to archive.
- You can change the compression level here to normal to save space on your SD card, making the file 8 gigabytes.
- Or you can select store and the game will load a little bit faster but the file size will be about 12 gigabytes.
- Make sure that you're making a .zip archive.
Name the new archive game.zip and put it in /atmosphere/contents/{title id for portal 2}/romfs/
This process can take a few minutes, once the archive is made, eject your SD card and put it back into your Switch and start the game.

How to add custom maps:

To add custom map, rename the map you want to load in the game to:
- map1.bsp
- map2.bsp
- map3.bsp
so the menu will know what to launch.
Then in your extracted game folder go into the /portal 2/maps/ folder and drop it in there.
Then use 7-zip to make the game.zip archive on your SD card again.

Note: Alternatively, you can use masagrator's Portal Collection File Sideloader, which allows you load files outside of game.zip, so there is no need to repack the archives every time you want to change something.

User guide

After entering a map, you can pause the game to enable power-ups:

D-Pad Down - You can no clip or fly around and walk through walls and out of bounds
D-Pad Left - Enable god mode which prevents you from taking any damage
D-Pad Right - Load custom map number one
Left Stick Button - Show the developer console
Right Stick Button - Spawn a turret
Right Shoulder Button - Fire a rocket from your face
D-Pad Up - Disable the power-ups

Screenshots

Media

Bringus Menu for Portal 2 Switch - noclip, godmode, sv_cheats 1, and More! (Bringus Studios)

Changelog

v0.3 2022/07/07

Added multiplayer powerup functionality for both players.

v0.2 2022/07/06

Added new features, see readme.

External links

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 *Then in your extracted game folder go into the <code>/portal 2/maps/</code> folder and drop it in there.
 *Then use 7-zip to make the game.zip archive on your SD card again.
+'''Note:''' Alternatively, you can use masagrator's [[PortalNXSideLoader Switch|Portal Collection File Sideloader]], which allows you load files outside of game.zip, so there is no need to repack the archives every time you want to change something.
 ==User guide==