ROM Hack DEAD The Last Remnant "Undub" mod

[masagrator]

I was working for last few days at running english subs with japanese audio because I don't like to play jRPGs with english dub.
After playing one hour I dropped this game because I didn't like it.

Here is what i did for having this sort of undub mod, because it's more english patch for japanese language.

It's not fully tested and not completed. It will have bugs for sure.

What should work:
- All rendered text have english language
- Fonts are changed to international

What is not working:
- Textures with names of locations when it's our first visit are still in Japanese

For correct working you should use Atmosphere 0.8.10 or newer if you don't want to change system language.
Somehow earlier I found that by editing exefs you can force this game to run in Japanese language, but I don't remember now how to do it (thx to that it can work with all CFWs without using override_language from atm).

It will not be updated, that's why is tagged "DEAD".

Remember to restart Switch after installing this mod.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

I'm looking through it right now since I'm sure there is a way to change what voices play in the Internationalization files, were you able to find anything through those cause changing the language to Japanese then patching it seems a bit weird, I don't mind the game so testing isn't an issue for me.

 

[masagrator]

From what I checked sound files are hardcoded to executable. Japanese sounds are under JA locale, everything else is under US locale.
Just I assumed there is no way to do it that way. I was thinking about swapping audio, but US and JA have different quantity of files.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

I know, I thought that would be easier but I wanted to keep the size to a minimum.
Is it possible to patch the exefs to play the Japanese voice track?

 

[masagrator]

I know, I thought that would be easier but I wanted to keep the size to a minimum.
Is it possible to patch the exefs to play the Japanese voice track?

From what I checked - there is no simple way.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

I think I found a way to fix the remaining bugs, I'm not good at hex editng so I'm not going to bother with the exefs.
This sounds dumb but how do you make the ips patches? is it the normal way you make an ips patch or is there a trick to it?
I tried asking in the atmosphere thread but sadly no one answered.

 

[masagrator]

I think I found a way to fix the remaining bugs, I'm not good at hex editng so I'm not going to bother with the exefs.
This sounds dumb but how do you make the ips patches? is it the normal way you make an ips patch or is there a trick to it?
I tried asking in the atmosphere thread but sadly no one answered.

Use hactool

hactool --intype=nso --uncompressed=main_unc main

Make copy of main_unc, edit main_unc, make patch with LunarIPS (only for first 16 MB) or SIPS for bigger files (if you will compile it for Windows, can you send me exe? I'm using it in Linux right now).
Name is buildid of main which is in offset 0x40 (16 bytes). You need to copy it to

exefs_patches\any_name_you_want\*.IPS

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So yeah - IPS patch is about editing exefs

 

[Niko_of_Death]

Thanks for the patch, surprised one came so quick when I've been waiting for one for Smash since launch.

Makes me miss being able to just go into the vita filesystem and rename the language files for most games.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

Use hactool

hactool --intype=nso --uncompressed=main_unc main

Make copy of main_unc, edit main_unc, make patch with LunarIPS (only for first 16 MB) or SIPS for bigger files (if you will compile it for Windows, can you send me exe? I'm using it in Linux right now).
Name is buildid of main which is in offset 0x40 (16 bytes). You need to copy it to

exefs_patches\any_name_you_want\*.IPS

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So yeah - IPS patch is about editing exefs

Thanks so much, it's not my first time making game mods however the switch is a bit different than on pc or older consoles.

This will sound really dumb but I never built from source before nor do I know how so after some trial and error and reading many guides I was able to build this, I don't know if this works or not so please test it.

 

[cucholix]

I did find the English dub quite good actually

 

[masagrator]

I did find the English dub quite good actually

I know, I have this bad habit because of watching too many animes. Japanese games have always something that I can't play them with English dub.

@AnotherAlternative I will try it when I go back home.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

I did find the English dub quite good actually

I just like having options, an argument could be made with 6th gen and older that space contraints make multiple voice tracks not always possible but there just isn't an excuse now when space isn't a problem.

@AnotherAlternative I will try it when I go back home.

No problem.
This might sound stupid but would renaming the file paths in the uasset from US to JA fix the bugs? I'm assuming that these are the US assets with the folders renamed to JA, now this is a pain to manually edit all the files and I have no idea if it's possible to script it to speed up the process.

 

[masagrator]

This might sound stupid but would renaming the file paths in the uasset from US to JA fix the bugs? I'm assuming that these are the US assets with the folders renamed to JA, now this is a pain to manually edit all the files and I have no idea if it's possible to script it to speed up the process.

You need to consider all files with the same name.

Uasset contains Informations about uexp and sometimes data, uexp contains data.
I renamed from US to JA files and folders.
PLAN contains strings, MENU contains settings of localization. If you will try to copy only files in PLAN, game will crash. And it looks like this game doesn't like putting some files to patch - for example fonts. That's why I shared also IPS patch which forces international fonts.

I think Textures from issue I mentioned are in EFFECTS folder (in Final Fantasy this folder contains Textures that are rendered with... effects)

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OK, i read it again. It looks like I need sleep.

I don't think this will repair issue. If this would cause issue, then game would crash instantly.
I would start with EFFECTS folder.

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And consider this. Why you want to change US to JA in files if issue is that we don't have US Textures? Doesn't make sense, right?

Or maybe I don't understand something.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

The result is quite funny now that I've tested it, all the text is now replaced with @.

Been looking at this for a while, going to take a break, might come back to it at a later time. It's somewhat functional with just one thing not currently working.

 

[masagrator]

If it's red @, then probably you have still IPS Patch loaded and game tries to show Japanese strings (or you swapped JA with US and games tries to load Japanese strings as US with international fonts instead of Japanese).
I had this issue when changed strings to English. Fonts were still Japanese and one of them didn't have one character which showed as red at.

 

[AnotherAlternative]

Ah, well I'm kind of stumped with this one honestly .
I'm going back porting some pc mods to switch .

 

[masagrator]

@AnotherAlternative I checked sips and it looks like you compiled it with cygwin dependencies, so it's not working without cygwin.

 

[cucholix]

The game is kinda dark in town, it looks fine during missions and battles though

 

[AnotherAlternative]

@AnotherAlternative I checked sips and it looks like you compiled it with cygwin dependencies, so it's not working without cygwin.

Ah, let me try again.
I want this on windows as well .

 

[Niko_of_Death]

The result is quite funny now that I've tested it, all the text is now replaced with @.

Been looking at this for a while, going to take a break, might come back to it at a later time. It's somewhat functional with just one thing not currently working.

Did you ever make progress on this?