The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav Uncut Patch [Unlocks Easter Egg]

For whatever reason Daedalic decided to remove an Easter Egg from the Steam version. This guide was made so you can enjoy this game how every game should be enjoyed, UNCUT!

Special thanks to Marko [MarkoH01] from GOG without whom this wouldn't have been possible as he was the one to provide the necessary files from the disc version of this game!

If you don't know already I recommend not spoiling yourself by searching for it (there are videos about this infamous Easter Egg) as it will make it all the more funny by triggering it yourself.

Installation

During my testing I did not notice it having any impact on savegames, but if you want to be sure you can find your savegames by pressing Windows Key + R and type in: %appdata%
Now go into "username"/Appdata/Local/Daedalic Entertainment/Satinav/Savegames and make a backup!

Download the required files here[drive.google.com]
If you are having any problems with the download link please contact me.

Once you have the package downloaded unzip/extract it and it should look like this:

Open the folder that corresponds to the language you want to play in. Copy the data.vis file.

Note: This game only has german and english dub. The french and italian versions will be with english dub and corresponding subtitles! Interestingly there is also a spanish data.vis file on the DVD but I couldn't get it to work (it's just english with english subtitles) so it's not included in the download. Sadly the russian data.vis was not on Marko's DVD. Not sure if that's a distribution thing or if it was added with a revision later in the european market. Let me know if anyone has that so I can add that one aswell!

Now go to Steam, right click on the game and open properties like this:

Click on "Local Files" and "Browse..."

Paste the data.vis file you copied into your install directory and overwrite the existing file or remove it and save it somewhere as a backup.

Note: This will change/overwrite whatever language you have selected under steam properties. If you change the language under steam properties the game will re-download the data.vis file for the selected language. Making the UNCUT patch NOT work. In that case you'll have to copy over the data.vis AGAIN and this time copy the language you want to play with.

This patch also works if you already played through the game and want to give the Easter Egg a try. However you'll need to get to that specific scene obviously. Either by savegames or starting a new game and playing up until that point.

You should now have the UNCUT version of the game! Enjoy!

How to trigger the Easter Egg

This scene is relatively early in Chapter 2.

Click on the Curtain. Take the Puppet's Head. Close the Curtain! This is the only action NOT required by the game to progress in the story and is needed to trigger the Easter Egg!


Take off the lid from the Brass Cauldron. Use Puppet's Head with the Magnesium inside the Brass Cauldron.

To Trigger the Easter Egg you must now use the Puppet Head with Magnesium with the CLOSED Curtain. It should also work if you already put the ladder there since you can't remove it after it's already there.

The Easter Egg should now play. Nuri will walk over to Geron. The rest you'll have to find out yourself ;)

If you have any further questions let me know.

[eduonkhl]

@JanschD That's great news! I'd like to discuss something with you in private so I can rework the guide. Thanks in advance!

[JanschD]

I put a new patch together. No downgrade involved. The script is still in the game, but inaccessible. This patch fixes the script: http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/files/satinav_3.0.351.5517_uncut.exe Just apply it to the game folder.

[markoh00]

The game recently got updated and I am pretty sure the file needed for this easter-egg to work is not compatible anymore. The only way you'd still be able to use it would be if you have stored your old files and if you will find a way to start the old version without Steam (since Steam to my knowledge will auto update the game).

[MrFinnT]

doesnt work anymore i guess. tried DE and EN version and the game throws up an error
Failed to initialize the composed file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\TheDarkEye Cos\data.vis'. Invalid header.

[wengbo]

What the hell did I just watch? LOL

[jarekii]

OMG you're my maaan
That was VERY unexpected lol

[sku]

WELL I"LL BE