I've already replaced the "se" files but a new error appears
SOLVED: use winrar for the extraction, 7zip have problems
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SOLVED: use winrar for the extraction, 7zip have problems
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People with this issue are just doing the japanese locale wrong. It's always the same issue with everyone.
As you can see 90%+ of the people here are running the game without issue.
Japanese locale made no difference for me. I play Japanese rpgs all the time, translated or untranslated. But its ok. Just wondering how it's so broken.
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Had a guy have this issue even with japanese locale. Re-downloading the file and extracting it with winrar (and selecting on extraction japanese locale) fixes the issue.
Some japanese games don't come with japanese characters in their files. Just some. That's why other games work for you.
Keep trying! The game files are fine.
Thank you! This fixed the rest of the missing sound effect problems for me. I've been only using 7zip and never had this particular problem up until this point.
Extracting with 7zip in Japanese locale seemed to have maintained the Japanese filenames, but for some reason every filenames that have a Japanese character with the double quote (dakuten) or dot (handakuten) mark will appear off (the marks may be cutting into the next character). The result is that they will have slightly different filenames that don't match what the game is looking for.
For example, the game might be looking for "audio/se/%E3%81%B1%E3%81%A1%E3%82%934.ogg" or "audio/se/ぱちん4.ogg" but your "audio/se/ぱちん4.ogg" (if you used 7zip) is actually "audio/se/%E3%81%AF%E3%82%9A%E3%81%A1%E3%82%934.ogg". Those string of numbers in the error message can be decoded using a URL encoder/decoder to find the real filename, which you can use to look for and rename the bad file.
I don't have any technical knowledge in this field so that's as far as I could make sense of whats happening. I don't know why this particular game can only be extracted correctly with WinRAR.
Come on motherfucker pull the trigger.
Come on pull the trigger
PULL THE TRIGGER!!!!!! LETS GO SHOOT ME!!!
SHOOOT ME!!!!!
Same issue even after applying all patches. It is looking for OGG file, and files with such extension are not present anywhere in the game folder.
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FYI the issue is probably because you are not using locale and compressing the files using an emulator or a different encoding.
I have locale set and play/extract every japanese game without issues, your uploads are the first that started showing this issue because you are messing at some point during the compression process.
As you can see the audio fix is still compressed but people can uncompress those without issues. I would recommend using 7z or similar when compressing your translations to see if it helps.
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Not using an emulator, just using 7zip to compress them.
I also do have Japanese locale set.
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Why are your uploads .zip instead of .7z? Something is wrong at some point in the chain just not sure where. Like I mentiond previously could be some mac<>win encoding issue as well.
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I'm on windows 10.
You can .zip on 7zip as well. I prefer using .zip so people do not have to download 7zip to uncompress the files (which might generate confusion for some).
Maybe I'll try .rar instead if that works better, although only a small % of people get this problem. Don't know why some people do and why others don't.
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Why your uploads have the __MACOSX folder in them? That folder is only created once a game goes through MacOs.
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Just cause sometimes I test them on a virtual machine as well (which runs on macos). Although I do not modify or compress the files there.
And again... why some people have this problem and others don't? If I was braking something in the process every single person would have the issue (including me cause I uncompress and test the games on another pc as well).
Some past games also had the issue and they never touched my virtual machine on macos
... so I don't think that's the problem.
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Well I guess it depends on what system they are running, lots of people reacted and downloaded the audio fix, so it isn't really a small percentage that needed it.
Also like mentioned I have my win10 set to japanese for years and never experienced similar issues before.
The differences are very slight but it is enough to cause the error:
Your game is encoded like this:
シティエンジェルBut it should be this:
シティエンジェルIf you use
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you will see that they are not the same which causes rpgm to not find the files, even if they look normal they have different UTF-8 codes.
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I'll try a different config with 7zip. Would you mind helping me out testing? DM me on discord if you can.
Can't have the game open for more than like 10 seconds without an error which is weird considering I've had my locale set to Japan basically since getting my laptop