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Fire Emblem Engage Uncensored Patch

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This is Fire Emblem Engage Uncensored Patch's thread where the patch is distributed and we talk about it.
cris1010

cris1010

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Fire Emblem Engage was heavily censored in the English release​

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-The official localization was full of censored words/topics, romance deleted from multiple characters, shitty dialogue that disrupted the tone, random fetishes added, and whole conversations completely changed or censored (especially support conversations), these malicious changes cause inconsistencies in the script and even erase some of the characters' purposes and personalities.

-This patch is NOT a complete rewrite (that would take years) and focuses on censorship, trying to bring the English script closer to the original one.

-Even if the patch is complete we would appreciate bug testing, proofreading, informing us about anything that is censored or poorly translated that we've missed! And in the future, we'd like to translate the patch into other languages, so if you want to help bringing the patch into your language, don't hesitate to contact us. (There is a small group currently translating this patch to Spanish and they are recruiting)

The Uncensor Patch is now complete, as all the the files except chapter related ones have been checked.​


Full list of content checked:​

This is a "brief" list of all the revised content: (The amount of censored lines through these files was big)
-All supports including DLC
-All wake-ups including DLC (You can check the supports and wake-ups lines in this spreadsheet)
-All emblem bonds including DLC
-All MC paired endings including DLC
-All files related to the Somniel
-All files related to the Allynotebook
-Tiki and Camilla's Divine Paralogue
-Some changes for the main menu related to Character selection and changed difficulty "Maddening" to "Lunatic".
-Some changes to Chapters 4, 7, 9 and 16. (Story related files are not revised, these changes were done thanks to people bringing them up)
-All memento item lines. (Almost all of them censored)
-All S-birthday gift lines including DLC.
-A lot of other lines that only trigger with the S-character in the Somniel uncensored.

I want to highlight some individual changes because lmao:
-Removed all the furry shit related to Pandreo from the game.
-Changed a lot of lines from Goldmary related to lvlup, change class, etc... (Goldmary took the heavier censorship hit).
-Added Fogado lines about not knowing how to swim or wanting to learn. (In fact, Fogado will not swim if u use him in the pool affinity thingy)

-All the files are compressed like the original ones.


I lately discovered that some voice lines from the "ring cleaning" mechanic are censored when using the english VA. (24/8/23)

You can take a look at the changelogs for detailed info about all the changes.

Changelog: Final V2.0 out! (16/06/2023) | Version for Cobalt(29/09/2023)​

- All S-supports.
- All S-wakeups.
- All Anna, Rosado and Louis supports.
- A few supports from Goldmary and from Framme.
- Tiki's Divine Paralogue.
- Chapter 4 Battle: Celine lines about Celica emblem.
- Lucina emblem supports with Goldmary and Framme.

- A lot of typos fixed.
- Even more typos fixed in v1.2.
- Alear-Framme support bug/crash fixed.
- Goldmary-Vander support fixed.
- Goldmary-Alear C,B,A supports. (S was already in).
- Hortensia-Alear C,B,A supports. (S was already in).
- A few Veyre lines in Chapter 9.
- A few awkward phrasing in Etie-Goldmary, Lucina-Goldmary and Ivy-Alear supports fixed.

- Finally checked all patch files for typos (this took a lot of time... but I can focus in new things now).
- All MC paired endings (the censorship in these ones was big) and all regular character endings.
- Fixed a few awkward phrasing in some supports that I found while fixing typos.

- All Goldmary, Hortensia, Framme, Chloe and Celine regular supports including all their wakeups left.
-A few Veyre regular supports and all her Wakeups.
-Changed Louis personal skill name from "Admiration" to "Flower Garden's Gatekepeer".

PD: Skill names are handled by "skill.bytes.bundle" file, any other mod that modify this file is not compatible (I know a few). The best solution to avoid incompatibilities is deleting "skill.bytes.bundle" file from the patch (is only used for the Louis skill name change), I also believe this file is prone to be incompatible with other game updates.

All Jean, Clanne, Fogado, Etie, Veyre and Lapis regular supports including all their wakeups left. (We reach 60% of the regular supports done in V1.5!)
Corrected 2 lines Framme_Clanne C support. (thx to Kyonko802 for noticing this one)
Goldmary: Lvlups, class change, bondlvlup, in battle and post battle lobby texts lines from Goldmary. (Almost all lines from Goldmary were censored or changed wtf)
Changed "Maddening" to "Lunatic" in the difficulty selection menu.
Changed any mention of "form"/"body type" to "sex" in character creation (BIG FUCK YOU TO THE RETARDS PUSHING THIS)
Changed "English (North America)" to "Uncensored English (NA)" in the language settings so players don't get confused.

Release post explaining more details

All the supports and wake-ups are DONE (Probably the biggest update for this patch, which now has more than 250 files!)
Chapter 7 and 16: Changed some lines from Goldmary and Rosado.
Chapter 12: Changed a few Pandreo lines.

Release post explaining more details

All the new FXen DLC MC related supports and wake-ups.
All memento item lines including the ones from the new FXen DLC characters. (You can find this at the table near your bed after giving the ring to someone)
All FXen DLC new MC paired endings and regular endings.
Changed "Maddening" to "Lunatic" in the FXen DLC difficulty selection menu.
All S-birthday "regular gifts" lines including FXen DLC characters. (You can only see this lines if you gift something to your S-character in their actual birthday)

Release post explaining more details

All Emblem bond supports. (Each bond file have 288 lines and each bond Ex file have 40 lines...)
Fixed Louis-jade C support line nº16 to be more accurate.
Fixed 2 lines from Nel S-wakeup to be more accurate.
Fixed Zelestia A support line nº19 to be more accurate.
Fixed MC-Bunet A support line nº16 to be more accurate.
Fixed Tiki Paralogue lines when she refers to Marth.

Release post with a detailed list of the lines censored.

All the regular supports from FXen DLC.
All the files are compressed now. (It took me a lot...)

With 1.9 all tasks in the spreadsheet are completed! (This doesn't mean that all the game is uncensored, there are parts still not checked)

This will probably be the last version for the patch, as all the text files except the chapter files have been checked.

Files included or modified in this version:
Hubcommon
Hubcommon_p0
Hubcommon_p1
Hubcommon_p3
Person
Battletalk_ex
Accessories
Friendlist
Friendlist_ex
Hubdinner
KizunaResult
KizunaResult_Ex
Lvlup
Patch3
E006 (I only checked the "death quotes", as someone told me that they found some lines that were different, and they were right!)
G005 (Camilla Paralogue, because I knew I would find censorship)

Release post with a detailed list of the lines censored.

MODDING TUTORIAL: How to extract, modify and import back game files. (Not related to patch install)​

First you need UABEA(https://github.com/nesrak1/UABEA/releases/tag/v5 make sure to download the nightly build at the top) to open .bundle files, when you open an original file it will ask to open it in a "FILE" or in "MEMORY", select "FILE" and it will create a new file to not modify the original, you will need this file later, then after this click the "Info" btn and then select the "TextAsset" element, click "Plugins" btn and then "extract.txt" option.

It will extract a text file but in order to not ruin the file's hex bytes/pointers u need to use (MSBTeditor) https://github.com/IcySon55/3DLandMSBTeditor/releases to modify it(Make sure to click "All files" when searching with MSBT to be able to see the files).
Editing is as easy as changing the text directly (you dont need to know hex) but you need to be careful about this little thing, for example this is an original entry:
before.jpg
As you can see almost all the entries end in 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 or 04 00 02 00 00 00 00 00.

But when you edit any entry or even press anything like Ctrl+C the last part cuts out to 04 00 00 00 (or 04 00 02 00 00 00) like you see in the image below and you need to change this back to the original numbers after your done editing that entry or it will cause a duplicate text bug ingame.
after.jpg
When you're done, open the file that you created at the start with UABEA and repeat the first step but now selecting the "import.txt" option and after that you have to save, close that bigger tab and save again as shown in the images below.
save.jpgsave2.jpg

It will save the changes in a new file which needs to be renamed like the original .bundle file in order to work. After all this you have to create a folder structure like in the original files.(You can look at my mod's folder structure as reference)

You can use emulators to extract the game files and the dlcs/updates files, for example in Ryujinx just right click the game and select "Extract Data" and then "RomFS".

PD: We recommend 48 characters max per line and 2 lines max in regular support files so the text looks good in the text box, if you put more characters the text will get "squished".

Patch install and compatibility​

The patch should work in Ryujinx, CFW Switch and Yuzu, patch install (non Cobalt version) is as simple as drag n drop the files in the mods folder.
We recommend playing in the latest update (v2.0), the patch is compatible with current save files, so you don't need to start over.
In order for the patch to work you need to select the "English (NA)" text setting in-game.
The patch only edit files inside "fe_assets_message/us/usen" folder, every file is independent so if you don't like something from the patch like for example Celine supports, you can just delete those files and enjoy the rest.
NEW: Now we have a version compatible with Cobalt, but installation is a bit different, you can find everything you need on their wiki. (Updated to Cobalt .txt new format)

Please, always back-up your save files when playing with mods.

Contributors:​

-Cris1010
-Stazi for starting all this with me and helping with the patch.
-Kyonko802 for solving some doubts and contacting me to come here.
-Brazio for solving some doubts.
-Ene for their reference images showing the censorship.
-Other amazing people that wanted to remain anonymous due to all the schizos out there.

And also thanks to the creators of UABEA and 3DLandMSBTeditor for their amazing tools.
Thank you for reading this, I hope you enjoy the game! I also want to thank everyone in Varis for welcoming the patch here!
 

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Prin

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The effort making an uncensored patch is much appreciated.

I made an account specifically to ask this; is there a simple way to repack the dumped game files into .nsp or .xci to use with Switch emulators?
 
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momowater

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Really appreciate this, I just want to read all the text as it was written in the released product in Japan and not filtered through the purity test of people I will never meet. The people trying to prune translations to dialogue already in the game have lost their minds.
 
kitsuneboy

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V1.2 description on Gamebanana: Anna and Jean - Alear supports and wakeups removed by admin petition invoking R.13

So is this V1.2 download link also removing that supports and wakeups line or the file in here is totally uncensored without gamebanana dictatorship rule?
 
kitsuneboy

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SuccuCirno said:
The fact that Varis has to serve as a mod hosting venue just serves as a reminder to how deep the censorious zoomer rot goes.

The slippery slope has slid so far that even mod hosting sites are run by antis.
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Prolly the same Japanese haters that makes Pikamee "Graduate"

p.s. My account was suspended from commenting in gamebanana just for posting meme about mod lol, they are going full CCP there
 
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OCG

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SuccuCirno said:
The fact that Varis has to serve as a mod hosting venue just serves as a reminder to how deep the censorious zoomer rot goes.

The slippery slope has slid so far that even mod hosting sites are run by antis.
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I don't understand when did such content even become problematic and why.
I have been on the internet for decades and only relatively recently did I notice that a group of people who seems to be in minority by numbers but holds the position of power is targeting anything that is against their personal views - even when only a text mod is involved.
It's absolutely pathetic how these people are invested in acting as some sort of moral police for fiction.
 
Battington87

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Chopin said:
I'm receiving the following error message on loading the game on a hacked Switch:

"Panic occured while running Atmosphere.

Title ID: 010041544D530000
Error: DABRT (0x101)"

The game loads normally when I remove the patch from the /contents/ folder. Any idea what the issue here might be? I found a reference to this same error from several years ago, but they chalked it up to some quirk of Atmosphere that's supposed to have been patched already.
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Have you updated Atmosphere to the latest version? if not then that's why that error appears
 
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BrokenScript

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cris1010 said:
While the main goal of the Uncensor patch is already accomplished this patch is still a work in progress as there are a lot of C, B and A supports, paired endings short text and other things to check for censoring. -We would appreciate feedback from bugtesting, proofreading and informing us about any other parts of the english script that are censored and we missed!
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It would probably help to have a full log of exactly what has been checked and what hasn't. Also, as a general rule, it would be best to start with C supports and work forward, instead of working backwards from S supports, since preceding events will inform the context of later events.
In any case, some things that don't appear to have been addressed, from the top of my head:
- Basically all Goldmary supports need to be checked, as the localisation team really hated how she talks about femininity and attractiveness and so on. Rewrites for her were very common, both across bonds and supports. Her bonds with Leif are one example, and her supports with Yunaka are another.
- Similarly, Panette and Timerra have many conversations relating to femininity which were rewritten. One Timerra support with Framme has their discussion about clothing changed, for example.
- Fogado had lines relating to hitting on Alear written out of his supports.
- I kept a notebook of text to reference myself later regarding changes, which I haven't gotten around to doing yet. I can't remember what these were relating to, but here are some of the examples I noted to myself as warranting checks, which haven't been covered yet: Alear x Ivy B support, Clanne's wakeup lines.
- Also, there's the matter of several characters arbitrarily having their names changed in the localisation. Mystira -> Timerra, for example. If the patch wants to serve as a proper retranslation as the end goal, I think reverting these changes would also be worth doing.

Honestly I think the most sensible course of action is to do a full TLC on every support on the game, as time consuming as it would be. There's simply too much that Treehouse fucked with to assume that anything wasn't touched.
 
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