Tales of Destiny DC

Tales of Destiny - Director's Cut (Patch)

Discord: https://discord.gg/r2ApPegDfx

Video on how to use exisiting tools to extract files:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYQGVAKSUc

Spreadsheet with HEX to Symbol Mapping:
Menu - Items: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TZJpTIxXZckXoy5GH0FOsn5KSkakDqRzaTpIkEcGB10
Menu - Artes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RMCQqtipVHrf9GM91VIz57tzvcEL3Prow1J0D_O1PPw
Menu - Enemy: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ukINdjdGc3kNJCZe0gJYq3_c5n2TAC-hvN18FH3AipY
Menu - Pointers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rErdcmKswMge356yLTQVrbNZ_CG-l09p95RJYBFwalE
Menu - Titles: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11xHJ_wnVdDqs96-SB30bPmRNHZuO6rENCKBs1I9GVVA
Translation - Progress: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nw_GkUXp4MADdVlBsq_vcfuq3yDXv7d_5xo11xwL3ZQ

Use xdelta to patch your ROM with a clean ISO (http://redump.org/disc/2808/).

Artes, Items and some other stuff are uncompressed in the SLPS_258.42 file. Use a hex editor to find what you need. This should be good enough for a menu patch.

00199900 - Names
0019C380 - Artes
001A0FA0 - ???
001A6870 - World Map Names
001AB670 - Menu
001AB910 - Materials
001BF2F0 - Categories
0019A190 - Synopsis Titles

The script texts are the .rsce files found in TOD_DC/DAT/MGLK/xxxxx/xxxxx_xx.rsce

Draconis

13558_61 Start of the game and escape pod room
13559_88 main hall after the start of the game
13569_44 draconis kitchen room
13564_89 draconis room before sword with screen
13563_32 hall outside sword oh! shoot moment
13570_117 sword room draconis
13563_32 hall outside sword room Rutee first convo
13562_82 draconis helm room
13558_61 escape pod room and Start of the game

Chelsea hut's

13582_61 Chelsea bedroom after draconis
13583_76 line 301- Main room chelsea house
13586_76 line 201-221
13581_54 line 287 outside cabin(text about skit)
13592_106 line 285 first conversation with chelsea next to tree
13581_54 line 375-415 return of the party to front of chelsea house
13583_76 line 301-433 Main room chelsea house
13581_54 line419-439 outside cabin

Road to Janos

13603_53 line 369-437fandaria moutiain trail
13610_92 line 13-53 Lens merchant
13611_92 line 13-53 same line lens merchant

Janos

13630_27 lower town Janos
13627_84 line 277-1075 upper Town Janos huge dialogue file
13629_17 line 15-155 Janos shopping street
13639_17 same text than 13629_17 Janos shopping street
13634_35 house in janos with 2 npcs
13644_35 same has 13634_35 house janos 2 npc
13633_34 janos inn
13643_26 janos inn same and with different dialogue than 13633_34

Janos Temple

13603_53 line 281-365 trail dialogue mary and stahn 13657_63 - Inside Temple: Main room with broken pillars & Former Lens Hunter convo w/ Stahn & Rutee line 136-167 13658_85 - Inside Temple: 821-1037 Trap Room convo 1041-1049 Leon/Chaltier Short convo (notice line 1177 and 1059) 13656_35 line 13-61 Rutee/stahn/Mary outside dungeon

Back to Janos

13627_84 line 911-927 convo front of the gate ( npc line 279-323) 13633_34 line127-271 Conversation in the inn 13631_35 line 275-315 bed room inn convo 13627_84 line 931-1075 janos north gate rerize tutorial + extraconvo

Harmentz

13667_70 line 409- First convo in harmentz line 349 - Villager speaking about Walt line 409 - Dialog when they enter the town

Straylize Temple

Armeida

Darilsheid Port

video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cWVikWCpV3IS9NCwPGbUeS1l1lgXnntc/view?usp=sharing
13739_48 - line 279 (before boarding the boat) 0:20
13739_48 - line 319 Hugo speaking 2:16

On the boat

13874_32 - line 1 (downstairs) 2:33
13871_56 - line 379 (other scene on boat) 4:25
13871_56 - line 395 (scene after cutscene) 4:40
Finish at line 451

Sunken base (Finding the 4th swordian)

video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zH2RUKrYQEaiSfptcoKdOhT5E89Tt81q/view?usp=sharing
13882_114 - line 389 0:00
13884_56 - line 25 to 29 1:15
13882_114 - line 417 Philia walking alone 1:48

Scene using the pickaxe :
Search for さっきの<ITEM_149>を使えば in multiple files 3:12
13891_109 - line 115 to 359 Room with Clemente 4:46 to 7:06
13890_71 - line 27 7:14
13882_114 - line 445 7: 20

Cherik

video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/12FzQLQw4a4z9YCPIne9BvpEUk9GvQRpx/view?usp=sharing
13927_79 - line 107 to 159 0:00
13927_79 - line 99 + 13933_73 - line 101 NPC 1:07

Second screen :
13931_38 - line 161 + 13925_36 - line 163 First NPC 1:51
13929_32 - line 9 + 13935_32 - line 9 House 2:48
13928_45 - line 333 + 13934_45 - line 333 Inn 3:06
Some of these files looks like the same file.

Third screen :
13926_76 line 353, 365 + 13932_66 line 345, 357 NPC 3:41
13930_55 line 139 to 311 Barok 4:41-8:08
13930_55 line 91 + 13936_49 lne 173 If you speak again to Barok 9:31

Leon's Side

!(if you see duplicate file you need to do both file if you translate this part or else we will have to come back to fix it later)!

Darilsheid

13736_65 Start of leon side with maria dialogue hugo manor dining room

13735_49 main hugo manor room with npc (line 153+205) 13754_36 duplicate 13735_49 main hugo manor room with npc (line93-145)

13737_40 Manor Upper bedroom (1+7+15) 13756_39 duplicate 13737_40 Manor Upper bedroom (1+7+15)

13738_51 line 5 Manor Main bedroom 13757_43 line 7 duplicate 13738_51 Manor Main bedroom

13725_28 outside manor convo with maria line 297-361 npc line59-65+109+121

13661_36 npc outside manor 13725_28 npc outside manor
13744_35 npc outside manor

13721_77 Darishield shopping street 13740_84 Darishield shopping street duplicate

13730_63 Darishield bar 13749_84Darishield bar 13727_35 Darishield bar annex 13746_32 Darishield bar annex

13723_64 Darilshield shopping street annex 22:55 13742_63 dupplicate 13723_64 Darilshield shopping street annex 22:55

13734_31 Darilshield shopping street annex house 22:18 13753_32 dupplicate 13723_31 Darilshield shopping street annex house 22:18

Resources

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o-z7mNttpQI8nW4TmApNxIPguTY2RJYN (Leon)
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1af6OWsV6cugbeIi1Z-d3DCvp_jQuzJE0YfR2zCOihrA (Stahn)
• http://todrtrans.pbworks.com/w/page/22323479/FrontPage
• https://aselia.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_Destiny
• https://w.atwiki.jp/tod_remake/
• https://w.atwiki.jp/talesofdic/pages/4602.html
• https://gamers-high.com/toddc/
• http://restalittle.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-5.html
• https://hyouta.com/vesperia/
• https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/934092-tales-of-destiny/faqs/47931
• https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps2/942208-tales-of-destiny-directors-cut/saves

Tools

• https://tales-of-destiny-dc.vercel.app/hexToJpn
• https://tales-of-destiny-dc.vercel.app/jpnToHex
• https://tales-of-destiny-dc.vercel.app/engToHex
• http://temple-tales.ru/translations/tools/ToDDCTools_v1.1_by_RangerRus.rar
• https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.hexeditor
• https://translate.google.com
• https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
• https://www.bing.com/translator
• https://www.psx-place.com/threads/apache.19171/
• https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/598/
• https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1419/

Credits

• Thanks to the Temple of Tales Translations team (http://temple-tales.ru/translations.html) for providing tools to edit story and skits
• Thanks to dizzycrunch and chucho1224 for sending me resources to speed up the patch
• Thanks to saito for sending me tools for packaging ISO files properly
• Thanks to Alizor for helping me get started with wonderful resources
• Thanks to everyone on the Absolute Zero discord who offered advice