Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered

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Restore Censored Content (Doritos / Ecto-1)
By Benjamoose
How to restore censored assets from the 2009 release to the 2019 release, such as retro advertisements (Doritos) and the original 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor model files with the original badge, grill and proportions.
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ABOUT THIS MOD
Between the release of the 2009 edition of the game and the 2019 re-release of the game, several assets had their licenses lapse, either due to budgetary concerns or laziness in porting.

Namely:
- The license for the 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor that the Ecto-1 is built out of (something the original devs actually fought adamantly to get for authenticity).
- The license for several retro advertisements, such as the 1991 Doritos ads.
- Any licensing relating to New York license plates.

As a result, in the case of the advertisements, they were replaced with fictional brands, and in the case of the Cadillac, the proportions of the Ecto-1 model were adjusted, the Cadillac car badge and grill were removed/changed, and the New York license plate shape was altered.

This mod restores those specific assets from the 2009 release.

All other assets in the mod archives are unchanged from the remaster, but due to the lack of a mod manager or modding APIs for either versions of the game, unfortunately the entire modified .POD archives have to be uploaded (hence the file size).

Enjoy!



DOWNLOAD THE MOD
Head over to NexusMods and download the latest version of my mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/ghostbustersthevideogameremastered/mods/1?tab=files

NAVIGATE TO THE GAME FOLDER
Assuming that you have the Steam version; right-click the game in your Steam library and click "Properties".












Click the "Local Files" tab on the left then click the "Browse..." button on the top-right

BACKUP YOUR FILES
You may want to backup your original files in case you wish to uninstall the mod quickly.

This can be done by either moving the original files out of the root folder, or simply renaming the file extensions. Alternatively you can also "Verify" your game files via Steam to revert back to the original install.

To rename the extensions, rename the following files:
(make sure you have file extensions visible!)
- W64ART.POD
- W64ART02.POD
- W64MODEL.POD









To:
- W64ART.POD.BACKUP
- W64ART02.POD.BACKUP
- W64MODEL.POD.BACKUP


The actual extension change doesn't matter. You can call it whatever you want, but something like ".BACKUP" will help you remember why you did it.



INSTALL THE MODDED FILES
Drag the moddified W64ART.POD, W64ART02.POD & W64MODEL.POD files from the .zip you downloaded in the first part of this guide, and drag them into the game folder.
ENJOY!
You're done!

Enjoy the mod!

15 Comments
Benjamoose  [author] 28 Jun @ 3:58pm 
@derangedmonk I highly doubt it. Most games that disable achievements due to mods are usually games that have some kind of mass online multiplayer component (e.g. GTA Online).

Since this is a single-player game, I doubt they are checking things like that.

Plus without any proper multiplayer component, there's absolutely no anti-cheat, so if for some bizarre reason your achievements are disabled, you could just remove the mod.
derangedmonk 28 Jun @ 11:19am 
will this effected me getting my achivments?
Benjamoose  [author] 22 Aug, 2024 @ 1:54am 
@Seseorang

It seems NexusMods randomly updated their URL formatting.

I've updated the link in the guide.

@FrancohGZ

Seseorang posted an updated link in the comment directly before yours, but regardless the link in the guide has been fixed.
GOLDENEYEGOD 8 Jul, 2024 @ 8:50pm 
i just heckin need my brand names in my game!
FrancohGZ 6 Apr, 2024 @ 2:40pm 
The link on the article is down.
Seseorang 4 Jan, 2024 @ 2:41am 
Files not found
GarnetEX 28 Dec, 2022 @ 3:59am 
Damn something went up Keldor's ass, but thank you anyways for your blessed work.
Benjamoose  [author] 30 May, 2022 @ 12:15am 
👍
Keldor1978 28 May, 2022 @ 1:01pm 
Replaced content, not censored.

Please, read a dictionary and educate yourself as to what censored actually means...