Growlanser 4: Wayfarer of Time USA UNDUB 1.01 (c) ATLUS
hacked by somebody special
-- Information --
Origin: USA+Japan UMD(S): 1
Released: August 4th, 20112 Format: ISO
Platform: PSP Files: 22 * 50MB
-- Description --
Here's a real treat for those of you who love Growlanser.
This "UNDUB" has the USA english text with the complete set
of Japanese voices restored.
Enjoy this excellent game the way it was meant to be played!
-- Release Notes --
("UNDUB? What dub?", you ask?
I created this word, I'm allowed to use it how I want. ;)
Growlanser 4 has been a favorite of mine for many years; it
was always sad that western fans didn't know what they were
missing. But now this great game finally has a chance to
shine in English ...
... and they castrated it by completely removing all of the
excellent voice work, leaving it a lame mute husk.
Seriously, fuck you ATLUS.
Fixing their hatchet job was fairly involved. I ended up
writing special code analysis tools to help identify what
they took out so I could patch voice support back in.
That was painful enough, but the English scripts also have
voice commands stripped. Parsing the ugly script format to
import all the references was not much fun.
It was tricky matching up the English and Japanese dialog
structure automatically, but I think it's done pretty well.
I only tweaked about a hundred of them manually.
Note that the original Japanese game is very inconsistent
about where it has voices. Any unvoiced lines are probably
not my fault.
Overall, this was a complicated series of risky changes so
be glad that I am both awesome and love this game.
(... and hopefully I didn't break anything)
As a bonus, I also patched back in the logic to alternate
between two opening movies.
There are a handful of short cutscenes with dialog and no
subtitles. Live with it; the video quality is bad enough
without nasty re-encoding.
tl;dr, Event, battle, movie and familiar chatter voices are
completely restored! Enjoy.
Tested on a PSP Slim TA-85v2 with CFW 5.50 GEN-D3. ISO is
patched with Prometheus SRW_Z. Use the included patch to
revert to vanilla if desired.
Hackers/coders want to contact me? Look for a fluffy kitty.
-- Update 1.01 --
Well that was fast. I noticed that if you use the config
menu all voices would end up turned off permanently. This
patch fixes the issue even if you have previously done so.
*** USA PUBLISHERS ***
Do it right or die in a fire, assholes. We're sick of you
ruining great games.