It is now possible to play the US version of Metroid Other M with both Japanese voice acting and modified subtitles!

With this knowledge in hand and after months of research, trial, and error, I've edited each video so that the Japanese tracks are Track 1 and assembled a Riivolution mod that forces the game to only read the altered video and message_all file, as well as the jp. Track 1 is the English track, and is read by the US version by default.įurthermore, Other M's subtitles are located in the file message_all.dat, and can be changed using a text editor (with a couple caveats). aix files in the sound>bgm folders, each marked as jp for Japanese. These tracks are found in the following formats: However, I feel even this is not enough, as the Japanese version reuses the same botched localization for its English subtitles.įortunately, all of the Japanese audio tracks are still within the game files of the US version, despite not being selectable in-game. Normally one could just import the Japanese version of Other M, because unlike the US version, the Japanese version allows you to select between Japanese and English VA's and subtitles. Samus sounds less like an emotionless robot, and more like the experienced hunter that she is - and the rest of the cast sounds a lot more natural as well. On top of that, while I'm not an expert on the language by any means, the Japanese voice cast sounds a lot better than their English counterparts in my opinion.

While I had suspected it for years, his video really convinced me that there was quite a lot of character and plot details that was present in the the Japanese script that was utterly ruined by or outright missing from the English localization. In starting this project, I was heavily inspired by this outstanding video below created by Lexicon Lookout. Replace the original botched English localization with one that is (hopefully) more accurate to the Japanese script.Convert the game's entire spoken voice-over from English to Japanese.This is an open-source modding project intended to edit the NTSC-U (North America) version of Metroid: Other M to accomplish two main goals:

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