Hi preta, are you one of the team members mentioned in this thread?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/742120/discussions/0/1739968490573373255/
They claimed that the mod will be ready by the end of this week.
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Dragon Quest XI orchestral music pc mod?
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https://steamcommunity.com/app/742120/discussions/0/1739968490573373255/
They claimed that the mod will be ready by the end of this week.
I just have to hear back from the guy I was communicating with who's actually capable of inserting it.
Yes, OP is one of our group.
I'll keep an eye on this thread. Will buy the game as soon as this mod is available.
Cool. Thanks for all your hard work, much appreciated! Just take your time.
This is going to be a long week...
Once this mod is complete I think Preta deserves a tag, like "Maestro" or something. This is so wonderful.
Once this mod is complete I think Preta deserves a tag, like "Maestro" or something. This is so wonderful.
Count me among the many that are excited about this! I adore the game but an orchestral OST will do wonders for me personally. :) Can't wait!
I love that we somehow went from "It's probably not possible due to x y and z and even if it is it will be a lot of work" to "we're ready for insertion".
As someone who works on mods like this, that's actually a huge amount of progress to make in just a few short weeks time. Respect to the people working on this!
As someone who works on mods like this, that's actually a huge amount of progress to make in just a few short weeks time. Respect to the people working on this!
It's mostly due to the fact that Unreal Engine 4 is such a known entity, so someone working in the Unreal Engine community on scripts to unpack the game could quickly get access to the game (despite it's comically primitive form of encryption), and things went up from there.
Yeah, I've been following along with this. Still, this is pretty fast and good work!
I do think some were trying the downplay the probability of getting a music mod so that people wouldn't be tempted to wait and instead pick up the game on immediate release.
the existence of this mod is the only reason why I've been staring at my unopened ps4 copy for the last 2 weeks...
There's not really a conspiracy here, people were just genuinely doubtful that it could happen and didn't want people to skip the game over the music.
No, it was just lack of knowledge. I was one of the people who said it, and it's because I tried to unpack the thing myself and it was clearly encrypted. And it was. It just turned out that the decryption key was a bog standard easy to guess string. If it wasn't that, it would have been harder to do.
It helps that it was literally just two simple bitwise operation (XOR against that key, and then a NOT, if I followed infogram correctly), so assuming you know how the header of a pack looks like, and know your way around a hex editor, it shouldn't be hard to figure out.
The alternative would have been to extract the key from the .exe (since they game needs to have a way of decrypting it, after all). That might have taken much longer, if they had used a proper encryption method, say AES.
Glad it's coming along so well! I really hope those of us who want to play the 3DS version don't have to wait too long for a translation patch, though. No idea if anybody's even working on it, right now. :/
EDIT: Since I don't have a clue about that stuff- is it a matter of copy-pasting the existing script of the Steam-version to the 3DS-version? I assume it's not as easy and there has to be some kind of optimisation with text-boxes and stuff. But do they need to manually check and correct every single text box in the game?
Then there is also the additional content of the 3DS version, which contains unique and untranslated text. Does one of you know how much of that there actually is? Will it take presumably a long time to translate or are there really only few lines here and there? Just want to mentally prepare myself for a long wait, lol.
EDIT: Since I don't have a clue about that stuff- is it a matter of copy-pasting the existing script of the Steam-version to the 3DS-version? I assume it's not as easy and there has to be some kind of optimisation with text-boxes and stuff. But do they need to manually check and correct every single text box in the game?
Then there is also the additional content of the 3DS version, which contains unique and untranslated text. Does one of you know how much of that there actually is? Will it take presumably a long time to translate or are there really only few lines here and there? Just want to mentally prepare myself for a long wait, lol.
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If someone wanted to do a 3DS translation mod, using the script in the English version would help out & would cut down a lot of work sure, however knowing a lot of people on that scene & guessing that the English version takes a lot of liberties, they will likely refuse to use the official English version as a base, because it "ruins the game"
Omg this is such good news. I haven't bought the game yet, was waiting until this was an option. Between that and getting 60fps, I'm really happy that this released on PC.
Big thanks to everybody involved in this, really appreciate the effort and sharing it with the rest of us.
Big thanks to everybody involved in this, really appreciate the effort and sharing it with the rest of us.
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Hey everyone, I'm one of the modders involved with the Orchestration Overhaul mod. Just wanted to give you all a link to the page so you can follow our progress. We will be updating as often as possible throughout the week.
Also, special thanks to Preta; we literally could not do this without her. Send her good vibes everyone :)
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/742120/discussions/0/1739968490573373255/
Also, special thanks to Preta; we literally could not do this without her. Send her good vibes everyone :)
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/742120/discussions/0/1739968490573373255/
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Preta is a woman, just saying.
Anyways, thank you for working on this, it really means a lot to me and so many other Dragon Quest fans. Welcome to ERA as well as I see that's your first post. I will follow said updates in the steam forums.
Everyone is amazing on doing this. I can't say thank you enough for the work that's involved.
Apologies, it's not come up in group conversation. I've edited my original post to reflect that. Thank you for letting me know!
I sure hope we don't, but Canzah (who has joined our project, precious work being the restoration mods for DQ7/8 3DS) has had experience with this, so his help is much appreciated.
Preta, Scenedikemon and everyone involved.
Tag these beautiful people please <3
Once this mod drops ama pull the trigger and get the game.
Tag these beautiful people please <3
Once this mod drops ama pull the trigger and get the game.
Keeping an eye on this. Although I'm 90 hours into the post game on the PS4 version.
Will be nice to revisit the game on PC with the music mod.
Will be nice to revisit the game on PC with the music mod.
Hopefully it will be fine as long as no one lets Sugiyama know, I'm betting he doesnt even know the internet exists.
I'm wondering if they even let him know that West SE released a statement about his views.
No. Orchestral versions were officially released, but Sugiyama wouldn't allow their use in-game. Preta took these versions and edited them to loop perfectly. The team is now in the process of replacing the in-game versions with these orchestrated versions.
I'll let the professionals handle the explanation but Preta custom looped orchestral versions of the tracks needing to be replaced.