MOD - Uncensored Celes torture scene

[Hydra Spectre]

As you may know, there is a scene in the GBA, iOS, Android and PC versions in which Celes is insulted by guards in a prison in South Figaro.
In the SNES and PS1 versions, she was being beaten up by the guards rather than being merely insulted.
Square Enix censored this scene in the Advance version to get an A (the Japanese video game equivalent of an E) rating from CERO (the Japanese equivalent of the ESRB) rather than a B (equivalent to T) rating for the Game Boy Advance versions.

But Novalia Spirit over at Romhacking.net did a ROM hack to restore the uncensored scene to any GBA version. The hack is called General Violence.
Now you're all wondering, how would a GBA hack be a mod for the PC version.

The .obb file which has all of the data for the game has a file called rom.bin within the /misc subfolder. It is a Japanese ROM for Final Fantasy VI Advance. I tried it on an emulator and it works.

I applied the Japanese version (there is one version each for the Japanese, European and USA ROMs) General Violence hack to the rom.bin and it works properly.

I won't be posting the .fep patch so no copyrighted material will be redistributed.

And, for comparison:
SNES US version (yes, it's the uncensored version in the SNES despite Nintendo's censorship policies):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEEeWfxFAU
GBA Japan version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXo5_3iQtsE

Requirements:
General Violence patch: Download[www.romhacking.net]
Lunar IPS: Download[www.romhacking.net]
FFVI Explore: Download

1. Install Lunar IPS and FFVI Explore if you haven't already.
2. Open FFVI Explore and open the main.obb file in the Final Fantasy VI directory.
3. Extract misc/rom.bin, rom.bin will show up in a new subfolder in the FF6 folder called misc.
4. Extract the General Violence patch inside the misc subfolder.
5. Open Lunar IPS and select ff6_gba_j_violence.ips inside the misc subfolder. Do NOT use any other file like ff6_gba_u_violence.ips or ff6_gba_e_violence.ips, ff6_gba_j_violence.ips is the only one that will work.
6. Click the dropdown and change "Most Common ROM Files" to "All files".
7. Select rom.bin in the misc subfolder.
8. Go back to FFVI Explore, go to "Patch" and drag the newly patched rom.bin file there.
9. Rename rom.bin to misc/rom.bin and click "Apply Patch". You don't need to save patch but it is recommended in case you want to install FFVI on another PC or if you reinstall the game.
10. It should work and if it does, congratulations! Now enjoy your newly patched game.

In case the previous method doesn't work, try this method:

1. Install Lunar IPS and FFVI Explore if you haven't already.
2. Open FFVI Explore and open the main.obb file in the Final Fantasy VI directory.
3. Extract misc/rom.bin, rom.bin will show up in a new subfolder in the FF6 folder called misc.
4. Extract the General Violence patch inside the misc subfolder.
5. Set your PC settings to show filename extensions if you haven't already.
6. Rename rom.bin to (whatever).gba ((whatever) can be any name, I prefer temporaryrom, but it has to have the filename extension .gba)
7. Open Lunar IPS and select ff6_gba_j_violence.ips inside the misc subfolder. Do NOT use any other file like ff6_gba_u_violence.ips or ff6_gba_e_violence.ips, ff6_gba_j_violence.ips is the only one that will work.
8. Select (whatever).gba in the misc subfolder.
9. Rename the now-patched (whatever).gba back to rom.bin.
10. Go back to FFVI Explore, go to "Patch" and drag the newly patched rom.bin file there.
11. Rename rom.bin to misc/rom.bin and click "Apply Patch". You don't need to save patch but it is recommended in case you want to install FFVI on another PC or if you reinstall the game.
12. It should work and if it does, congratulations! Now enjoy your newly patched game.

[Axiphel]

Didn't work. Trying again. ~.~

Yea still didn't work. :'( Oh well such a short scene anyway.

[Heinrich6745]

I did everything that the instructions said but i cannot apply the patch on the last step anybody have ideas?
http://i.imgur.com/baxkQnE.jpg

[Hydra Spectre]

Updated with alternate instructions, more emphasis on important parts and a comparison between the censored and uncensored versions.

[Tracido]

Цитата допису Swift S. Lawliet:

Updated with alternate instructions, more emphasis on important parts and a comparison between the censored and uncensored versions.

Omg that was a bit tricky to follow coming into it outa nowhere but I patched it sucessfully and will update once I get there, thank you so much for the fix, either way..

[Tracido]

Цитата допису Swift S. Lawliet:

Updated with alternate instructions, more emphasis on important parts and a comparison between the censored and uncensored versions.

Oh well, nothing worked as it was supposed to & I even did BOTH entire steps separately, both completed without issues but no in game change... that was not at all the scene I remembered, sigh..

Цитата допису Heinrich6745:

I did everything that the instructions said but i cannot apply the patch on the last step anybody have ideas?
http://i.imgur.com/baxkQnE.jpg

Even if it patches, you may have absolutey no difference when it works. Which is my situation, hah..

Цитата допису Madsiur:

Цитата допису pluckylump:

The obb has a remade sprite for Celes chained to the wall. It is not part of Celes's sprite sheet, but it is there.

It's tagged in my sprite thread. Char41.bmp

Thanks! That will help me test the NPC sprite change. Does anyone has a save file at the scenarios choosing screen he could send me?

Also, Saftle thread is a good idea: people should contribute to sending savefile of various points in the game, for graphical modding or modding in general. I'm not trying to tell what people should do, but it does speed up the modding process, at least for people like me who haven't made a complete playthrough yet.

Also, I have a quicksave at the stairs, just would need somewhere I can send it..

[TheNoob462]

FFVI Explore link is broken! :(

[Zeikar]

Can't do the mod, can't get FFVI Explore :'(

[Zeikar]

I found it! I found FFVI Explore
http://www.ff6hacking.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ff6a:utils

[Spooniest]

Ok I think this time I did it right. Let's go see Celly get beet a bit

Celes: I'm a general, not som opera floozy like Spoony

[Spooniest]

I could swear I followed the instructions. I've never been a fan of torture. I've read Ken Follet's "Jackdaws," this stuff happened in the War. Authenticity...!....... I give up. Beating women is wrong. We all should be ashamed of ourselves. I'm putting on Wings At The Speed Of Sound. Peace out.

[Zeikar]

I cannot get this working!!

[EnforcerRidley]

I'm unable to get this to work.

What's the cutscene supposed to look like when it works?

[The One True Nate]

Like this:
https://youtu.be/HjEEeWfxFAU

[Zeikar]

Цитата допису The One True Nate:

Like this:
https://youtu.be/HjEEeWfxFAU

No if the mod worked it would look more like the SNES version. The mod doesn't work because it was released before a patch and then the mod was never updated or adjusted to work post patch, that or couldn't be made to work post patch by the author. Either that or a step is missing or something. I've tried to install it countless times following the method in the OP and still the scene remained censored like the GBA version and didn't become uncensored like the SNES original version. You really need to understand what the OP says and what that user said The One True Nate. He asked what it would look like with the mod working and it that would be closer to SNES uncensored scene not the original censored GBA scene.

[EnforcerRidley]

Thank you for your reply.

I have attempted to replace the Rom file with the Rom the patch requires, which works with some sound issues (BGM not playing when Sabin battles Kefka during the chase to stop him from poisoning the Doma River), then patched it with OP's patch, but to no avail; the scene was still censored.