[PC] Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

[wrace]

I am "the great and terrible" (by the words of some LOK fans) wrace, the creator of SR1 patch which was used in this localization and the one who added support of specific poland letters in my mod by request of one guy from Poland on the gog forum many years ago (check this moment by yourself - here).

Though you, the author of this thread, provided the evident lie about me (that I am toxic, lol) by following the lie of some other people (very small amount), but I registered here to provide the help for you with your localization (yeah, the "toxic wrace" from Russia provides the help for the people from Poland on your native forum in 2023, though in 2012 other people from Poland - I am about CD Red Project = gog - sold to Square Enix the initial version of my bink patch which is included now into the official distributive of SR1 on Steam and gog and took all money for this action for them; imagine now what exactly did you and your "un-toxic" friends do after this; I think that you made suicide after this or forgot forever about any help for any LOK fans).

You wrote that you do not know how to provide the localization of the title screen in SR1 without repacking the whole bigfile.dat and I can help you with this. Just because I added already such feature into the code of my patch. Take title.pti from bigfile.dat (using Soul Spiral from the site The Lost Worlds), localize it, rename it as polish.pti and place it into the folder locals (where you placed the file polish.txt).

If you mean the localization of the loading.pti (screen with the text "Loading" on it), so I can say that it is unclever idea just because players do not see this screen long enough on the modern PCs.

One more: one our fan localized also the names of the lieutenants on the graves in the Sarafan Tomb. To do the same, you need to take the Soul Reaver PC Texture Utility from the site The Lost Words, to extract the textures with the same numbers as below, to localize them and to place them after this into the folder bigfile (it should exists already and should contain the file texture-00004.png - it is the improved texture of Raziel). These textures (files):
texture-00735.png
texture-00736.png
texture-00737.png
texture-00738.png

P.S.: I am not sure that I will comment any further posts here, but you can try to comment my words if you wish.

[NieMamPomysłuNaNazwe]

Though you, the author of this thread, provided the evident lie about me (that I am toxic, lol)

what about this video: https://youtu.be/K-2jZWPzFN0

[Action]

Wrace! Firstly, thanks for speaking up because you've disappeared from all the platforms I've been watching you on. I would appreciate it if you would add me on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/ActionPL/

Alternatively, I can write a PM on this forum - as long as you can read it :)

Though you, the author of this thread, provided the evident lie about me (that I am toxic, lol) by following the lie of some other people (very small amount)

It's not a lie, it's not a fact - it's an opinion and it's difficult/impossible to argue with it. :) Sorry if the words "toxic plays" offended you and you are right that I was only repeating what I had read elsewhere. I am also glad that you took the chance to at least give some insight into the situation from your perspective. Nevertheless, it is difficult to argue with the "fact" that you are a controversial person. :D "The great and terrible" like you said.

I'm not part of any "LoK Fans" community. Im not interested in these fights and dramas. I'm the guy who saw the need and opportunity to put this translation together - and I did. Mainly thanks to you and your great work with the patch and the Polish script made by Robaczek. You've disappeared from the Steam/Youtube and I decided to describe you in the credits - repeating several times that without your work it would technically not have been possible.

Back to the other facts... :D

1. Thanks to your patch it is now possible to display subtitles in SR1!
2. Thanks to your instructions on Steam forum, it was possible to prepare a Polish localisation!
3. Thanks to your work, it is possible to safely run and complete this PC version of the game on newer systems like Win11 (which I did, twice)!

Besides the topic of "Loading Screen", I have a few other questions, but it will be easier if we go to Steam/PM/any other private conversation. :)

[zerquin]

Podpinam się pod ostatnie pytanie odnośnie części "Defiance" ;).

[wrace]

Though you, the author of this thread, provided the evident lie about me (that I am toxic, lol)

what about this video: https://youtu.be/K-2jZWPzFN0

I provided already my comments to this video which were removed by its author who has a great fear of both myself ("the great and terrible wrace") and truth. Moreover, this action of this one confirmed the evident fact - my opponents (very small amount from LOK fans) are just cowards which can't say me their claims in the face. (Note that the link on this video was shared on the Steam ONLY after that I removed my account on the Steam.) And it is not my opinion or the confirmation of my toxity, it is just the FACT and TRUTH.

About video itself: do you really think that I (or someone clever else) will spend about 30 minutes of this one time for that to listen the cry of one guy that another guy ("the great and terrible wrace") offends a "little girl" and her "little friends"? (Though I just provided some known facts about them.) This looks very funny from my point of view. Moreover, I think that this action does not do a honor for the one who created this video (because it is just a real cry of little baby) and for all who were mentioned in this video (because they cried as little babies about this to the creator of this video instead of to provide their claims into the address of "their enemy" by themself). I think that this small amount of people should ask the people from Japan what is the true honor (for example, the developers from Inti Creates - these people from Japan remember still what is this). Moreover, they should be the LOK fans, but they lead them as fans of Twilight saga.

I can remember them such dialogue between Malek and Vorador in BO1.

Malek
Vengeance! Vengeance for my eternity of suffering!

Vorador
Whelp! As if you knew what eternity was! Grovel before your true master.

Malek
(coldly)
Never! I’ll hack you from crotch to gizzard and feed what’s left of you to your brides...

Fight of heroes. Face to face. Without cry. Without cowardice. So I can say them (ones that cry) this:

Whelps! Grovel before your true master!

;)
Overall. These criers with their ambitions (like Raina Audron) are not true LOK fans. Just because they made exactly 0 conclusions from the whole LOK story. It is like Blizzard with their critics of UNN in "StarCraft II : Wings of Libery" who are followed the advices of CNN in the real life. I.e.: life is life, dreams (in games) are just dreams about true heroes while developers / publishers / fans of such games are just whelps and slaves of the bureaucratic system who can change nothing by themself. It it really sad moment.

Another evident lie from comments to this video:

Amusingly enough, since this video was created he's apparently been banned from Steam and Gog, his patches have been removed and he's resorted to vandalising wikis - including the PC gaming wiki and the LoK wiki - where changes have been reverted and he's also been banned. A sad end.

I was NOT banned on the Steam and gog. I removed by myself my accounts on these markets (at the March of 2023 and 2022 accordingly; remember that at the March of 2021 the game SR1 was locked from the sales on the Steam with the promise from Square Enix about some important update = true remaster of SR1, though at that moment they asked gog about their update of SR1 which was tested by myself and was denoted as "SR1: Degradated Edition"). Moreover, on the Steam it is not possible usually to obtain the ban of the whole account (it is possible usually to obtain the ban in the specific community only which can be removed by support without any problems; sometimes this action leads to the firing of unclever moderator who provided such ban). On the gog there are no moderators at all on the LOK forum, so it is impossible to obtain ban for ANY POSTS on this forum.

Morever, I created again the account of gog to use it for that to provide the links on the known solutions (from Steam) for SR1, SR2 and BO2 - here (because - as I can see - some silence with tech support is appeared on this forum after that I leaved it at the March of 2022). This fact and the links on my products on the Steam are the simplest confirmation of the lie of Baziel Moon that I was banned and that my solutions were removed everywhere. :steamfacepalm:

The main mistake of people like Baziel Moon (who provided this one lie about my bans and so on) is the fact that they judge by themselves - i.e. they think that the appearance of someone on some forum is the privilege of the chosen one (because they can't provide something useful by themself) while in my own case my appearance on some forum is the my good will only.

About story with PCgamingWiki - there is one lamer (if_and_while; this one is written as tester of the Gemini's Soul Fixer) who provides unclever edits of the articles for LOK games time by time and who tried to remove the link on my last solution (SR2 Enhancer) many times. After that the article for SR2 was locked for edits by everyone, but the link on SR2 Enhancer was remained (i.e. I won). You can see now in this article for SR2 info about WideScreen patch (which is obsolete now - with Soul Fixer which provides more clever version of it that does not require additional manipulations with sr2.exe and ini file), about Extended Dialog (yep, in the section "Essential improvements" :steamfacepalm:) which can solve NOTHING and is not used by 99.99% of players (because it is useless garbage), but the info about that garbage was added into articles of SR2, BO2 and Defiance and this moment mislead other users (I saw posts on forums where unclever players suggested to use it to solve some problems :steamfacepalm:). And yes - I did not see this lamer ever on the main official forums (Eidos official forum which was closed by Square Enix in 2016+ and Steam forums of LOK games). I saw some posts of this lamer on LOK forum on gog, but this one does not provide really working solutions ever (and, of course, this one did not make any solution by this one as wrace, Verok or Gemini). I.e.: one lamer (who knows nothing about solving problems with LOK games) provides edits of articles for LOK games. :steamfacepalm:

The true reasons of removing of my accounts on gog and Steam are very simple:
1) on gog (at the March of 2022) - my own counter sanctions against sanctions of gog into the address of my country;
2) on Steam (at the March of 2023) - I had and have the habit to recreate (remove old one and create new one) Steam account after several years (usually, 3 years) to clean it from the garbage (the games I am not interesting already, garbage in the inventory and so on) and I should to recreate it again at the March of 2022 (when I removed my profile on gog), but I waited 1 additional year for the promised by Square Enix "important update for SR1" (for example, release of "SR1: Degradated Edition" which was created by gog in 2021); it was not provided + on the Steam some new problems (with cloud and so on) were appeared during this year + I understood that I - having account on the Steam - limit the number of games I can play by myself (just due to my perfectionism - i.e. I should to pass the whole game and to obtain 100% of achievements in it if I have such game on the Steam account, so I carefully studied any new game that I planned to add on the Steam account); without Steam account this problem was disappeared fully - I can try any game and can easily remove it forever from PC if I do not like it (it is impossible to do on the Steam and gog accounts without removing of accounts) and I do not need now to pass the whole game or to obtain 100% achievements in it (the main problem with achievements is the fact that there is big amount of games with really stupid and annoying achievements which have nothing common with the testing of real skills and so on).

Yes, I returned back on the gog forum to provide again the needed info (and registered here), but it is my good will / heart only.

[wrace]

Wrace! Firstly, thanks for speaking up because you've disappeared from all the platforms I've been watching you on. I would appreciate it if you would add me on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/id/ActionPL/

I removed my account on the Steam and I can't create (and do not want) the new one officially (due to sanctions; of course, it is not problem to obtain Steam account unofficially, but I do not see the reason to do this), but you can ask me on the gog forum. For example, in this my new thread.

Though you, the author of this thread, provided the evident lie about me (that I am toxic, lol) by following the lie of some other people (very small amount)

It's not a lie, it's not a fact - it's an opinion and it's difficult/impossible to argue with it. :) Sorry if the words "toxic plays" offended you and you are right that I was only repeating what I had read elsewhere. I am also glad that you took the chance to at least give some insight into the situation from your perspective. Nevertheless, it is difficult to argue with the "fact" that you are a controversial person. :D "The great and terrible" like you said.

If opinion uses the lie and provides desinformation - it is the lie / desinformation. Simple thing.
And I am not the "controversial person", I am the "fair and correct person who calls things by their proper names".

I'm not part of any "LoK Fans" community. Im not interested in these fights and dramas. I'm the guy who saw the need and opportunity to put this translation together - and I did.

If you are not the part of any "LoK Fans" community, you are not interested in these fights and dramas, and you want to do only good things (provide good product), just do not repeat unclever words of some people about other people and provide only real facts about existing products instead of providing your opinion about other people. Otherwise you will become immediately the part of this fight and will repeat the lie and desinformation.

Besides the topic of "Loading Screen", I have a few other questions, but it will be easier if we go to Steam/PM/any other private conversation. :)

I prefer to use forums in the case of any questions according to the products and their features. In that case this info will be available for many users (for that I did not repeat it for every user). Even if it will be deleted (like on Steam - exactly, it is stored on the Wayback Machine), though on the gog forum nothing can be deleted fully.

[grzybiarz]

a jak tam w tym spolszczeniu na screenie jest "x" z PlayStation?

[Action]

Czy są plany nad spolszczeniem defiance? To jedyna gra która wspiera napisy, oraz zostało zrobione do niej już tłumaczenie Węgierskie.

Podpinam się pod ostatnie pytanie odnośnie części "Defiance" ;).

Taki projekt już kiedyś powstał, był już nawet na ukończeniu. Natomiast wyszło klasycznie - doszło do różnicy zdań, ekipa się rozpadła, ludzie się na siebie poobrażali, natura ludzka wygrała. ;) Ale są to dzieje sprzed 15 lat, ludzie dorośli, czas zakopał konflikty. Szanse na tę polonizację są, ale w moim przypadku priorytet na zapełnianie wolnego czasu ma obecnie BO1.

a jak tam w tym spolszczeniu na screenie jest "x" z PlayStation?

Patch od wrace'a wyświetla piktogramy dopasowane zarówno do kontrolerów Sony jak i Microsoftu. Można to ustawić w opcjach wedle uznania. :)


Przy okazji dzięki pomocy wrace'a na gogu udało się w prosty sposób dorzucić przetłumaczoną grafikę ekranu ładowania oraz dodać brakującą linijkę tekstu na końcu gry. Uaktualnione spolszczenie znajduje się już w pierwszym poście. :) Tym samym polonizacja jest już kompletna! Niemniej jeżeli ktoś znajdzie jakieś błędy - zachęcam do zgłaszania, szybko je poprawie. :D