Yeah I did the same, apparently the game can't load repacked archives on my system for whatever reason, so I won't be working on it anymore.
Good luck with your efforts everyone.
On my system it crashes the game as well. Did you place it in both game and update?
Good job, are you planning to make a compressor? It's maybe worth a try to repacking it with matching size to original file (either the whole .bars or the one of the .bfaw inside) to see if it's a wrong file...
Did you try on external HDD as well? That's the only thing left that I can think of that can be different between people who managed to make it work and those who didn't.
Has anyone successfully launched the game with modified .pack (either for the method in OP, or for TitleBG repacking) on...
That's strange, maybe you haven't reached them yet? I think voices of the characters which names used in the NV bars files names are muted outside of the cutscenes if replaced with Japanese version.(Can't tell more specifially as I haven't started the game yet).
Yes I'm aware of it, but I think...
Just like the voices from other NV_*.bars from the Voice folder.
I was rereading this thread and apparently all reports on problems with copying of bars files were related to the muting of voiced NPCs lines, which most likely are stored inside those .bars containing wav.
It's interesting that...
Only the .bars files starting with NV_ have sound. Well, at least they have data segments marked with "FWAV" strings inside them.
How far in the game is the first dialog with dub leftover or a sound problem related to the copying of .bars files?