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YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z - Japanese Dub! {wip}

By BOBdotEXE

The english voices are fine...

...What? you still want the japanese dub? you know what this game is, right?

...Alright fine, you win...Here's a guide to mod in the Japanese audo with subtitles text! (... for everything execpt in-combat dialogue)

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Secrets

Languages: English, Japanese

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14 Apr, 2017 @ 11:52pm

22 Jun, 2017 @ 12:24pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Part 0: Disclaimer!

Part 1: Audio

Part 2: In game text

Part 3: Pre-Rendered Cinematics!

Part 4: In-combat Subtitles {WIP}

Bonus Section! English Error messages!

Comments

Part 0: Disclaimer!

Hey! thanks for checking out my guide!

PLEASE NOTE: This is not intended for use on your first playthough.

For the most part, this works great!

The cinematics play fine with Japanese audio, and English text, menu's are English, and the in game prompts are English, and all the in game speech is in Japanese!

...but, the in game chatter subtitles do not work.

It's limited to JUST the talking that happens mid-fights, but it's enough that you may miss some dialogue.

...but if you've played the game before, it's not as big of a deal, as I said, all the important pre-rendered stuff has proper English subs!

Part 1: Audio

Steam has the option to change the games language, It's really handy.

But unfortunately, it's an all or nothing change. No option for english subs.

That's what the mod's for!

So for part 1, change your game to japanese.
Right click on the game, and select 'properties'

Then click 'language' and select 'Japanese'

Part 2: In game text

Next we'll be adding in English In game text

First go to this folder:\Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z\NRZGame\Localization\

Then you should see a few folders, rename 'JPN' to something else, for example 'JPN-old'

Now you pick your native language,
ESN = Spanish,
FRA =French,
INT=English
And rename that folder 'JPN'

Now go inside your new 'JPN folder, and rename the end of all the files (except DO_NOT_DELETE.txt) to .JPN

Example: Base.int becomes Base.jpn

Part 3: Pre-Rendered Cinematics!

This is a bit more confusing.

First, browse to: \Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z\NRZGame\Movies\

Then rename all the .TXT files that end with '_JPN' for example, you could rename "LS_Default_JPN.txt" to "LS_Default_JPN_OLD.txt

Then there should still be some untouched TXT files left, Rename all of those remaining files, adding _JPN to the end.

For example: "LS_Default.txt" would become "LS_Default_JPN.txt"

Now all the Pre-rendered Cinematics will have English subs!

Part 4: In-combat Subtitles {WIP}

I have yet to find out where they are stored.

When I find out, I'll update this guide.

Bonus Section! English Error messages!

To make the game engine also use english test for debugging,

Repeat 'Part 2' with this folder: \Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z\Engine\Localization\

Again, rename the JPN folder, then rename INT (english) to JPN, and change the file extntions to .jpn

8 Comments

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iMACobra 30 Oct, 2020 @ 12:10am

@Serbian Prinny
I don't think my problem has anything to do with PCConsoleTOC.txt which is what I think you're referring to, no. Like I said, with my method I can play the game with Japanese text and English dub but I can't play with English text and Japanese dub, the sound and subtitles do not play when doing so.

Serbian Prinny 29 Oct, 2020 @ 7:46am

@iMACobra
Do you know anything about editing TOC files? I heard that editing TOC files prevents crash to occur.

iMACobra 28 Oct, 2020 @ 10:42pm

Now, here is the problem. For some reason, the JPN voice files will not play in-game, along with the subtitles if changed to the corresponding INT files. However, the opposite is not true, as in, when changing the Language of the game to Japanese and then changing all the INT files to the JPN ones, the English voice files will actually play properly.

I am stumped on this and if anyone reading this wants to try and take a crack at it: the very first subtitled voice file played in-game is Insrt_Crash_Paths_LOC_INT/JPN.upk, that's where I would start my testing.

iMACobra 28 Oct, 2020 @ 10:42pm

Thanks for this guide!

While it changes the game's localization to Japanese and modifies almost all the Japanese text to English (I couldn't find the damn subtitle files myself), I did something different to try to achieve the same effect.

I found where all the in-game voice files (minus the pre-rendered cutscenes which this guide already covers) are stored which is: Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z\NRZGame\CookedPCConsole\. The English voice files end in _LOC_INT.upk while the Japanese ones end in _LOC_JPN.upk. Ignore the last Startup_LOC_INT/JPN.upk file which will crash the game if you modify it. Basically, I just renamed all the _LOC_JPN.upk files to _LOC_INT.upk.

Serbian Prinny 16 Oct, 2020 @ 3:15am

Did you ever manage to find out how to make subtitles be in English?

BOBdotEXE [author] 30 Apr, 2020 @ 6:59am

@bereta.x I don't think so, sorry.

bereta.x 19 Apr, 2020 @ 6:09pm

is there any chance to increase subtitles size??

cauliflower 27 Aug, 2017 @ 9:06pm

This is great. Thanks!

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