Castlevania Harmony of Despair [NPUB30505]

I followed these instructions today and my folder looks exactly like you mentioned, but the character select still freezes.  Any other potential options here?  I can play as Soma, but once I click on the character select, game crashes.

Have you added the dummy file inside "\dev_hdd0\game\NPUB30505\USRDIR\dynamic\player"? Remove caches and try to run the game in Interpreter (fast) PPU to see if tts working with these options.

I'm going to be honest and did not follow the dlc instructions thinking that piece wasn't necessary; however, I just completed the tasks exactly like you described and it works!  Thank you so much.