[Updated] Help in making an proper mod for Dualshock 4 controller icons

[Surihix]

An primer on the PC port's controller support:
The game doesn't load in Dualshock 4 icons in the PC port no matter how you connect the controller to the PC. This leads me to believe the game only has a single set of controller button prompt icons which is Xbox based and only that icon set will load in at all times even when no controller is connected.

Next issue is the voice over based guiding of ADA which has her telling you the controller buttons to press and stuff during gameplay. This I think is partly the reason why the game doesn't have any other button prompts even for Keyboard and Mouse as well.

Since the devs will have to create another set of ADA's voice overs guiding for a different set of controls i.e Keyboard and Mouse, they took the easy and fast approach of using just the HD collection's Xbox 360 controller voice overs for the PC port.

This is straight up laziness, but considering the publisher and other time constraints the devs may have been forced to endure to get the PC port out, they mostly took the right call for this.

Unfortunately the PC port ended up having a locked in set of controls and even if you connect another controller or play with Keyboard and Mouse, the game will continue to load in the Xbox based controller prompts and play the guiding voice overs of that.



My solution and progress so far:
My solution to this problem is to dump the PS4 version's game files and take the necessary voice over and the button icon files from it and replace the PC version's game files with them. this way we can get proper Dualshock 4 controller support.

But this approach has its own set of problems and is mostly tedious.
Now most of the archive files and their format are the same as how it is in the PC version, but the audio files are the ones that are numbered a bit differently.
So you have to hear all the voice over files and then match them with the PC version. This is a tedious process and it gets a bit more tedious if you want this to work with the Haidara JPN voice over mod.

For now I am checking and collecting the English version PS4 audio files and will later be moving to the JPN version PS4 audio files.



Where I need Help:
So far I am only able to check and open the audio files in foobar and I don't know how to open the .DAT, .pac, and the .pack archive files, so that I can actually add the icons and replace the necessary subtitle text as well.

What I need help from somebody here will be information or an method on how to extract the game's archive files, information on what each of the archive files contain, how to view the texture and button files stored inside it as well as repackaging the extracted archive files.

[Surihix]

Things are going well with the DS4 icon mod. I have successfully managed to get the game to load in DS4 icons in all of the menus and in the training mode as well.
For now I need to patch in some specific DS4 button icons that appears in certain parts of the main campaign and that will require me to replay the story once again and patch them.
I will update this thread once an all icons replaced version of the mod is done and ready on nexus.

The audio patching will take some more time. the English voice over version will be releasing first and later the Japanese voice over version. the latter will take some more time but will also be done eventually.

Subtitles for the button voice guiding will probably be done last once the icons and the audio work is complete.

[Surihix]

The mod is finally up on nexus.
https://www.nexusmods.com/zoneoftheendersthe2ndrunnermars/mods/3

[Surihix]

ADA's English voice overs for the Playstation button prompts is now added to the 2.0 version my mod.

[Surihix]

ADA's Japanese voice overs for the Playstation button prompts is now added to the 4.0 version of my mod. this was designed mainly with the Haidara mod in mind and it makes sure that ADA's voice overs will still refer to the correct Playstation buttons if that mod is installed.

With this update, I can happily say that I have completed what I had set out do with this mod. I will of course fix bugs i.e textures or audio that I may have missed in patching out if found and reported by the users.

I did try adding support for other languages, but unfortunately can't do so due to me not understanding the languages. If someone is interested in doing that for their language, then feel free to hit me up and I can guide you with the process as well as provide you the files if needed.