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[cavydude]

Baten Kaitos Remaster English Dub Mod now Patched for PC

Those of you who have attempted to use the pre-existing Switch mod to restore the original English voice acting to the Steam release may have run into the following problems:

Text-audio desyncing if you don't import the text bundles from the Switch mod

The game not booting at all if you do try to use those text bundles

A year after the Steam release, I noticed that no one else seems to have gotten around to fixing this problem, so I went ahead and did it myself. The only issue with those Switch text bundles was a few text entries around keyboard controls that don't exist in the Switch version, so all I had to do was add those into the existing files.

If you already have the audio files and just want to PC-compatible text bundles, those can be found here.

I've also upload the complete mod with both the audio files and the text bundles to Nexus.

[cavydude]

Finally got around to uploading some modding tools I wrote

I wrote a few Python scripts last year for modding the PC release of the Baten Kaitos remaster, "got busy" (as we all do) and well here we are almost a year later.

So yeah, there are three different scripts for:

Modifying enemy stats and drops (EW only)

Modifying game text (add yikes in even more places to troll the culture war crowd)

Swap out magnus images (EW only)

Feel free to use these however you like to make mods of your own or just to screw around in your own game. Even if you don't know programming, if you can run stuff from a command line you should be able to use these to create mods.

Here's the link [Github]

[cavydude]

Nothing to see here just normal Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean gameplay

[cavydude]

So here's how the pc version hax are going.

I wrote a quick lil python script that edits enemy data in BK1, since that's stored in the Unity bundles it's super easy to edit. You'll notice here that:

Shawras now have a weakness to light

Splendid hair is now a guaranteed drop from each one

They drop a photo of Sibling God: Bo when photographed (I actually fucked up the id there I wanted it to be Mega-Rare Mizuti)

Random drops are other OP late-game swords :D

Another dev also wrote a similar script for the magnus data, so we can edit magnus aging, atk/def, and even fix that annoying bug where it won't let you sell the debt magnus.

All of this, at least for me, is with the end goal of making a randomizer. Unfortunately, there's still a long way to go for things that are directly coded into the binary such as:

Quest Magnus

Chests

Starting decks

Character stats (probably)

[cavydude]

While I still have some time and motivation for Baten Kaitos modding, which would you guys rather have/use?

Magnus/Enemy stats/Drops randomizer

GUI Magnus Editor

Probably wouldn't use either but both sound cool

Voting ended onAug 7, 2025

Both of these would be for Eternal Wings on the PC version of the remaster (although if you have a hacked Switch then in theory it should work since the files are the same). This is because EW stores a lot of data in a way that's much easier to modify than Origins does. Explanations under the cut.

Randomizer:

There are two sets of data that could be randomized and/or customized:

Magnus data:

Attack/Defense, and other properties

Amounts and probabilities for healing cards

Aging times

Spirit numbers

Making weapons and armor change via aging

Enemy data:

Base stats

Experience given

Drops (including photos!)

Element/Status resistances

Magnus Editor:

This would effectively be a user interface for those python scripts I wrote, as well as the ability to edit the actual magnus properties. The user would be able to set magnus properties, change the image, change the text, and even (though this might be a later feature) set enemy drops.

[cavydude]

Update: WE HACKED* THE SCRIPTS

*some restrictions apply

Trying to figure out how to modify treasure chest contents sent me down a month-long rabbit hole (which I would not have been able to work through without some very helpful people in the Baten Kaitos Discord server), but it's finally yielded some results.

All the treasure chests, quest magnus sources, interactable items, and more are controlled by a bunch of special scripts that were basically ripped straight from the gamecube version. By modifying the magnus ids that we find in these scripts, we can change the following:

Treasure chest magnus*

Magnus found by searching places*

Quest magnus sources

Quest magnus requirements (e.g. tree needs to be burned with Pow Milk instead of fire)

* Now there's one really big caveat with those treasure chests, at least for now: We can only change a magnus id to a magnus id with the same number of bytes. We can't change the total number of bytes in the script (yet) so for the time being we have to divide magnus into two groups:

One byte: Weapons, armor, yells, artifacts (earth sphere, etc.), escape, cameras, and voices

Two bytes: Spells, finishers, auras, class-ups, constellations, equips, camp items, healing items, all the random items (magic beans, sushi, etc.), photos, and quest magnus

(Or put another way, any magnus in the collection up to and including voice 6 is one byte, everything after that is two.

Oh yeah, and you'll also notice that while we can control what magnus you get, we haven't been able to figure out where it gets that text from. So you'll still see the name of the magnus that's suppoed to be there.

I honestly think this could still be fun in a randomizer, we'd just be switching weapons and armor with other weapons and armor and all the rest amongst all the rest.

But there's still the tedious job of finding all those scripts in the game files, extracting and decompressing them, and finding the exact location in the script of each of the magnus ids. Because of that, this won't be in the first release of the randomizer lol.

[cavydude]

Step 3

Taking a peek at the texture atlas, we see a ton of copies of that "Missing number" image. Roughly 166 of them, perchance?

Fortunately for us, the game has already defined mappings for the unused magnus entries, which is how the game knows to fetch that specific instance of the "missing number" texture.

Somehow those four bigass numbers by the bottom tell it what coordinates to look at. Thankfully, the Unity hacking library I'm using can do that for me.

So now that we know all this (this was, by far, the hardest part of this entire rabbit hole), let's snatch the image from Origins for Love Syrup and slap it in there:

And here's how it looks in-game:

Now the only thing left to do is figure out how to set some text...

[cavydude]

Step 2

Let's add some properties to our new magnus.

Let's say we want to make it a healing card that heals 1,000 hp and cures all status effects with 100% probability. Here's how we can do that in the magnus data table:

(Note: I cut out a few bits we don't care about)

Now we can place it in our deck and even use it in battle! But... it's still got that weird default image and the generic "not found" text.