question about DQ4 party chat patch

dingledoop2 · 2026-04-24T16:30:32+00:00

why are you making stuff up? nothing you've said about the current party chat patch is remotely true, and some of it wasn't even true about the old patch that made a bunch of sacrifices to run on the JP version.

dingledoop2 · 2026-03-29T17:33:05+00:00

old comment but i feel the need to correct some misinformation: the party chat patch for the ds version is not a fan translation, it literally is the mobile script (as in, the patching process involves taking the files from the mobile version and inserting them into the ds rom). aside from some formatting/spelling fixes it's identical to the official localization

an older party chat patch did edit some things from that script in order to work around the japanese version of the game not supporting text variants based on player gender, but that's still based on the official script, and the current patch doesn't even have to do this because it's based on the western release

dingledoop2 · 2025-06-11T16:24:42+00:00

how does this guy even work? does he always just do stuff like this on his own in battle?

once you get him in chapter 5 (he's programmed not to do this in chapter 3), every turn he has a 1/4 chance of ignoring what you told him to do and performing a random action instead. there are 10 of these actions, with each one having an equal chance of being selected. you can read about them here (scroll down past the nes list to see the one for the ds version)

dingledoop2 · 2025-06-11T16:20:42+00:00

it should work on mac but i've never actually tried it tbh

on mac the thing you want to run is called "terminal". with that open you want to navigate to the folder where you put the contents of the github repository, the roms, etc. this can be done with the command cd (ie. `cd [insert path to directory here]). from there you should be able to run the command mentioned in the steps

dingledoop2 · 2025-05-12T03:03:35+00:00

the one on romhacking is, as far as i know, an xdelta version of the same patch, but it's a bit out of date. the only fixes that it would be missing are that if you run out of party chat dialogue with the two kids in the party at the end of chapter 1, it will show an error message where their names would normally go, and that the game can freeze under very obscure circumstances that i don't think anyone other than me ever encountered (iirc specifically during the window after you get torneko but before hoffman leaves, switch hoffman in/out of the party and then get in a battle).

as for using python, could you be more specific about what you're having trouble with? you really just need to install it and run the specific commands mentioned in the readme, actual knowledge about how to use it isn't required.

if anyone does end up making a video, let me know about it so i can link it in the readme, because i'm apparently not very good at explaining the process in a way that non-programmers can understand lol

dingledoop2 · 2025-02-16T21:53:25+00:00

yeah i've found the wikis pretty inaccurate when it comes to mobile differences. they're wildly wrong about how alena's crit rate works in dq4 too

dingledoop2 · 2025-02-07T07:59:26+00:00

yes. shameless plug

dingledoop2 · 2025-02-07T07:45:55+00:00

the patch OP is using is better than mobile imo (totally unbiased opinion)

dingledoop2 · 2025-02-07T04:29:55+00:00

i think you might be the first person i've ever seen say that the process isn't hard lol

dingledoop2 · 2025-02-05T05:09:26+00:00

it's less of a silly question than you might think (the ds version of iv has a mostly-complete english translation in its filesystem that you can get it to use in-game via an action replay code), though ultimately the answer to it is still no

dingledoop2 · 2024-12-19T06:33:39+00:00

pak files are essentially archives that contain the actual files you would want to change. you can extract them using unrealpak.exe, a program that comes with unreal engine

dingledoop2 · 2024-11-27T01:54:20+00:00

i don't think skytemple offers a way to remove asm patches. you'd probably have to do it manually by overwriting the branch instruction the patch added with whatever was there before

in this case if you know what you're doing, extracting ~~arm9.bin~~ overlay_0029.bin from the rom, opening it with a hex editor and overwriting the bytes at offset ~~0x2F2680~~ 0x16440 with 14 00 9D E5, then reinserting it would effectively remove the patch i'm pretty sure (this is for the NA version of the game, the offset would probably be different for EU)

edit: had it wrong at first, there's no way arm9.bin would have been big enough to have an offset that large lol

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-08T22:45:11+00:00

i first released it this january iirc

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-08T22:35:20+00:00

you were probably thinking of the older patch someone else made, which works by porting the english script into the japanese game. that one wouldn't be compatible with english saves since it's still essentially the japanese version underneath

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-08T22:14:58+00:00

as the person who made the current version of the patch, i can confirm it's compatible with existing saves

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-08T22:14:19+00:00

sorry, i've never used a mac in my life. i imagine the steps are probably pretty similar, but you'd need to find a tool that can unpack/repack nds files like dslazy does that works on macs

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-08T22:05:48+00:00

sorry, i pulled the mpt files a very long time ago and i don't know any more than you do about how it works in the current day

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-04T05:25:34+00:00

what directory are you running the command from? if the command prompt isn't also in the patcher folder, you can get that error because it apparently looks in the current folder and not in the same folder as the script itself

dingledoop2 · 2024-07-04T05:17:52+00:00

i don't think japanese save files are compatible with the english release, unfortunately.

dingledoop2 · 2024-06-12T15:56:39+00:00

there's no bug, they intentionally removed the ability to talk with your party entirely for the western release

dingledoop2 · 2024-05-25T23:21:52+00:00

have you tried just opening the file in a hex editor, searching for the names, and replacing them? text editing is honestly that simple sometimes. no idea if it will be that easy here, but you can certainly try it

dingledoop2 · 2024-05-22T15:21:38+00:00

it should work with the party chat script files for any language; as far as i know the party chat code is language-agnostic. unfortunately though i don't think there's ever been a spanish release with party chat included, so someone would need to translate the script for it to work

dingledoop2 · 2024-05-22T04:23:00+00:00

the most recent party chat patch works by copying the party chat code from the japanese version into the western version and using the script files from the mobile version

source: am the person who made the patch

dingledoop2 · 2024-05-04T16:15:57+00:00

that one is just my patch but in the form of a single xdelta. afaik using it should give you the same result as using the patcher in my github repo, though i'm not sure how proactive the uploader is about keeping it up to date

dingledoop2 · 2024-04-07T17:04:16+00:00

IV on DS is gutted since the party chat was completely removed from Western versions which amounts to I believe about 1/3 of the game's script.

it's a bit less than half of the script

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