FFVII - Crisis Core UNDUB FIX-D&T

Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core USA UNDUB FIX - D&T -- FIX -- The original release had a lot of video errors, apparently the JP source I used was extremely unreliable. Sorry for this, I hope you can all get this new copy. -- Info -- This is an undub of Crisis Core that we threw together. Can't guarantee that all the audio replacement is right, as have yet to play through the entire game. We're aware "Power Surge" is still in English, it would be too much hassle to undub those, but other than that, everything should be Japanese. -- Group Message -- We hope you guys enjoy the awesome game the way it was meant to be played. Would like to give thanks to Gnie for his awesome Xpert 2 application, and the UMDGen guys for their tool as well. Big thanks goes out to EMINENT for their pre-launch release of Crisis Core, so we could get this undub out before the actual game is out. This release brought to you by Drakia and Tkeil.

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direct4mhell (2008-03-25)

isnt there a USA release? what is th difference?

Drakia (2008-03-25)

This is the USA release with Japanese audio.

stherox (2008-03-26)

Thank You for this great relese. Will you fix it with all limits sound later?

Drakia (2008-03-26)

I can't do the DMW sounds as they are stored in the compressed ATEL files, and as of yet nobody has been able to figure out how to decompress/recompress those. Sorry :(

Drakia (2008-03-26)

Ok, so I thought I'd post a list of some of the things I couldn't actually get, or that have small glitches.
The beginning conversation on the cellphone was in the US release as audio, but in the JP release as just text, so I had to just scrap the audio for that.
There's another conversation involving Aerith later in the game that was the same thing, so again, you're stuck with just subtitles.
There's a cutscene where Zack is talking to a bunch of Infantrymen, where the subtitles are 2 seconds delayed, this is because the US release added 2 seconds of panning the crowd to the video.
The DMW's are compressed in an unknown format, and would be extremely hard to change over to the Japanese.
The ending video is in Japanese with Japanese subs, I assumed it would be soft-subbed like the rest of the game, but sadly it wasn't. There is a forum post with the English subs for you to read once you get there.
Now, some explanations as to why I can't fix these.
The two missing conversations, because they just plain don't exist in Japanese :)
The cutscene, and the ending video because as of now, there's no way to extract the audio from the PMF files used in Crisis Core, let alone re-compress them into a PMF that Crisis Core would be able to read. I could extract just the video (And in fact have done that) but have yet to find any way to extract the audio as well.
The DMW's are stored in ATEL files, which seems to be a zip-like format (A compressed file). Now, there's a LOT of things stored in these ATEL files, from subtitles, to DMW's, to what file to play when, so unless somebody had the specs on these files, or a way to extract them, there's not much I can do.
I hope that answers any further questions about the undub, if anyone comes up with anymore, I'll append to the end of this list :)

Raohkun (2008-03-26)

Thanks a lot guys for your work. It's so great to play in japanese voice.
For the things that you cannot fix, it's not important because the rest is perfect (just the ending video a little embarassing..)
I've heard that you will make another version (1.01..) with a bigger size, what's the difference?
Big respect to you!!

Drakia (2008-03-27)

This one is the new version with the bigger size, it fixes the video errors that were in the initial release.

randommolehole (2008-03-27)

SOOO COOL!! So drakia, will you be coming out with another version?

stherox (2008-03-28)

Anyway, thanx for the greatest work!!!
PS: Does anybody knows about similar project with Valkyrie Profile?

Drakia (2008-03-28)

Why.. would I be coming out with another version...? I explained exactly what is wrong with this release, and exactly why I can't solve said problems, so why even bother asking?

Raohkun (2008-03-28)

I think he speak about the bigger version, but not sure. Anyway thanks again)

Drakia (2008-03-28)

Drakia at 2008-03-26 20:17 CET:
This one is the new version with the bigger size, it fixes the video errors that were in the initial release.

randommolehole (2008-03-28)

well, you said that the ending is in jap but with jap subs, so is there a way to convert mp4 files to pmf? cause i came across this website that has the videos 'fan-subbed' in mp4 format. here's the link;

Drakia (2008-03-28)

Yes, the ending is jap with jap subs, I also posted why I can't change that.

Raohkun (2008-03-29)

Even if the ending is in jap, it's very easy to understand...great game!!

nntb (2008-04-01)

you should torrent the pmf files for the endings of both us and japanese... i could then convert it to english video japanese audio.
i make offical sony pmfs.

Drakia (2008-04-02)

Could you tell me how you can make sony PMF's?

Angeousa Q (2008-04-09)

Actually the voice acting etc are in separate files in those at3 files ATRAC3. and I believe the music is stored in somewhere as well. They all play at the same time synced with the videos.

Xaronyr_EnCardier (2009-03-22)

Hey Drakia I saw you being a n00b on another certain undub download and I thought you wasn't going to upload this?
Just asking anyway is there any chance of you releasing just the patch on its own please?
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