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EOV Voice Dub in EO Nexus Mod

Consider this a sort of follow-up to my Portrait mods from last month.

EOV Voice Dub in EO Nexus Mod

This mod takes the 40 selectable English voices from Etrian Odyssey V and transplants them into Etrian Odyssey Nexus. As Nexus has 60 voice slots, 20 remain as Japanese voices; the 8 'generic' voices which are mostly just grunts were all left alone.

I tried to reorganize them to most appropriately fit their previous 'name' from EOV. For example, Male Voice 16 in EOV was called 'Cheeky', and was assigned Male slot 3, 'Precocious' in Nexus. Some are more fitting than others. Some get to keep the same name (Sultry, Hearty, Militant, Timid). Probably the weakest fit was 'Strict' for the Granny voice (Elderly) from EOV.

This mod also 'removes' all voices for NPCs. Technically, what it does is instead play a silent file instead of their original lines. The music will still get quieter when they speak, but they won't actually say anything.

I ultimately had to make this a packed 'MORI' file, instead of an unpacked files, because while unpacked, it's about 8000 files across 4000 folders, which takes like two-and-a-half hours to move onto a 3DS. It's a bigger filesize this way, but it should only take ten minutes to put onto a 3DS, instead of 130. It's still compatible with other unpacked files, but it won't be with other packed files. Like before, I can't really go into the details of actually setting up a 3DS to be modded, but once you're there, it's not too complicated to get this working.

Now; Nexus and EOV have similar but not identical voice sets. In short, EOV lacks voices for successfully escaping, levelling up, anything Force related, and whatever 'GUEST and GUILD_SEL' are. Nexus lacks lines for waking up from sleep, Union-based stuff, and has less slots for taking L(arge) Damage.

For these cases I improvised with other existing EOV lines. Escaping reuses Avoid lines, Levelling uses Assigning Skill Point lines, Force Boosting uses a mix of Union lines and self-buff lines, and Force Breaks use their equivalent 'standard skill attack' versions. (ie. a Bind/Ailment-inflicting Force Break will use the same lines they'd use then using a Bind skill). Sometimes those might not actually be that great a fit, especially across 40 different voices.

Also, truth be told, I actually never found any way to actually open and play the .SSND files, nor can I actually understand Japanese. Both these factors made me more than a little blind going through this, so there's little to no way I know of to test the work other than to try it directly in game. Whether that makes this mod and the effort it took more impressive or just plain stupid is up to your discretion.

#etrian odyssey #etrian odyssey nexus #eon #eov

Portrait Mods for Etrian Odyssey Untold, 2U, and Nexus

I made portrait mods for the EO Untold games and Nexus. Each works a little differently for different reasons. I won't go too much into installing them here; there are instructions included in the files, but hopefully it's not too complicated.

EOU EOII Portraits

EO2U HD Portraits

EON HD Portraits

For Untold, it's a simple portrait swap with their more updated EOII forms, which I think brings them a little more in-line with other art in the game (ie. Frederica and the story party, Austin, etc.). Since this is basically just an extra-editted variant of TildeHat's Gladsheim/Gunner mod, it also lets you create Gunners and Highlanders, as well as access Gladsheim in Classic mode.

EO2U is probably the most complete and extensive of a change. Since EO2U's portrait DLC was on-cart DLC, it's accessed pretty easily (unlike Nexus, otherwise I'd've done it there, too). Basically, portraits 5-8 for classes would normally be EO1 art; it's now typically slot 5 being the EOII HD character, slots 6-7 being a rough EOIII HD equivalent, then 8+ being other stuff, like the Untold 1 cast, a couple Nexus recolours, and some random Mystery Dungeon throw-ins. Different classes have different numbers of 'bonus' portraits, which caused some complications. In its current form, it should be compatible with kyasarintsu's Hard Mode Mod (can't find a link, unfortunately). It also runs just fine without that.

Nexus is… a little complicated. Like Untold 1, it's an edit on top of Tildehat's mod; this time, one adding Alchemists and Buccaneer classes to the game. As the given portraits are kind of redundant with the portrait DLC, it gives a dozen or so 'free' slots for me to put portraits on. A number have been selected from the new HD portraits by default, with bias given to what might make sense specifically for Alchemist/Buccaneer, but instructions are given on how to replace/change them if you so want. The upside Nexus has is you can change portraits at will anytime, so it's not like you're hooped if you change your mind midway or install these mid-playthrough.

Speaking of Nexus though, I've also made a Voice Mod for it, that implants the EOV English voices into Nexus.

#etrian odyssey #etrian odyssey nexus #eon #EO2U #eou

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knebulanight

It's as if I can't ever have enough arthropod girls

mstr1892

アルケミストさん髪型迷宮すぎる。

goeppe

memewhore

thornsilver

Arg?

cameoappearance

Unrestrained summer fun

bonnettbee

Someone help him, the floor is broken

a-book-of-creatures

How it’s going for me

blue-corvid

*scooby doo running noises*

houseboundcentipede

ppl in the age of cell phones: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of books: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of textile art: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of picking lice: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of cooking: fucking up their necks

houseboundcentipede

in the age of keyboards: carpel tunnel

in the age of writing by hand: carpel tunnel

in the age of squeezing water out of wet clothes after cleaning them by hand: carpel tunnel

in the age of using hand-sized stone tools: carpel tunnel

notyourplayground

#besties i am starting to think the human skeletal system might just be trash (via @cicerfics)

you are not wrong bestie

angelasscribbles

creekfiend

I saw this on FB today and I wanna try and express something about it. Like, you know the curbcutter effect? Where when curbcuts are put in it benefits everyone (bicyclists, people with baby strollers etc) and not just disabled people?

There is also whatever the opposite of the curbcutter effect is. And this is that.

This isn't just anti-adhd/autism propaganda... this is anti-child propaganda.

Kids have developmentally appropriate ways that they need to move their bodies and express themselves and sitting perfectly still staring straight ahead is not natural or good for ANY CHILD.

Don't get me wrong, I was punished unduly as a kid for being neurodivergent (and other types of kid will ALSO be punished unduly for it... Black kids come to mind) and thus UNABLE to perform this -- but even the kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED WELL by it. They don't benefit from it.

This is bad for everyone.

The idea that bc some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don't hurt them... is a dangerous idea. Compliance isn't thriving. Expectation of compliance isn't fair treatment.

neurodiversitysci

The image above expresses the attitude towards children I grew up with, in a fairly conservative United States suburb in the 1990′s. Expectations for children’s behavior were strict, and when children failed to meet them, their parents were blamed publicly and privately, to a traumatizing degree.

When I went to the Kids R Us, Toys R Us, even the supermarket I constantly heard parents yelling and nagging at their kids over virtually nothing, and telling them not to cry. Kids had their own segregated food (unhealthy, tasteless fast food and pizza), clothing, and activities (full of plastic junk toys and meaningless crafts that would get thrown out the day they were made).

Parenting advice was everywhere, in grocery checkout aisles and doctor’s waiting rooms, with the format “push button, receive behavior” and the goal of making kids do what you wanted easily, without conflict. It drove my mom frantic that it never worked for neurodivergent kids like hers.

In school, we had to get permission to go to the bathroom. I’ll never forget nearly wetting myself for a half an hour waiting for the kids with the passes to return. I learned that even my most basic basic bodily needs were unimportant and unacceptable.

No one seemed to think kids were actual people, and the segregation and contempt pissed me off even when I was young enough to use a kid’s menu. The anger and hurt are still there, under the surface.

And yes, I was one of those kids who couldn’t focus on busywork or stand in line for a long time. I’d wander off to dance or draw or I’d just let my imagination wander, “zoning out.” It’s the same old story everyone in neurodivergent communities hears ad infinitum.

Meanwhile, I was told, and I believed, that school was designed for all the other kids, who seemed to do what was expected without struggle. Many of them even seemed content with school and life. It made me feel even worse about myself. I didn’t understand that they were suffering, too, until I saw my generation and then Gen Z going through the resulting mental health crisis.

Somehow, I never realized that strict expectations that require kids to go against their own needs, that teach kids their basic needs don’t matter, are a reverse curb cut effect.

“Even kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED well by it...the idea that because some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don’t hurt them, is a dangerous idea.”

Yes. All kids deserve better.

Neurodivergent ones are just the canary in the coal mine. Things that hurt neurodivergent kids, tend to be bad for everyone.

Thank you for pointing this out, OP.

blue-corvid

Schools will be like “sit still and be quiet for seven hours a day, mandatory miserable gym classes, no recess anymore that’s for LITTLE kids, go home and sit down and do three hours of homework, wow have you noticed how sedentary everybody is these days? probably a moral failing.”