Hacking [Tutorial] How to "Undub" Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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Yeah. Weirdest thing is Velvet has same voice actor as Vert from neptunia, so the actress has lot of range and distinct voice for different kinds of situations but yeah - I liked berseria but I was not in absolute love with it.
That said I think one part of why people like Neptunia knowing it is not a perfection of gaming or even close, is because it's cast is that much carefree. But at this point we are swaying from the main point.

To be fair, I was the one who points out cries as a very good objective thing you can compare straight where it seems some actors can underdeliver and get OK'd and others just deliver.


The part was in the official trailer shown in at least 7 different languages so...

Everyone else nails it better than English (arguably the most important) voice actor.


So in other words you prefer overacting to subtlety.
 

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So in other words you prefer overacting to subtlety.
Or maybe Agony is what she is feeling in that moment of the game and if you know the scene and shit behind it. straight out agony is not out-of-place for her. Not only that but all other languages than English also get it better than the English actor - the English voice actor for Zelda is just too amateurish and that what she really is in voice acting circles if you see what her past work has been.

There is no subtlety or anything with the English voices she is just not good at faking crying at all and the animation mismatches that fabulously to make a pile of poo.

Zelda's voice acting is not "subtle" or anything, she is just an amateur they chose most likely because of her VERY soft, somewhat wavery speech manner that is as far as the voice alone - just right on the money for same characterization as in the Japanese. The moment I watched few scenes of Zelda in Japanese I got why they chose this actor, at least for her voice alone. But she does not do delivery on par with other languages, and the localization director did not push her to give a better performance either.


I prefer good acting and situation aware acting over bad acting or direction that are so bad that it does not even match the character animation anymore.
 

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Cemu 1.74d : Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Howto using AMIIBO in Cemu and Unlimit daily use Amiibo



step 1 :
activate amiibo menu in game option, press L button to set position of dropped amiibo object, then click NFC menu on CEMU, select scan NFC tag from file

step 2 ( to get unlimited daily use of amiibo)
run botw_editor.exe then tick "unlimit amiibo" option


Note :
for detail howto do that see my video...
 

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Or maybe Agony is what she is feeling in that moment of the game and if you know the scene and shit behind it. straight out agony is not out-of-place for her. Not only that but all other languages than English also get it better than the English actor - the English voice actor for Zelda is just too amateurish and that what she really is in voice acting circles if you see what her past work has been.

There is no subtlety or anything with the English voices she is just not good at faking crying at all and the animation mismatches that fabulously to make a pile of poo.

Zelda's voice acting is not "subtle" or anything, she is just an amateur they chose most likely because of her VERY soft, somewhat wavery speech manner that is as far as the voice alone - just right on the money for same characterization as in the Japanese. The moment I watched few scenes of Zelda in Japanese I got why they chose this actor, at least for her voice alone. But she does not do delivery on par with other languages, and the localization director did not push her to give a better performance either.


I prefer good acting and situation aware acting over bad acting or direction that are so bad that it does not even match the character animation anymore.

They're just trolling, don't bother.
 

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I'm pleasantly surprised to see Nintendo actually patch this in. I suppose I'll be giving them my money after all then.

But that'll be on the Switch. For now, the correct course of action to get the best experience would be to uninstall the modded game, install a clean copy and then download the patch from the website which shall not be named, yes?
 
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I'm pleasantly surprised to see Nintendo actually patch this in. I suppose I'll be giving them my money after all then.

But that'll be on the Switch. For now, the correct course of action to get the best experience would be to uninstall the modded game, install a clean copy and then download the patch from the website which shall not be named, yes?
I assume you can just use the title key from that title key site when it's available since I've checked and the voices isn't there.
 

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Who knows, it's possible it was this project that lead them to realise how strongly people felt about it. I get the impression that it simply didn't occur to Nintendo that anyone would care.
That can be true, I agree. Since nintendo removed gamepad's features most likely to make the two versions be on par with each other rather than the weird explanation "they started to be weird for the game anyway" - Since Wii U owners almost instantly found a way to homebrew another language into the game true move of parity would enable audio tracks officially, I am quite glad for this move and still supporting Wii U owners in this - since Wii U version was region locked and did not include all voice tracks in all regions they even made a free DLC download to enable Japanese audio alone, most likely (which you still have to download to enable the option for any language though)


Still, I am quite surprised by this move, positively though. Not in 10 years being fan of nintendo and their stuff and getting kinda inside the "mind of the company" would I have thought they would decide to do this after the fact after deciding something in launch. I mean where is the patch to uncencor TMS #FE (I just realized Tokyo Mirage Sessions - TMS = SMT backwards = Shin Megami Tensei) or Project Zero Black maiden etc. Still very cool stuff to get.
 
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Good to hear about Nintendo listening to its fans, or maybe noticing the amount of re-downloads I did to undub the game
(the epitome would be if they added true Hylian mumbling, but its understandable that this might be to cost inefficient).

If anyone is bored now, he might try to figure what we did wrong with our undub or try to reconstruct the dropped wii u gamepad controls

btw. I suggest updating the OP, adding Nintendo official statement, so people don't unecessarily try to inconveniently make a manual 99% undub.

..."they started to be weird for the game anyway"...
well, obviously they don't say "we dropped the wii u gamepad support to not make the Switch version look inferior in comparison"

Speaking in a mildly pessimist way, Nintendo might have added multi-lang because it was a reasonable argument for homebrew and hacking their consoles.
 
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Speaking in a mildly pessimist way, Nintendo might have added multi-lang because it was a reasonable argument for homebrew and hacking their consoles.

If that was the case, I'd actually be fine with that. It would mean Nintendo was actually paying attention to the various reasons people might hack their console and/or pirate games. I'd welcome them giving me a reason to not hack my console.

Another example could be the fact the Switch is region free. If some people hacked their Wii U and 3DS to play out of region games then why not remove that particular incentive?

I just wish PC pubs would drop the Steam-only crap.
 
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...My dub only works if a play on the Wii U tablet (with the voices being muted if I switch screens). Anyone else noticed such behavior?
I still had this with the official dub. Turns out the problem is tied to the system settings (using Stereo- instead of Surround-Sound fixes this). Depending on how your TV outputs the sound, different levels (or channels) of audio might be lacking (e.g. music, voices or npc sounds in my case).

just want to clear things up here and maybe it helps someone.
 

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I'm not sure whether to make a new thread with this (let me know if I should), but since a BARS extractor was mentioned on the last page, I decided to chime in here.
I spent the last 8 hours reverse-engineering the BARS format used in BOTW and wrote an extractor in Python: https://gist.github.com/SamusAranX/6eb8b6fd1777b17afc3107a979c2409a
The Gist covers the usage, the basic documentation, in case anyone else wants to take a crack at it, and the script itself. You'll need Python 3.

I tested the extractor with KorokPot.bars and SiteBoss.bars and it yielded BFWAV files that were easily convertable to WAV with tools like Uwizard.
(If there is another converter with a good CLI, please let me know so that I can automate the entire conversion process in my extractor)
 
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Well well. I don't know if the people gave up in getting these champion voices when fighting the Divine Beasts or their grunts when talking and the powers voiced (and maybe some more grunts) and basically have the game 100% undub or if someone gonna read this but I HAD IT.
FINALLY, after so much headaches and almost killing myself, I already got the fucking solution, and is pretty simple with the new update with the voices selector.

(I'm using CEMU 1.9.1 but the process I think its applicable to all systems)

1: Update the game , DLC included
2: If you have the JP voices already, check if you have the NV_Custom_NoActor.bars and StaticVoicePack.ssarc inside the JPja carpet. If not, then you don't have all the files (and so, the missing voicelines). You have two options then
2.1: Download the JP version with the DLC/last update and grab the files mentioned (simply search these files) and put them in your JPja carpet (your JPja carpet should have 201 files exactly)
2.2: If you are lazy or you have slow internet (like me) I'll do the favor and upload these files for you (I dunno if I can post that, tell me)
3: Put the JPja carpet in the DLC directory (yes, the aoc one). The full route should be like "cemu_1.9.1\mlc01\usr\title\00050000\101c9500\aoc\content\0012\Voice" (for EUR version)
4. Start the game. Go to Options and change the voices selector to Japanese.
5. Enjoy the 100% undub <3

It seems that when the selector comes with an update, and these files, somehow, are all in the aoc content, tried that and finally worked.
 
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