The lip-synching issue the Japanese version has is also present in the English version of the game's 358/2 Days movie. I've seen footage of the English version online, and they didn't bother to change the lip movements to match the English dialogue. And I think they're leaving Re: CoM untouched as well, which already had inaccurate lip synching.
If Square decides to add English voice acting to the various new scenes that KH2FM adds, all of Namine and Diz's lines in the game may have to be redubbed entirely by the new actors for consistency not only with the rest of the game, but the preceding games as well.
To be honest I won't miss Brittany Snow as Namine, as I believe Meaghan Jette Martin fits the role just fine, but the loss of Christopher Lee's Diz/Ansem the Wise would be sad indeed.
Who knows, though? They didn't replace Billy Zane With Richard Epcar for Ansem SoD in KH1FM, so maybe they'll leave the original voice acting untouched. But since the odds of the original actors returning is pretty slim at this point, especially Christopher Lee, I have my doubts.
Anybody think they'll release 1.5 Remix for download on the Playstation Store so that people will be able to play it an enjoy it for years to come without having to hunt for a physical copy? They should do that with the FFX/FFX-2 remaster as well.
The set is only going to include the cutscenes from Days, remastered in HD and as part of a theater mode. So you can understand the story of Days without having to play it.
And before everybody complains about no KH2 or anything, they are likely going to make a 2.5 set as well, and that will probably include KH2FM, BBS (FM maybe), and Coded's cutscenes.
You also might want to consider updating the 358/2 Days cutscenes. They're pretty low quality and some of the scenes are missing altogether. If all the cutscenes are FMVs, wouldn't it be simpler to upscale them?
No worries. I managed to recreate the ISO and burn it, and now the game works fine.
The patch is really good so far, but I do have some feedback.
-The menu tutorials and the minigame tutorials are left untranslated. I know the patch (and probably the game itself) are meant for people who already played KH2 before, but it would still be helpful to some people if the menus were translated.
- I noticed little lines and marks above some of the text. I'm not sure what that was about, but it was probably unavoidable and it's not a huge problem.
- It's been said before, but the English font is different from the official English release of KH2. There's nothing wrong with that though, as long as the game is readable. There are also some grammar errors with the new text that had to be translated. They're not huge, but they can be distracting. One thing is that some words aren't capitalized when they should be, like "Two become one" should be "Two Become One," and so on.
Okay, I managed to get the English patched game to work on my PS2 by burning the ISO onto a disc with IMGBurn, but now I face a couple of problems while I play the game:
-There is no music
-When I try to enter the Load Screen or play a cutscene in theater mode, the game stops loading. The game doesn't freeze. It just doesn't load and I cannot do anything else so I have to reset the game.
Why are these things happening? Is there a problem with how I created t he ISO in the first place? I managed to patch the ISO and the disc works on my PS2 with Swap Magic, so I know I made no errors in patching the game or burning the disc.
Okay. My Flip top cover arrived today. I installed it, and then tried to use Swap Magic to play my game. THe problem was, the PS2 still recognized the disc with the game ISO as an invalid disc. So I tried playing my original copy of KH2FM. At first, it appears Swap Magic works, but after the screen goes black, the game doesn't load. I just hear this annoying pinging sound that my PS2 makes when it's trying to load the disc.
So the problem must lie with the PS2 being able to read discs. The cover came with its own white cap and metal thing which are used to read discs. The instructions I got probably said to use the white cap the PS2 already has. Well, whether it's the default cap or the one I got from the flip top cover, I still can't play games with Swap Magic. I don't know if something's hooked up wrong or if it has something to do with how the white cap and metal pellet is inserted into the flip top cover, all I know is that it's pretty confusing.
EDIT: Okay, I made a discovery. The KH2FM game WILL work. For some reason the white cap and metal pellet stop the game from loading. I don't know if it's loose or something, but the disc only loads after you open the cover and separate the white cap from the disc reader. After that the game loads, and I can close the cover and the game will work.
I don't why the white cap and metal pellet stop the game from loading. On the demonstration video I saw, it loaded even when the lid was closed. I do know that the cap and pellet are indeed necessary to load discs in the first place. The metal is magnetic, and it connects the lid and the disc tray together, keeping the disc steady. It's just that after using swap magic, you need to lift the lid so that the game loads. I must say that there are two pellets I have. A thick solid once, and one that is thinner and has a hole in the middle, kinda like a ring. The ring makes more noise than the pellet though.
So, why can't I load the game WITHOUT lifting the cover after using swap magic? After this, I gotta figure out why Swap Magic still won't play my disc with the ISO in it.
I tried to burn the ISO onto a blank DVD-R, but MagicDisk said there was no CD-R/RW disk inserted into the tray, even though I was trying to burn it onto a DVD-R. So I had to copy the ISO onto the disk manually. Seriously, why didn't MagicDisk recognize my DVD-R in the disk tray? I ended up earing the file on my first disc since I didn't know why Swap Magic wasn't working, and that didn't free up any new space. So I got another DVD-R and actually burned the ISO onto the disc, but it turns out I think copying it and burning it were the same.
I tried using Swap Magic to swap the disks and play the game, but Swap Magic said that the DVD-R wasn't a valid PS2 disk. I use Swap Magic 3's DVD-R driver boot disk. It turns out I've been doing Swap Magic wrong. I lost the Slide tool for it, so I was using a piece of cardboard to open the disc tray for the PS2. It turns out I NEED the Slide Tool in order to lock the disk tray so that the PS2 will play the game.
So I bought a flip top cover online for the fat PS2, and I'll wait until it gets delivered. Hopefully Swap Magic will work and I'll be able to play the game. I hope I don't run into any problems playing the game after going through all this trouble.
I have 1 more question. When Xeeynamo releases future versions of the patch, how will I be able to update the ISO? Will I have to remove it from the DVD-R, patch it, and then put it back? Can I do this without having to use up more DVD-Rs? Is there a way to remove the ISO and still free up disk space so that I can put it back?
I'm an idiot. The output file wasn't a specific file that had to be named. It was where I wanted to save the ISO. I also didn't realize that in order to make the ISO, I had to have the files from the game disc in the box in the upper right.
So I created the ISO, and I went to the patcher, and I think the patching WORKED! Yay, I finally did it! Now how do I go about playing the game? Should I transfer the ISO to a blank DVD-R and use Swap Magic, or should I just somehow put the ISO back into my copy of the game? I think the DVD-R would be the safer option. I should also point out that the file I created lists the ISO as a MagicDisk document. Is it still technically an ISO and will it still play on a PS2? Also, if I used different files or less of them when I made the ISO, would the patching still work? I don't know if I did everything right yet.
