Rename for those who wants it

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

For those interested I have just uploaded a rename mod for FwB 1.10 on f95

I will not provide link to at least try not to get into trouble but know it exists.

My rename mod can be found:
V1.01 on page 22 3ed post from the bottem
V1.10 on page 27 5th post from the top

[Jeruzalem]

im sure you are free to link it on guides. im not known with f95, is that used alot for such games?

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

It's more i don't want ti link to F95 becouse it's kind of a underground site. There are things there that may not go over well with valve

Just search "Friendship with Benefits f95" and you'll find it on page 27

[davidb11]

I've heard and seen people talk on the forums of f95, and I can agree with your statement on it being a bit over the top for Steam. :P

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

true but tbh, since the ponies look slighty different and for example "apple bloom" and "apple jack" are reversed (so the little sister has AJ looks and the big sister ABs) it kind of gets weird

i mean what is weirder, a pinkie pie that is white with yellow hair or a pinkie pie that is not part of the elements...... xD

and i guess once u played trough with the names as they are, changing them now makes it just more confusing..... still nice though ^^

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

Like it says it's for those who wants it... I used it in FwB 1.01 (you can find the rename for versions 1.01 on page 22 but i have plans of redoing that one) and sins i already comited to completing the mod 1 time i'm planing to keep it up for the peapol who wants is

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

well, i wasn't complaining....really i might play it again with that mod even, so kudos for making that..... (seeing how many files u had to edit just for that is kind of hard xD)

just wonder how the modding works cause i ended mingling in the files of the game myself, prolly the root files placed are loaded instead of the one in actual game file? well guess i have to read up.....

but looking at your mod, it seems fairly easy to mod compared to other games xD

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

Yes just have to go thrue ALOT of text sins its actially a simple Find and Replace job the thing is I toke it 1 step further in the 1.10 version instead of just changing all Lily to Twilight Sparkle I looked at each senario and decided if I shude make it Twilight Sparkle or just Twilight.

Some character where simpler i just hade to keep me eye out incase some one stuterd there name (keeping Lily as example) would look weird if someone said L...Twilight instead of T...Twilight.

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

Well sometimes they used nicknames as well i think? Like Mox instead of Moxie or so....

translation aside, i wanted to see how you change the sounds/music or even the sprites
prolly just have to set proper path in init file, then again do i need to have the unedited files in the folder then as well or just the edited ones? or does the game automaticly loads them if placed in folder in root dir? So many questions!

Aside from AJ and AB being switched, i wanted to see if i can plug in some different BGM (prolly not public cause u know, original MLP stuff) and wanted to try to recolor riku, that sunburn must really hurt xD

or even gothic-fy a character or stuff like that, heck u could even make own random dialogue of moxie in the evening/morning..or add an own vaiant of the church service.....

so many possibilities! :D


(then again since a recolor means changing original artwork and kinda republishing them i should prolly ask before making such thing public as well xD)

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

It is my belive if you unpack the archive.rpa file and just override the image files it will rather go for the unpacked files then the files packed in the archive.rpa.

Atleast that is what i did. I unpacked the Archive.rpa removed all files i didn't need (any *.rpy file that didn't contain a name, images, sound so on) and then just when thrue each file and changed the names. The renamed.rpy how ever was started by another person who started doing the rename of an earlier version but never finished I just continued to build on it.

Also If you planing to make a total convetion of the images you might want to look at the images of FwB 1.01 at F95 and se what you can salavage as MOST characher looked more like the mlp charachers in version 1.01

(yea you probobly shude and make sure you don't have more then the files you edit in the mod you release that way ppl nead to get the actuall game to use it)

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

HOW EVER keep in mind tha changing charecters images might make some descriptions ingame weird... I mean Riku wouldn't be a Red pony with heterochromia anymore :P

Also another con with a mod like mine that edit the scource files is that anytime thers is an update you have to redo the work on the updated files other wise ther update disappears

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

Originally posted by Shizuka Na Ikaku:

HOW EVER keep in mind tha changing charecters images might make some descriptions ingame weird... I mean Riku wouldn't be a Red pony with heterochromia anymore :P

Also another con with a mod like mine that edit the scource files is that anytime thers is an update you have to redo the work on the updated files other wise ther update disappears

yh true, need to edit dialogue anyway


and yeah figured, even if you do a translation, so if the update would dissapear, i guess my hunch was right that the game simply loads the modded files in root over the one in the game file, does it do that by default or do you had to set some stuff in the init file? (havent looked into the file much yet xD)

well the thing is, i can imagine about the rpy files getting directly loaded but the images? and even if i create an "images" folder like it was in the archive file.... dunno if that will load properly, guess i just have to do trial and error cause im way too lazy to read stuff up(who reads manuals anyway)

and well will look into thr 1.01 version then, but need to make an account there then ugh.... (yes i never used f95 before, scary! xD)

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

Other then the *.rpy files i haven't edited anything in the game so it loaded the root files by default. I had no idea what i was doing when i started working on the Rename mod it was the my first time messing Renpy :P so i'm not 100% how everything work but i have little background scripting and programing so i did add a small feature in FwB 1.01 just as a test.

I made my F95 account back in 2018 i havn't hade any problems i'm mostly there for the indy games.

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

small feature? like?
and well for some reason i coucln't find the 1.01 there but found it elsewhere, anyway.... saves alot of work for me personally.... given how many images i would have to edit xD

will just test it out then..... ^^

[Shizuka Na Ikaku]

the Rename mod for FwB 1.01 is on page 22 near the bottem of the FwB 1.01 game topic on F95

And it was just a small thing that after you find out the Spa ponies names they are some time reffered to by name during sex instead of just the greymare and the whitemare

[Shino "Sinon" Asada]

ah ^^