Suikoden 'Patch'

Borus · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:25 am Post subject: Suikoden 'Patch'

Does anyone know anywhere the PC game might be obtained? Or is this just a rumor?

I'd like to try my hand at patching and see if I can't tweak my own version of the story, collecting fav's and whatnot.

Alseid · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:29 am Post subject:

I believe only S1 was ported to pc, right?
As for getting it, aside trying to get it off E-Donkey or something like that, i'm clueless. And honestly, i don't think you'd have much luck there anyway.
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Borus · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:39 am Post subject:

I'll have to have a look. Thanks for the tip! I'll have to look into conversion and scripting. A friend of mine says he can 'rip' (assuming that means transfer) some files from a PS2 disk to his computer and from there, maybe we can open them up and learn how they were built, modify, build, etc. It'd be a time consuming process, but I think it would be well worh the time and research to be able to tweak some effects, add some story, and basically, just explore the suikoden world on the programmers level. Lots of insight in that world, I imagine.

Alseid · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:45 am Post subject:

Oh boy, that takes more work than you'd imagine. Take a look at these groups that make fantranslations of games. More particularly, look at the one that is trying to translate to english the PSX version of Tales of Phantasia. They've been at it for a couple years now, and just recently they managed to crack the code properly to finally be able to modify stuff without making it a bugfest.
And that's on PSX only.

So, yeah, it is considerably more difficult than one would imagine at first.
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Gwendal · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:39 am Post subject:

That sounds great, if you`d be willing to put in the time and effort. But instead of searching for the PC version, try using an emulator like ePSXe(sp?).
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Thief · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:47 am Post subject:

Suikoden II has a PC version, but in Chinese only.

Borus · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject:

I know a few programming engineers, (sadly, none of which speak fluent Chinese, or who are even remotely interested in Suikoden--to my knowledge, anyway.) so I've seen the frustration levels that accrue as a result of pulling out strings of code, writing, re-writing, placing, misplacing, etc. Honestly, it probably wouldn't go much further than a hobby for me, but I did some work with some friends of mine and we made a fully functional 'mod' for a PC game called Baldur's gate, based on a couple of old games from the eighties. One was called Dark Tower, and the other one called Dragonmaster. It was not easy, and my role was primarily in creative supervision. The only real hands on programming I had was with entering script lines, and a few lines of code here and there when everyone else got bored. On reflection, you might be right. Doing it ruined all three games for me after all was said and done (though I still plunk in BG once in a great while)

Eggith Cyrene · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

i take it the pc port is only in japenese?
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