Ys Origin Restoration and Enhancement Mods Vita

Ys Origin Restoration and Enhancement Mods
General
Author	Ignis0011
Type	Game Hacks
Version	2021
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2021/02/21
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This mod includes a complete the translation of the game, enhance the animated cutscenes, and add enhanced soundtracks in place of the original ones.

Almost all resources used to make these mods are taken directly from the PC version, including:

• English Texts (1.42GB) - This mod cleans up the entirety of untranslated image texts seen in the game that was retained by DotEmu except the intro cutscene logo text. This covers; removal of the Japanese text under the Ys Origin logo in the Title Menu, Topic texts such as character names and monster names, Boss names and Floor names, and cleanup on floor select screen i.e, renamed to simply "The Tower" and replacing the "*" into "F" beside the floor number.
• Animated Cutscenes (2.29GB) - The bulk of the PC animated cutscenes were upscaled along with usage of frame interpolation to, at the very least, alleviate their abysmal framerates.
• Animated Cutscenes (NO-FI) (2.53GB) - An alternative version of the animated cutscenes mod that offers NO frame interpolation.
• Super Arrange Version Audio (136MB) - This mod replaces various stage background music with that of the Super Arrange Version tracks by Falcom.
• Narrator Alicia Harrington (10MB) - A mod to set Alicia Harrington as the narrator in the intro of the game.
• As Adol the Red (1KB) - This is technically not a mod, but rather a memory modification aka a "cheat", and requires VitaCheat to function. This replaces your current character to the Felghana incarnation of Adol Christin when using a non-EX version of a character and the Napishtim incarnation of Adol Christin when using an EX version of a character, this mod is only for the US version of the game.
• High-Res Assets - This mod used Dasutein's Ys Origin - High-Res Assets Restoration Mod as a base for the data.na file in the incorporation of the English Assets mod, except the title screen text omission, this is included in the English Texts mod.

Installation

Requirements:

• A hacked PlayStation Vita.
• rePatch plugin.
• PS Vita system language is set to English.
• 4GB of free space.

How to install:

• Choose the mod that you'd want to apply to your game and extract them.
• Select and open the folder of the mod that you want to apply.
• Copy the contents of your selected mod folder to the your designated Ys Origin rePatch folder i.e ux0:rePatch/PCSE01033/ or ux0:rePatch/PCSB01081/ or ux0:rePatch/PCSH10049/.

User guide

Recommendations

In addition to the mods, use these plugins to further enhance your playing experience:

• VitaGrafix - To remove the 30FPS lock and gain full 60FPS.
• VitaGrafix Configurator - To easily apply patches for VitaGrafix.
• PSVshell - Overclock your Vita to gain more processing power.
• Forcelang Vita - Force English language on the game without changing the settings.
• VitaCheat - To use the As Adol the Red mod.

Notes

• This entire project was first inspired by Triplicity over at the Steam Community for his "Ys Origin SAV Music Mod". The audio used was not taken from the mod itself but are of my personal FLAC collection and are of much higher quality than the aforementioned mod, however, the loop timestamps was directly taken from Triplicity's mod.
• Apologies, for the animated cutscenes are intentionally large in file size (uncompressed) as the game has issues when compression is introduced.
• The intro has hard-coded English texts due to the source clip, while all subtitles for all other languages are disabled, most assets loaded from the English Texts mod requires your system language to be on English.
• The Animated Cutscenes mod are a hit-or-miss.
• Only the English Texts and Animated Cutscenes mod are affected by the English language mandatory setting, you can still enjoy the Super Arrange Audio Version mod on any language setting.
• You can partially use the Animated Cutscenes mod in any system language by removing the following files in "ux0:rePatch/*TITLE_ID*/data/extension_low/movies/" ; yso_pro.mp4, yso_pro_de.srt, yso_pro_en.srt, yso_pro_fr.srt, yso_pro_it.srt, yso_pro_sp.srt. This reverts the video to the unmodified intro clip and language specific subtitles will also appear.
• These mods are based on the US version of the game, although untested, these mods should work on other regions too and should work on any version of the game aside the As Adol the Red mod.
• When using the As Adol the Red mod, be sure to revert back to your current character using the accompanying codes BEFORE you save, as this mod might break your save.

The Super Arrange Version Mod includes:

• YSO_006 - Scarlet Tempest
• YSO_007 - Silent Desert
• YSO_009 - Prelude to the Omen
• YSO_014 - Scars of the Divine Wing
• YSO_015 - Oboro
• YSO_016 - My Lord, Our Brave
• YSO_017 - Overdrive
• YSO_035 - Believing - Feena & Reah

Screenshots

Vita original

Upscaled animated cutscene mod

Media

Ys Origin - Music: Scarlet Tempest (Banim)

Ys Origin Super Arrange Version - Scarlet Tempest (Falcom Music Channel)

Changelog

2020/02/18

• Added As Adol the Red mod for US version.

2020/02/10

• Added No Interpolation version of the Animated Cutscenes mod, uses a new upscaler that preserves the finer details in a clip, with this however, the framerate is back to what it was before.

2020/09/02 [2]

• Updated English Text mod, optimized image size but retained quality, using the original uncompressed method, the game would crash along with the when rapidly scrolling through the Topic option, specially on the Monster records. Issue had been fixed with the new binaries and is now seamless.

2020/09/02

• Fixed the jitter of the narrator's voice during the start of the intro when using the Narrator Alicia Harrington mod. Adjusted Super Arrange Version Audio mod's volume levels to match the peak amplitude of the Vita files, however they might still seem to be louder for someone's tastes but its not that much deafening now.

2020/08/02 [2]

• Added Narrator Alicia Harrington mod.

2020/08/02

• First Release.

Credits

Thanks:

• Falcom - For making this awesome game.
• Falcom JDK - For the amazing soundtrack, Super Arrange Version rocks.
• XSEED - For their years of quality translations.
• DotEmu - For porting this game to various platforms.
• Triplicity - For the inspiration and the loop timestamps.
• Dasutein - For the awesome High-Res Assets Restoration project.
• Aluigi - For his awesome tools.
• Team molecule - For hacking the Vita.
• dots_tb, CelesteBlue123, SilicaAndPina - For creating rePatch.
• And you - For keeping the community alive, support those credited above, and keep safe.
• Buy me tea?

External links

• Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/lf44az/ys_origin_restoration_and_enhancement_mods_repatch/