Friday, March 24, 2023
Today we are going to branch out and talk about a tool that will be useful for ALL modern Persona games (P3-P5).
ATLUS SCRIPT TOOLS
OR,
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND EDIT TEXT IN PERSONA GAMES
THIS COULD BE YOU!!!
The first thing you're going to need to do is download the newest release from this page. Download the "Release.zip" file from the top most (and therefore newest) entry on this page.
The next thing you're gonna wanna do is grab the newest release off this page, although this time you want to grab either "AtlusScriptGUI.2.3.zip" or "AtlusScriptGUI.2.3.Dark.zip" (I'd recommend the dark version)
Now that you have those two files, unzip the Release.zip and your AtlisScriptGUI zip into the same folder, so that your files look something like this:
Now all you need to do click on your AtlusScriptCompilerGUI exe and you will see a window like this:
Now you can just set the "Game" dropdown to whatever game you are trying to extract the files from. Now you might be wondering what a .BF or a .BMD is... Well that will be learned another day when we start talking about unpacking the games!
But lets just say you had a spare .BMD on hand, all you would have to do is drag that file onto the Decompile square in the GUI, and it should give you two additional files, a .msg and a .msg.h
You can ignore the .msg.h file, idk what it even does. What you can do know is open up the .msg file with your text editor of choice, and you should be able to edit the text of the game!
There will be a lot of things in brackets that controls stuff like who it says is talking and what bustup to use, but that stuff is more advanced and wont be as easy to see for a first time modder.
Heres a small clip of the best way to edit the text.
Now that you've made your edits and SAVED YOUR CHANGES (don't forget this) you can re-encode the file back to the BMD format. Simply drag your edited msg file onto the Compile side of the program, and it should give you a new .BMD file in the same folder as the .msg.
Thats all for today guys, rememer to lik cmnt and subcrbe and rng that bel