Tormryn

I’m going to cover as many bases as I can here. First install Homebrew. It’s legit and perfectly safe; it gives your Mac the same kind of command-line installation tools that typical Linux distributions have built in. There are a lot of nice Unix/Linux utilities that can improve your Mac experience. Next install git using Homebrew on the command line to make sure you have the absolute latest version: brew install gitNow, let’s make sure you have Python 3 installed: brew install pythonFinally, let’s install pyrocksmith: pip3 install git+https://github.com/0x0L/rocksmith.gitTry that process and report back.

I should probably start a thread on this at this point, but I’ve leveraged pyrocksmith with the Mac OS Automator app to build a drag-and-drop applet that converts whatever CDLC you drop on it from PC to Mac and vice-versa. You still have to put your Mac file into your DLC folder yourself, but it makes converting an entire folder of CDLC from one platform to the other easier than converting a single *p.psarc file on the command line. It’s still not as good as having a version of the Rocksmith Tool Kit that works under Catalina, but it does the job.

I’m trying this again with the 6-gig version, but when I try to copy the app from the installer volume to my Applications folder, it stops and fails with this error: “The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.” That’s an interesting error. I don’t think I’ve seen that one before. If you have any ideas about how to fix it, I’d sure like to hear them.

A single caveat on this Python script … it doesn’t like apostrophes or quotation marks in the name of the file to be processed, so you’ll have to take those out when copying and pasting from the Finder to the Terminal command line. I put them back into the name of the Mac file that the script produced. I don’t know if Rocksmith particularly needs them in the final version, but I figure it can’t hurt. Other than that, it works every time. It’s just monotonous to use when you have a backlog of CDLC that you’ve been holding on to while you wait for the Toolkit to start working again.

The Catalina package doesn’t work for me. It says I don’t have enough permissions to copy something in the package over, and if I leave Sophos running it detects a potentially unwanted application at about the 350MB point of copying it into my Applications folder and terminates. Note that the official version does not have this issue.