[MOD] Conker: Live & Reloaded - Decensor Patch/Mod

Note: I've already fixed the scrolling issue seen in this video.​

I'm working on a mod to remove as much censorship as possible. Unfortunately there's no tool for editing CAFF files, and the version used by the game hasn't been reverse-engineered yet (as far as I know), so for now I've edited a couple of scripts as a proof of concept, using a hex editor. Some scripts don't like being edited like this, so proper reverse engineering of this version of CAFF may be necessary. It should also be possible to restore the original (uncensored) audio by taking parts from Rare's uncensored¹ MP3s² if there's a way to repack the audio.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/nastys/conker-live-and-reloaded-decensor

UPDATE: somewhatlurker has reverse engineered how the script is stored in the CAFF files. A proper tool that doesn't break anything should be possible now!

UPDATE 2: I've written a simple string editor: https://github.com/nastys/CAFFTextEditor/releases
If you all want to help, you can compare the Xbox version's text to the N64 version's (and try to guess the rest e.g. by listening closely to the first and the last consonants), edit the files, then fork the repository of the mod, add your modified files, and open a pull request.

UPDATE 3: I have succesfully decensored the poo boss battle:

 

The game uses uncompressed (?) multi-channel audio, so my idea is to only replace the beeped parts to preserve the quality (the "echo" channels are not censored).

 

Code:

text data:
0x20: "LSBL" pointer
0x28: number of trigger names(?)
0x2c: start trigger name(?) pointer structs

trigger name pointers (size 8):
+0x00: address
+0x04: some kind of id?
+0x06: definitely an id (I guess identifies script.. not sure but it's used a lot)



LSBL (script lines?):
+0x10: LSBL length?
+0x20: number of lines?
+0x24: start line pointer structs
...
[after structs]: 0xFF
[after structs]+0x02: text length
[after structs]+0x06: text start (utf16?)

line pointers (size 6):
+0x00: id?
+0x02: characters offset into text (not bytes)


cutscene list?? (acually part of LSBL? idk -- located at LSBL address + LSBL length):
+0x00: length
+0x04: number of scenes
+0x08: start scene pointer structs

scene pointers (size 8):
+0x00: some kind of id?
+0x02: some kind of id?
+0x04: name offset (from end of pointers)


movie/sound list (acually part of LSBL? idk -- located at cutscene list address + cutscene list length):
+0x00: length
+0x04: number of entries
+0x08: start media pointer structs

media pointers (size 8):
+0x00: some kind of id?
+0x04: offset (from end of pointers)

media info (ssems to be a string?):
; cutscene***.; Mpeg = ???: ???.wav.
(can have multiple Mpeg+wav sections

The text is obviously wstring. There is a checksum (https://gist.github.com/x1nixmzeng/c55c248c384bf1c9df2a), but it doesn't seem to affect the text itself. Terminating the wstrings with '\0' seems to work somewhat, but of course I've had issues with this approach and I haven't worked on it in a while because I had to stay away from home for a while and I couldn't use my Xbox, and XQEMU barely runs it.

 

I know I've been away for quite some time, but I haven't given up on this project yet

I've written a simple string editor:
https://github.com/nastys/CAFFTextEditor/releases

If you all want to help, you can compare the Xbox version's text to the N64 version's (and try to guess the rest e.g. by listening closely to the first and the last consonants), edit the files, then fork the repository of the mod, add your modified files, and open a pull request.

I'll take care of the audio later. I know there are some deepfake/AI voice synthesizers that might help.

 

Here's the poo boss battle, fully decensored: