Modders - name changes?

[livden22]

Modders, I know you're out there!
I would love a simple mod that changes the names of the characters back to their original names.
I keep being thrown off by the name changes and would just enjoy the game so much more with the original names. If I knew how to code, I would change them myself. As it is, this is making me want to learn how to code. So even if you don't want to do it, if you could point me to the resources I need to learn to make the changes myself, I would greatly appreciate it!

[Ritsuka]

What names changed? they seem to be the originals to me

[Yami Houkai]

Originally posted by Ritsuka:

What names changed? they seem to be the originals to me

Yeah no, they changed some of the names.
Celia into Cecilia
Muffy into Molly
Cody into Gordy
Marlin into Matthew
etc

[funewchie]

Originally posted by Yami Houkai:

Originally posted by Ritsuka:

What names changed? they seem to be the originals to me

Yeah no, they changed some of the names.
Celia into Cecilia
Muffy into Molly
Cody into Gordy
Marlin into Matthew
etc

Which, at that, is just minor changes.
Cecilia's name just has an extra syllable added. (In Japan, her name is more like Sepiria)

Muffy is shortened form of Muffin, a nickname for the name Mary.
Molly is a pet form of the name Mary.
So her name either way roughly means the same thing: Mary or Maria.
(Unlike Japan, where her name is Mumu)

Marlin... okay, yeah, I have no idea where Natsume got that fishy name from in the original.
In Japan, his name is Masshu (or Mash).
Of which Matthew is remarkably close to that pronunciation.

A lot of NPCs names weren't even close to their Japanese ones, like Dr. Hardy instead of Dr. Baddoch.
Gary (formerly Galen) is known in Japan as Gari.
Lou... well, we knew her name had changed, because it had in Friends of Mineral Town.
(Which, fun fact: She was called Lou even in the original FoMT (GBA). Natsume forgot to change her name)

But overall, a lot of the old name were made up by the old publisher, and they needed to change them to be closer to the Japanese names, both because Marvelous wanted to, and also possibly for legal reasons.

[Yami Houkai]

Originally posted by funewchie:

Which, at that, is just minor changes.
Cecilia's name just has an extra syllable added. (In Japan, her name is more like Sepiria)

Muffy is shortened form of Muffin, a nickname for the name Mary.
Molly is a pet form of the name Mary.
So her name either way roughly means the same thing: Mary or Maria.
(Unlike Japan, where her name is Mumu)

Marlin... okay, yeah, I have no idea where Natsume got that fishy name from in the original.
In Japan, his name is Masshu (or Mash).
Of which Matthew is remarkably close to that pronunciation.

A lot of NPCs names weren't even close to their Japanese ones, like Dr. Hardy instead of Dr. Baddoch.
Gary (formerly Galen) is known in Japan as Gari.
Lou... well, we knew her name had changed, because it had in Friends of Mineral Town.
(Which, fun fact: She was called Lou even in the original FoMT (GBA). Natsume forgot to change her name)

But overall, a lot of the old name were made up by the old publisher, and they needed to change them to be closer to the Japanese names, both because Marvelous wanted to, and also possibly for legal reasons.

Yeah you are not wrong, but im not trying to complain about the name. I was fine with the current one. My point are only trying to say to that Ritsuka that some name did changed. Trying to claimed the name is original is wrong. Since most people trying to claim "original" as the EN version name, not the JP. People who trying to say it was closer to the JP original would mentioned it as "JP original", not just "original".
Its same like Ran name in SoS FoMT, people keep calling it different than the original and the people would defended it would claimed its the "JP original", not just a plain "original".

[Zrim]

I'm not an expert, but I look at the files and... the game file is one disc "file". So technically, you need to edit the raw game file, and you will be playing in the different (repack) version of the dics file with the edit. If there's an update for the game, then you need to repack again. It's quite different than creating a cheat engine for it. Overall, it seems tedious, unless some modder want to take that challenge and create an editor for it, I would applaud their effort.