An effort to polish up Tales of Destiny's UI, presentation, textual flow and terminology, as well as undoing localization errors and censorship. It is not a full retranslation.
Author(s): mziab, FlamePurge, SeiichiroMine, Kevan33
Version: 1.0
Date: 9th of April, 2025
Status: Complete
Source: https://github.com/mziab/tod-reforged
can someone help me out I'm new to all this playing on psvita it keeps freezing in the middle of battles and menu is hard to open and close battles just started freezing know that I'm half way threw the game. I'm guessing im just messing a setting or something
I've been playing it for months now. In case it helps anyone: Yes, the intro is in Japanese, plus the translation improvements. So there's no reason to choose the undub version, intro restoration, which is also on the site.
tales of destiny 1997 psx original game already had japanese voice acting in every version (including the official translations) so there really isn't anything to undub
the anime OP song by DEEN group was changed to a generic fantasy song and the current "undub" hack restores that but doesnt do anything else. I'd go with Reforged imo
In 2000 when i got a PS2 TOD2 was a game we rented. But alas we didn't have a PS1 save card, so we couldn't turn the PS2 off or we would lose all progress, so for the 2-3 days we had that game we tried to get through, and got through the first disc.
A shame about the 'restored' J-pop intro song. It's God-awful in comparison to the symphonic and GLORIOUS USA release theme.
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Can't edit my post. Gonna need a post merge, ty in advance.
I fixed it (I am that stubborn, yes). If you too would like to restore the USA symphonic theme, read on....
You will:
-dump the USA version of the game files (only need OP.STR file)
-dump this hack's files
-edit a file in notepad++
-cackle with glee when it all works
Grab dumpsxiso.exe and mkpsxiso.exe HERE. Extract the iso into a folder, dump the 2 exes in there with it. Open CMD in folder, and run the following:
dumpsxiso -s rebuildit.xml "Tales of Destiny Reforged (v1.01)[Track 1].bin"
It'll dump the game files into a subfolder named after the bin, and a nice xml file with the tree in root dir. Leave the CMD window open. Open the xml in notepad++ (because notepad doesn't respect linnicks spacing or some shit like that), and change the 'type' of all the STR files to STR, and the 2 XA files towards the bottom to XA. Change the image name at top if you care to. Save and close.
That done, drag and drop your OP.STR from an untainted copy of Tales of Destiny (USA) (not available here) that you dumped using instructions above into the MOVIE directory of this hacks dumped files, replacing the unfortunate version where now some nerd sings over the sound effects and everything for no aesthetic reason at all. Almost there guys!
Go back to the CMD window you left open, and type the following, and hit ENTER:
mkpsxiso -rebuildxml rebuildit.xml
It'll rebuild your ISO using the xml as a template. How cool is THAT? Anyhow, it'll spit out a new bin/cue, so convert to chd or whatever. Enjoy your cat girls AND the superior intro!
A shame about the 'restored' J-pop intro song. It's God-awful in comparison to the symphonic and GLORIOUS USA release theme.
Post automatically merged:
Can't edit my post. Gonna need a post merge, ty in advance.
I fixed it (I am that stubborn, yes). If you too would like to restore the USA symphonic theme, read on....
You will:
-dump the USA version of the game files (only need OP.STR file)
-dump this hack's files
-edit a file in notepad++
-cackle with glee when it all works
Grab dumpsxiso.exe and mkpsxiso.exe HERE. Extract the iso into a folder, dump the 2 exes in there with it. Open CMD in folder, and run the following:
dumpsxiso -s rebuildit.xml "Tales of Destiny Reforged (v1.01)[Track 1].bin"
It'll dump the game files into a subfolder named after the bin, and a nice xml file with the tree in root dir. Leave the CMD window open. Open the xml in notepad++ (because notepad doesn't respect linnicks spacing or some shit like that), and change the 'type' of all the STR files to STR, and the 2 XA files towards the bottom to XA. Change the image name at top if you care to. Save and close.
That done, drag and drop your OP.STR from an untainted copy of Tales of Destiny (USA) (not available here) that you dumped using instructions above into the MOVIE directory of this hacks dumped files, replacing the unfortunate version where now some nerd sings over the sound effects and everything for no aesthetic reason at all. Almost there guys!
Go back to the CMD window you left open, and type the following, and hit ENTER:
mkpsxiso -rebuildxml rebuildit.xml
It'll rebuild your ISO using the xml as a template. How cool is THAT? Anyhow, it'll spit out a new bin/cue, so convert to chd or whatever. Enjoy your cat girls AND the superior intro!
A shame about the 'restored' J-pop intro song. It's God-awful in comparison to the symphonic and GLORIOUS USA release theme.
Post automatically merged:
Can't edit my post. Gonna need a post merge, ty in advance.
I fixed it (I am that stubborn, yes). If you too would like to restore the USA symphonic theme, read on....
You will:
-dump the USA version of the game files (only need OP.STR file)
-dump this hack's files
-edit a file in notepad++
-cackle with glee when it all works
Grab dumpsxiso.exe and mkpsxiso.exe HERE. Extract the iso into a folder, dump the 2 exes in there with it. Open CMD in folder, and run the following:
dumpsxiso -s rebuildit.xml "Tales of Destiny Reforged (v1.01)[Track 1].bin"
It'll dump the game files into a subfolder named after the bin, and a nice xml file with the tree in root dir. Leave the CMD window open. Open the xml in notepad++ (because notepad doesn't respect linnicks spacing or some shit like that), and change the 'type' of all the STR files to STR, and the 2 XA files towards the bottom to XA. Change the image name at top if you care to. Save and close.
That done, drag and drop your OP.STR from an untainted copy of Tales of Destiny (USA) (not available here) that you dumped using instructions above into the MOVIE directory of this hacks dumped files, replacing the unfortunate version where now some nerd sings over the sound effects and everything for no aesthetic reason at all. Almost there guys!
Go back to the CMD window you left open, and type the following, and hit ENTER:
mkpsxiso -rebuildxml rebuildit.xml
It'll rebuild your ISO using the xml as a template. How cool is THAT? Anyhow, it'll spit out a new bin/cue, so convert to chd or whatever. Enjoy your cat girls AND the superior intro!
I remember the first time I saw this game running. I was entranced. Then I don't know if I played it or tried Tales of Phantasia also for the PS1 first. All I know is that I didn't go far into Phantasia because it was in Japanese, and got stuck in one of those four dungeons by the end of this one.
Then later I played both in English, in order. And... I never played another Tales of ever again. People say that the first impression is the one that sticks, but no, man. I was bored to death playing both games. I much prefer Phantasia's OVA, even if it's a choppy mess. But I love the world map in Phantasia and the Utopia song in Destiny though.
Couldn't find many specifics. Just what they put on the github page.
Reverted censorship and localization changes in the graphics (sprites, overworld graphics, and items).
- Waitresses changed from cat-girl costumes to an ordinary outfit in the U.S. release.
- Dialogue with waitresses also changed to accommodate new outfit.
- Save point changed from Star of David to triangle in the U.S. release.
Uncensored the Sylph, Undine, Nurse and False Ishtar battle sprites.
- I assume these were showing too much skin so they covered them up more in the U.S. release.
Hello, I don't know if it's the way you patch it or the patch itself is the problem, but every time a cutscene where Belcrant will fire on the surface, the game locks/freeze up. Tested on my Anbernic device with Garlic OS, and on PC with Duckstation.
I don't deal with real hardware but maybe you need to place the .pbp inside a folder with the game ID code for it to work? if that's the case, I'll amend the upload, but I don't know how these work outside of emulation.
I don't deal with real hardware but maybe you need to place the .pbp inside a folder with the game ID code for it to work? if that's the case, I'll amend the upload, but I don't know how these work outside of emulation.
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