Dark Cloud 2 (UNDUB) PS2 ISO

The very old undub by Mugi even with an addendum by Fei still had unsubtitled tutorial & post-game ending FMVs, quite a few voice clips simply not playing back, cutting out, and overly quickly advancing the cutscenes where the voice clips were replaced with mute placeholders, and a couple of uncopypasteable SFX sound banks were borked as well.

However, this undub is not exactly perfect, as 21 voice clips had to be very up-temped and/or trimmed (think FFX's withyunabymyside) to fit English timings for auto-advancing lines, and injecting English text into Japanese stb/sb2 scripts results in more severe issues, so this was an unfortunately necessary compromise. Some lines in the tutorial FMVs also had to be up-temped to keep the audio in sync with the video.

A whole bunch of voice clip grunts have no English counterparts, so it was not possible to carry those over; majority of them are in the opening chapter of the game.

Note: Be sure to set the Message Speed to Fast in the options before starting the game, or else lots of subtitle lines won't have enough time to display in full.

• "Blackstone" (Railroad/One), because I can't quite figure how to faithfully interpret "バース", and the localised variant at least sounds alike enough, so it was left untouched for the time being.
• "Dark Genie" is not "Demon" for consistency with DC1.
• Regular monster names; no idea if any of them need to be touched up at all.
• Happy Clown retains his localised appearance instead of DC1 look from the JP version of the game.

"Dark Chronicle" title/loading logo is available as a separate patch if you want it, which also swaps the opening and attract FMVs for regular JP versions.