They should've just gone the Tekken route, let the Americans speak English, but have the party understand anyway. Maybe have an "Oh crap, English" throwaway line again or something.
I've made some decent progress on this, having replaced most of the fully acted "auth" scenes, but I ran into a bit of a roadblock with the "talk" scenes where there's a button prompt to skip dialogues. The problem is that a lot of the dialogues that I replace can either get cut off early or have an awkward pause at the end, due to the length of dialogue being different. Additionally, the subtitles often don't match what is being spoken. I'm assuming that both of these problems can be fixed by editing sound_auth.bin, but so far, there aren't any publicly available tools that can edit this file.
So I'm wondering: should I keep working on "talk" scenes knowing that there will be constant issues where dialogue is cut short and lasts too long? Or should I wait for the unlikely event that someone makes tools to fix them?
Sounds like the odds are pretty low at someone making a tool for that. I think running a poll somewhere and asking the community if they'd still want the mod would be a good idea. Even if this mod doesn't come to fruition at least people can use the Kiryu Jap mod and play in english.
EDIT: RIP, seems like the Kiryu Jap mod for dub is broken with the most recent update.
I would very much rather have them with the constant issues than suffering Kasuga(a guy who is supposed to be not good at english) being so fluent in english or painful JP Bryce english.
I would love a mod that only touches the "auth" scenes if that's what it takes. I think glitchy "talk" scenes would be acceptable too, though! I hope you consider releasing what you have, but understand if you prefer not to.
IKR when i do substories for Tony Lemonade, Raymond the lifeguard, Matt Tropico, and English Sujimon trainers except Ace. I have no choice to change audio since it ruins immersion so much. Also i like Roman's english VA more
Please update this for full game. They insist on making the antagonist speak slow broken engrish in JP dub was hilarious at first but is now just cringe.
Really interested in this! Honestly my ideal for Infinite Wealth, and I was hoping it'd be an option natively present in the game for full release but alas, was not to be. Please continue working on this!
I'm definitely wanting this one just for both Andre Richardson and Danny Trejo's character (haven't gotten to that part of the game as of this post, so please NO SPOILERS)
After playing a fair bit, it looks like it may not be as difficult as initially thought. A lot of the dialog that ISN'T the main JP party already flips between sub and dub automatically... so all that's left to do is cook it for the party members like Tomizawa and Chitose. It's just weird AF why they didn't flip for the party members when they do it for the rest of the game... makes no sense.
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So I'm wondering: should I keep working on "talk" scenes knowing that there will be constant issues where dialogue is cut short and lasts too long? Or should I wait for the unlikely event that someone makes tools to fix them?
EDIT: RIP, seems like the Kiryu Jap mod for dub is broken with the most recent update.
We need this for the full game. Please!
Please continue working on this!