Hacking Nights of Azure - English Patch

ZetsuboOH · Jan 29, 2020

Nights of Azure - English Patch V1.0.3
by ZetsuboOH (a.k.a. DespairOfHarmony)

Introduction
This is Nights of Azure English Patch for PS3. I'm working on it since December and i have everything almost done for now

Screenshots

All of them were taken from my PS3

Progress

UI Textures
IPU Textures (Tutorial, Chapter Monologues)
Events
Saves
Servan In-Game Dialogues
Room Names
Item Description
Character Names
Memories
Monster / Servan Description
Extras
Movies
Balloon Dialogues

Some UI Caption - Read Issue #2
Something that I've overlooked

Issues

#1 - There is a 20 character limit on dialogues, i haven't find any clues on where this limit is stored.
#2 - Some text like 戻る (Back) can't be translated, they just disappear when i try to translate.

Notes
Some battle help images may show an Xbox controller overlay

Download
Version 1.0.3 - MEGA (Mirrors soon)

Changelog
1.0.3
- Merge with game update (1.03)
- Fix eboot patching on xdelta
- LunarIPS method to patch eboot

Installing Patch
*Only for digital version NPJB00716
*Tested only on CFW

ATTENTION - NO patched EBOOT's, or decrypted, or game RAP files will be provided here.

Installing game assets

1. Install the full game an all updates
2. Copy NPJB00716EN-V100.pkg to usb:/packages/
3. On PS3 go to Package Manager and install the package

Patching EBOOT.BIN (Tutorial adapted from froid_san)

1. Using multiman/FTP/usb, go to hdd0:/game/NPJB00716/USRDIR/ and copy the EBOOT.BIN to your PC
2. Dump the game RAP
3. copy EBOOT.BIN and game RAP to your ESSSE RESIGNER v4.5.4 folder
4. Using ESSSE RESIGNER v4.5.4 run ESSSE_RESIGNER.bat
5. Select [A. Resign EBOOT]
6. A warning about with Free type NPDRM EBOOT will show up, just press any key to continue
7. The EBOOT.BIN will be decrypted to EBOOT.ELF in your ESSSE RESIGNER v4.5.4 folder (you mignt need to press F5 to refresh the screen)
8. Rename EBOOT.ELF to EBOOT.ELF.ORIG
9. Run xdeltaUI and select “Apply Patch” tab
10. On Patch, select either “EBOOT.ELF.xdelta”
11. On Source file, select the EBOOT.ELF.ORIG
12. On Output file, save it on the same folder and name it to EBOOT.ELF
13. Select “Patch”
14. Back to ESSSE RESIGNER v4.5.4, select [2. Resign to FREE TYPE NPDRM 4.21]
15. On Compress Eboot You can select which ever you want but i personally use [2. NO] just so it would be the same size as the original
16. A new EBOOT.BIN will now be resigned
17. Copy that back to your hdd0:/game/NPJB00716/USRDIR/

Credit

VitaSmith - for gust_tools (https://github.com/VitaSmith/gust_tools)
chrrox - for his QuickBMS script for Dynasty Warriors 7 textures
Eveldee - giving me a help on video encoding

Eveldee · Jan 29, 2020

Impressive work !

For the movies, you could try to use the Hybrid encoder, if you don't find how to use it, just send the media informations using mediainfo and I'll tell you if something is doable.

Good luck with the end of the translation, I'll be here to test it on release

ZetsuboOH · Jan 29, 2020

Eveldee said:
Impressive work !

For the movies, you could try to use the Hybrid encoder, if you don't find how to use it, just send the media informations using mediainfo and I'll tell you if something is doable.

Good luck with the end of the translation, I'll be here to test it on release

Thanks a lot, i managed to encode it, now movies are fully working

jijisama · Jan 30, 2020

thanks a lot for your hard work i will be waiting for the patch release

Charismatic · Jan 31, 2020

Looking forward to this

Never knew this game was available for PS3 until recently.

MasterJ360 · Jan 31, 2020

Charismatic said:
Looking forward to this Never knew this game was available for PS3 until recently.

Yeah its just one of those games that never got a western ps3 port for some odd reason. Tales of Berseria is another great example, it also got an English patch.

Charismatic · Jan 31, 2020

Nice

I'll have to check that out at some point. Been having a blast exploring the CFW side of PS3. Whole different beast than the PS Vita.

ZetsuboOH · Feb 5, 2020

Just a quick update: I've been solving some issues irl, but now i have everything ready for release

If everything goes well, until Feb 9 (or earlier) the downloads should be available

Thanks everybody for showing support =D

ZetsuboOH · Feb 9, 2020

All right, release is done now

Downloads and instructions are on the main post

Charismatic · Feb 9, 2020

ZetsuboOH said:
All right, release is done now

Downloads and instructions are on the main post

Aww yea! Time to test this baby out. I have it transferrring to my PS3 via MultiMan FTP. I'll post screenshots in a bit as to how the patch turned out.

Charismatic · Feb 9, 2020

Install was pretty flawless. Here's how it came up on my end for the start of the game:

Was wondering why part of the text dialogue was missing, to realize that you mentioned about the 20 character limit (Very similar to the english patch that was done for the Vita version of Nights of Azure 2). I'll definitely play through this to see the rest of the translations, but so far pretty good.

IkkiSK · Feb 19, 2020

Hello everyone, First time posting so hope I don't make any mess. I followed every single step and managed to obtain EBOOT.ELF. But when I tried to patch it with xDelta UI, it gave me this error : XD3_INVALID_INPUT. I'm still looking for a solution. Did I do something wrong? Also checked if the correct files were selected on xDelta UI, and everything is ok according to the instructions. If someone could help me, I would really appreciate it! Really want to play it on my ps3!(maybe the solution is easy to find and i'm really doing something wrong..)

edgedumx · Feb 26, 2020

Hello.i have the same problem. I hope and be glad if u can upload the original Eboot,bin or the patched one. to make the xdelta file. Thanks for ur great work and time.

[12:16:45] Original file "EBOOT.ELF" selected.
[12:16:48] Patch file "EBOOT.ELF.xdelta" selected.
[12:16:57] Applying patch, please wait... (don't panic!)
[12:16:57] An error has occurred: xdelta3: target window checksum mismatch: XD3_INVALID_INPUT

ZetsuboOH · Mar 1, 2020

Sorry for the delay, i've mismatched some eboots when creating the patch

Here it's a hotfix for eboot xdelta patch:
https://mega.nz/#!FXJjjKAL!ccwky6o5u51r3bZvaYXyKR2mxvFyzFtqhUnzdRdWxWY

Check if it works now

edgedumx · Mar 2, 2020

Thanks for your help on the issue. But i still get the same problem.

Jjsong · Mar 3, 2020

it working on ps3 hen.
So thanx!

Malckyor · Mar 7, 2020

Oh, finally I can play this one too o/ thank you for the translation!

I'm feeling like I'm missing something really good for quite some time.

Malckyor · Mar 8, 2020

Alright, I need some help. I'm having trouble with it.

First, I don't know how to dump the rap files, unless you're talking about that stuff with the exploit for hen with the act and idps files, anyway I have no clue.
Then when I try to ignore it and try to Resign eboot I get an error "could not obtain klicense for..." and "could not decrypt header" and finally "cannot decrypt eboot.bin".
I've tried it with trueancestor self resign but it could not decrypt either... so I ask for help on what exactly I have to do, why, what am I not doing?

Edit: After a long research I learned how to dump the rap files and I could decrypt it, but as edgedumx said, there is this problem with xdelta and no matters what we do, we do not have the same file with the exactly hash key as you and I already know that it will never works unless we have the exact file and the exact hash key, so I didn't mind and inserted the files into the backup files of the game (from the physical version) and so far the game is working, with half-english and half-japanese.

edgedumx said:
Hello.i have the same problem. I hope and be glad if u can upload the original Eboot,bin or the patched one. to make the xdelta file. Thanks for ur great work and time.

[12:16:45] Original file "EBOOT.ELF" selected.
[12:16:48] Patch file "EBOOT.ELF.xdelta" selected.
[12:16:57] Applying patch, please wait... (don't panic!)
[12:16:57] An error has occurred: xdelta3: target window checksum mismatch: XD3_INVALID_INPUT

ZetsuboOH · Mar 16, 2020

Sorry for the delay again, i've got a break now form university bc COVID-19 so i can solve those issues more faster

Let's test another way:
Here it's a link for a Lunar IPS patching, i think that LIPS don't make checksum verification, then it should have no issues (i hope)

https://mega.nz/#!ZOoBnYQB!8ApZPpiX84FBA40HdoOuhLSx-caiqRfVT4ayObTBwMo

Remember to patch on the decrypted eboot.elf

Malckyor · Mar 16, 2020

ZetsuboOH said:
Sorry for the delay again, i've got a break now form university bc COVID-19 so i can solve those issues more faster

Let's test another way:
Here it's a link for a Lunar IPS patching, i think that LIPS don't make checksum verification, then it should have no issues (i hope)

https://mega.nz/#!ZOoBnYQB!8ApZPpiX84FBA40HdoOuhLSx-caiqRfVT4ayObTBwMo

Remember to patch on the decrypted eboot.elf

Sweet, that worked! Well, when I get home I'll test if the game will work. But at least it patched alright.

By the way, mind you if I ask you why not making this for the backup version? I'm curious about it.

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