The tools he made allow me to edit text and graphics and insert them back into the games. froid_san told me he lost everything in a hard drive crash so I'm on my own now. But since I'm just editing text and graphics, and the tools do that, and I don't really have any technical issues at the moment, things are going fine. I haven't heard from him since 2020, but I did send a message today asking if I could release his tools when I release my patch. If I don't hear from him, then I can't release the tools. Sorry.
There are a couple things I'd like to mention that came up. Some of this maybe be widely know, I don't know, but since you asked, here they are. (I know this is a very long post, so sorry about that):
1.I would have loved to get the 4 t-shirt Agumon enabled somehow. The only way to get them is to import a Japanese CS1 save file where you have already acquired them. The Agumon with the Tower Records t-shirt and headphones is so rare that it will most likely never get dumped. (Only Tower Records ever announced the promotion to get the DLC code from buying the CS1 at their stores soundtrack. As far as I can tell, Bandai Namco never announced this promotion and then only picture I could find was on Tower Records' twitter.) There as also apparently going to be a western DLC of a Shibuya Records Agumon, but no graphics for this were made and the DLC was never released. That Agumon is probably what the placeholder t-shirt texture that appears to say "corporate logo" in Japanese is for. That's all far beyond my abilities, though.
2. Did anyone ever find a way to restore Bearmon, Chimeramon, and Skull Baluchimon? Their textures are in the game, but there are no character portraits, and I have no way of knowing if anything else remains, as I can't get into any any files other than text and graphics.
3. There's a lot of cut dialogue in CS1. Most of it is for the CS1 player character. It turns out they were originally supposed to be much less of a silent protagonist. No idea how to enable it, as that's beyond my abilities and the scope of the project.
4. There is one other thing that came up. I'm sure somebody else has probably figured this out already, and I'd forgotten all about it until now, but I may as well mention it.
When I started this (and was still posting on reddit), someone named "darkmaster_12" had messaged me. His account has since been deleted, but he had told and shared a link to a now-deleted unlisted youtube video of how he'd edited 2 boss-only Special Attacks into the game for normal use (Arkadimon Ultimate's Exile Spear and Grand Locomon's L Express Attack) but he dismissed my efforts as "research" only and never went into too much detail about how he did what he did and didn't release his work to my knowledge and he said what he was doing wasn't "relevant" to me.
I still had the messages saved in my reddit inbox, so here are the last 4 messages of our conversation before he went silent. These are the only relevant ones to this topic:
darkmaster_12: "I've already put some of the cut skills back into the game on my own research. only one of them seems to have a working animation. (two, technically)
the skills digimon have/learn are controlled by the farm database. not sure why you would need to go into there for your text-based research though."
Me: "I'm not just doing research. I'm working on a patch with someone and I'm editing the text to improve the translation. I saw the cut attacks and was reminded of you and wanted to see if putting the skills back in was possible. Was L Express Attack the one? What was the other one? Is there anything you can tell me about how you did this? Which file is the farm database? It seems a shame to be doing a patch and not try to do this."
darkmaster_12: "Exile Spear is the other one.
I just did some save editing after reverse engineering the database, which was weeks/months of analyzing the bytes and figuring out how everything connects.
I'm currently in the process of trying to restore voice clips to player digimon, from the royal knights."
Me: "Have you documented your findings or had any intention of releasing anything? This information would be very helpful to us. And others, I'm sure."
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