I found that the MF and EMF mod actually downgrades the game
I found this great pastebin link with steps
I did steps 1-7, 20-28 skipping 8-19 (they are not necessary unless you want to add a ton of accessories and custom clothing)
The 4k Texture mod makes the graphics WAY better, it fixes the horrid bloom and ssao making the lighting look messed up
Additionally I added the shortcuts plugin here, which is why you wan to be on the latest version, I could only get it to work with 1.2 (you can see the version in the top right of the title screen)
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Which allows for POV, hide hud, swap change characters, slow mo, cum control, and tons of other stuff. the futa part is optional if you are not into that sort of thing you can just ignore it.
Now here is the confusing part how to use cards
There are some cards here
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You can basically google for "Honey Select" cards and find tons of resources.
Whenever you search for cards you will find people posting PNG files
Those PNG files are the cards, what honey select does is puts the character data in the PNG file with the image
Just be sure that you are not downloading a resized image, but the original png file
So all you have to do is download that image into the HoneySelect/UserData/chara folder
The game will automatically pick it up, you dont even have to close the game. Just go back to the previous screen and forward and it will see the new card
There are tons of mods and things for this game, feel free to experiment with different things. Just always backup your HoneySelect folder because some things like to overwrite other things and break the game. There is some messy business with item id conflicts and lots of complicated adjustments if you really want to get into modding.
So if you stuck with it and work all this out, you end up with some pretty good results I'm attaching some screenshots.