Insta-Mod Tutorial

Always make a backup of the profiles you're going to edit before installing a mod!

Especially because some items can't be deleted once you install them, unless you use additional software.

You usually don't need to create the backup from in-game, you could just backup the

bigfart

files from the games profile directories (more about these directories below).

It works by exploiting the

Import Objects Collected in LBP

feature in LBP2 or the

Unlock LBP Content

feature in LBP3. When using that feature the

bigfart

file, from the LBP1 user profile directory you have in your console, will be checked for any collectible content there may be within.

You need an

LBP1 profile

directory (those that end with

_USERX

where X is the index number of the user). This means you have to boot LBP1 at least once so that it creates the profile for you. If you play on console you may also need an

FTP connection

to your console.

Once downloading the insta-mod you will need to rename it to

bigfart

and place it within the LBP1 profile's user directory, e.g. if your LBP1 game's ID is BLES1234 and your user id is 1 then you will need to place

bigfart

within

hdd0/game/BLES1234_USER1/USRDIR

.

(The game's ID used for the profile is always the one of the physical copy/non-psn version of the game).

There should be a

bigfart

file in there already, the number to the right of the

bigfart

filename isn't important here, just make a backup of that file before replacing it with the

bigfart

you downloaded.

Then make a backup of the

bigfart

file from the directory of the profile you're going to install the mod in.

In case you didn't boot the game you want to install the mod on yet, boot it. In that case the game will ask you if you want to import the objects collected in LBP1, you can either press

Yes

or just press

No

and skip to the next step that you need to follow whenever the game was already booted when you followed the above steps.

In case the game was booted while you followed the above steps, you'll need to go to your

pod

, press the

Start

button and then click on the button that says

Import Objects Collected in LBP

if you're on LBP2 or

Unlock LBP Content

if you're on LBP3.

NOTE: Using this method to install a mod puts the item in a category called

No Category

.

And that's it. Enjoy fast-modding⚡.