Tutorial: Installing Mods

This guide is for the people that want to put some shiny new content into their game.
Most of these characters we're exclusive for the 3DS version of this game.

Information Overview

This guide will show you a very simple way to install any kind of a mod into your game.
I'm using my SSD disk for modding, since these mods require fast disk reading speed.
You can use normal HDD as well. If your disk reading speed is slow: Lags will happen.
Lags can cause desync in cutscenes or overall slow loading times and or slowmotion.
Most computers in todays day and age won't experience any of those issues: Hurray.
The LEGO Games from Traveller's Tales are all using basically the very same engine.
And that means one simple thing: You can put mods into all of them with a simple trick.
We can thank the guys behind the QuickBMS tool and the .DAT files extractor for that.
If you have some mods of your own, you can post them in the comments of this guide.
I'm sure that there's a lot of fans around here who would love to see some new mods.
I will be showing you how to install a cool mod from a guy named 'Tiny Tsu Sandwich'.
This really amazing mod is called: Lego PotC Character Mod Stable and Lorefriendly.
You will receive 24 new playable characters from this mod and they are really worth it.
Most of these characters we're exclusive for the PSP and 3DS players: Not Anymore.
You can choose from two mods. The first one is stable and fully functional all around.
The second one is experimental, there's a couple of small bugs, but it's much bigger.

List of new characters that you will receive from the basic "Lore Friendly" mod:

Elizabeth (Gold Gown)	Mr. Gibbs (Sailor)	Mr. Gibbs (Navy)	Broondjongen
Hector Barbossa (Cursed)	Pintell (Dress)	Ragetti (Dress)	Scarlett
Jelly	Greenbeard	Finnegan	Giselle
Jack Sparrow (Illusion 1)	Jack Sparrow (Illusion 2)	Jack Sparrow (Illusion 3)	Jack Sparrow (Illusion 4)
Manray	Ogilvey	Old Haddy	Palifico
Quittance	Ratlin	Wheelback	Jack Sparrow (Groovy)

The Experimental Mod has the same characters as the first mod, but there's more of them:

Pintell (Cursed)	BoSun (Cursed)	Will Turner (Child)	James (Young)	Elizabeth (Child)
Ragetti (Cursed)	Clubba (Cursed)	Mallot (Cursed)	Grapple (Cursed)	Twigg (Cursed)
Jacoby (Cursed)	Koehler (Cursed)	Weatherby (Young)	Will Turner (Faceless)	Mermaid (Variant 1)
Mermaid (Variant 2)	King Ferdinard	Sailor (Navy)	Kings Soldier	Mermaid (Variant 3)
Officer (EITC)	Soldier (EITC)	Red Coat (Basic)	Red Coat (Rifle)	Red Coat (Officer)
Officer (Spanish)	Soldier (Spanish)	Captain (Spanish)	Blue Coat (Senior)	Zombie (Pirate)
The Fish (Pirate)	Pirate (Variant 1)	Pirate (Variant 2)	Pirate (Variant 3)	Pirate (Variant 4)
Cursed Pirate (1)	Cursed Pirate (2)	Cursed Pirate (3)	Cursed Pirate (4)	Providence Crew (A)
Han Solo (Star Wars)	Leia (Star Wars)	Jack's Ex (Variant 1)	Jack's Ex (Variant 2)	Providence Crew (B)

If you decide to manually edit the experimental mod, you can have even more characters:

Jack The Monkey (Cursed)	Tortuga Female (Variant 1)	Tortuga Male (Variant 1)	Fisherman	River Local (1)
Jack The Monkey (Normal)	Tortuga Female (Variant 2)	Tortuga Male (Variant 2)	Cabin Boy	River Local (2)
Boat Dealer (Tortuga Male)	Tortuga Female (Variant 3)	Tortuga Male (Variant 3)	Man Driver	Society Lady
Port Royal Female (1+2+3)	Singapore Local (1+2+3)	Port Royal Male (1+2+3)	A Trader	Old Man (Gown)

Step 1: Preparation

1.Crate a backup of your entire game folder. It's always better to have the backup ready.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean The Video Game
2.Download the QuickBMS and the TTGames Script from their official page.
The link to their official page is: http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm (Version 0.9.2) or this:
The link for the backup website: http://aluigi.zenhax.com/quickbms.htm (Version 0.9.2) or this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190127023959/https://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/quickbms.zip
3.Put the downloaded stuff into a new folder and then open the quickbms.exe
After it's opened, it will want a BMS script from you, just select the ttgames.bms

Step 2: Extraction

1.When you insert the ttgames.bms, It will now want the archive, select the GAME.DAT in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean The Video Game
2.Now it will ask you to select the output folder. Extract it directly into your game folder.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean The Video Game
3.Wait until it's finished and then repeat the same process for the remaining five files.
Just simply extract the GAME0.dat, GAME1.dat, GAME2.dat, GAME3.dat and GAME4.dat.
4.If you see the error messege from the picture below, then follow these instructions:
It's simple, just press the "A" key on your keyboard and then press the "ENTER" key.
5.Delete all of the following files from your game folder in order to proceed:
Now delete all of those .dat files from the main game directory as well as the __DISC__ file.
6.You also need to delete the CHARTXT.FPK file from the CHARS folder, so do it.
After you deleted it: You can go ahead and download the mod that you want to use.

Step 3: Modding

1.Download 'Lego PotC Character Mod Stable and Lorefriendly' from the following website:
https://modworkshop.net/mod/19408?tab=downloads
2.Open the downloaded archive and extract the new files into your game folder.
Just put the files from the chars folder into your chars folder and that is literally everything.
3.Everything should be now fully operational and you should now try to play your game.
All of these new characters will be purchasable after you complete the levels that feature them.

Step 4: Optional

1.You can download 'Lego PotC Character Mod Experimental' instead of the previous mod:
It's from the same guy: https://modworkshop.net/mod/19405?tab=downloads
2.The instructions are basically the same. Remember: You can't have both mods installed.
Just put the stuff from the downloaded CHARS folder into the CHARS folder of your game.
3.Now you can open up your game and see if everything works as expected:
Since this mod is experimental, there is a couple of bugs: Three character icons are invisible.
4.If you want even more characters, you can edit the collection.txt file of this mod.
It's located in the CHARS folder and you can open it up and edit it with a basic text editor.
5.You can enable characters that weren't enabled or you can disable the enabled ones.
Disabled character have '//' in front of them, it looks exactly like this: //collect "character"
6. If you want to enable a character, simply remove those '//' that are infront of him.
And if you want to disable a character, then just simply add those '//' infront of him.

Thanks For Reading

If you run into some kind of a problem, perhaps you did forgot to extract all of the .dat files.
Or perhaps you have forgotten to delete all of the mentioned files: Please, double-check it.
If you've done everything correctly and still having a problem: Go ahead and post a comment.
I will try to help you out if I can. And others can do so as well. This guide is for troubleshooting.
If someone decides to update this mod or provide a different mod: I will inform you in this guide.
You can also post some mods of your own in the comments below, maybe I will put them in too.
I've showed two mods, but you can only use one at a time, choose wisely. They are both good.
There's a small friendly community of LEGO modders available at https://discord.gg/XbbyfCP

[Shop Manager | Rik87]

What's that Cursed Jack sparrow next to Cursed Barbossa in the last screenshot? I can't find it in the character list

[Bebeto]

Hello me it doesn't work the mods when i launch the game the characters don't appear

[GaybitBiscuit]

Here's yet another alternative way to obtain QuickBMS 0.9.2
https://web.archive.org/web/20190127023959/https://aluigi.altervista.org/papers/quickbms.zip

[xPeePeeBandit >: )]

@lvl30dragonenchanter

Right click your game in your steam library
Go to Properties
Copy and paste " -dxlevel 90 -32bit -heapsize 2048 " into your launch options

This should stop the game from crashing so often it worked for me

[lvl30dragonenchanter]

is there a mod that stops the game from crashing every 30 minutes?

[GaybitBiscuit]

If you cannot see 0.9.2 on provided sites, I found another backup site:
The 0.9.2 version: http://aluigi.zenhax.com/papers/quickbms_0.9.2.zip

[GaybitBiscuit]

Warning:

The latest Quickbms from 05 Apr 2021 isn't working properly with the LEGO extraction.
Therefore: You will need to download the previous older version of the Quickbms tool.
You can actually download the older version very easily from the same exact website.
I edited the guide so that it now shows the (0.9.2) version alongside the external link.
So please: Make sure you're downloading the Quickbms 0.9.2 (old). That one works.