Story and Cutscene Rewrite Mod (English) (Complete) v1.1.7

FAQ
Q. What source material was used to make this rewrite?
A. English localized text provided by the game when playing in English.
Q. Does this mod work with newer/earlier versions?
A. Yes, fully backwards compatible with earlier versions. If the game is a newer version, then only newly added text will display in Chinese only.

Description
This mod is primarily designed for those who do not understand the Chinese language (vocal) and want to experience an improved version of the story and cutscene content via rewritten English dialogue! I do not understand Chinese nor is this a machine translation. Every line has been rewritten (or improved upon), by taking the provided English translated dialogue and viewing of real scene footage to deliver a more understandable,, grammatically improved, and engaging story.

What this mod includes:
- Fully rewritten dialogue in English for all story quests and cutscenes. Including battle, and in-between quest story-based dialogue. When a rewrite was not required, dialogue was either rearranged or cleaned up to make better sense.
- Simplifies complex lore while remaining true and faithful to the original story and concepts so that it is easily understandable.
- Completely new dialogue has been injected into scenes that did not add any value to the story or lore (rare but they're there!). A few (although very minimal) number of jokes have been slightly modified, added or changed to better suit a western audience.
- There is a stronger on focus on emotions, although most are quite subtle, there are some scenes that are quite intense in both romantic and sad moments.
- Rare instances where dialogue made little to no sense at all has now been deciphered and explained!
- No more grammatical errors (if so, please report them on discord or here).
- Clean up of some text, including rogue "~" characters, excessive use of proceeding ellipsis and hashes, tried to add some more text consistency (like OK is now Okay). There will still be some left in there, but will look at cleaning it up as I work on it.
- Battle references are improved and is a work in progress as the chapters are worked through.

NOTE: This mod does NOT contain any explicit language and is safe for all audiences.
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HOW TO USE:
Extract contents to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\仙剑奇侠传七\Pal7\Content\Paks\~mods
(Make ~mods folder if it does not yet exist.)

You're done!

If you are using different versions of the game...
1. COPY (don't move else you will break your game) dat1-WindowsNoEditor.sig from the Content folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\仙剑奇侠传七\Pal7\Content\) and paste it into the ~mods folder.
2. Rename dat1-WindowsNoEditor.sig to ReLocaliseSF7Story_99_P.sig.
3. Load game.

My experience making this mod:
This game has an amazing and very cute story! Unfortunately, the English translation is somewhat poor, and many concepts and references are not well communicated. During my first few playthroughs, I generally felt the translation was understandable, but after spending countless hours analyzing each sentence, I realised very important character and story elements were either unclear or not impactful enough in order to work properly. Some examples would be the romance and jokes, you notice it's there, but its effectiveness is poorly executed. There is so much lore I never understood, jokes I never got, and romantic references that simply fall flat, but the intention from the original script is definitely there!

There were few severe instances where I had absolutely no clue what someone was trying to say, it simply made no sense at all! These were my greatest challenges, it required me to observe both the visual representation and vocal attributes of the characters in the scene, and the studying of preceding and post dialogue references. In few extreme cases, doing all of that was futile! In such instances I used my creative mind to formulate what was required to fit the situation and I was happy with the results (perhaps I even got it right!).

Other challenges were mostly technical, constant typos due to my bad keyboard, alt-tabbing and not being on the right screen, then inserting unwanted characters into the translation file, and lots of testing, which meant playing the supported chapters over and over again (on easy mode though!). During in-between quests and battles there are sometimes triggers that cause dialogue to spawn, I tried to capture most of it but oddly each playthrough did not spawn the same dialogue. You may run into some rare instances where dialogue has not been rewritten, feel free to report it.

Mod Download

https://www.nexusmods.com/swordandfairy7/mods/6

Preview Videos

[Mr.Hmm]

Understood, thanks for the reply :)

[funtimefreddy]

NOTE: I only update the nexusmods title, the description is not always updated. 1.1.6 has been out well before your post.

[funtimefreddy]

The mod is now 1.1.6. In the case it is a version behind, it will still work. But any new quests/dialogue added (unlikely at this stage), will only show in chinese.

[Mr.Hmm]

I know this is late but i want to say you have done great work, as someone who only knows Greek(native) and English(secondary) i am really thankful for people like you who take time and work hard to translate stuff.

I recently brought the game and my friend who played the game told me to download this mod because it fixes many translation issues but the latest game version is 1.1.6 and the mod is up to 1.1.5.

Can i download this mod and still do the part "If you are using different versions of the game" to have it work?

[funtimefreddy]

@TheDigitalJedi very kind words thank you.

[TheDigitalJedi]

It is contributors like yourself that help make the gaming community a great place. Your hard work and efforts are deeply appreciated. I agree with the previous poster. You definitely should receive more recognition for this amazing mod.

Thank you. :)

[funtimefreddy]

tyvm!

[Theresia]

This is incredible, playing through I noticed a lot of dialogue that had clearly been translated through AI and it was really hard to follow. Thanks for putting so much effort into this, you deserve more recognition