Ven's Dive to the Heart scene - KH BbS FM - Text timing issue in Keytotruth's English patch
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English patch v1.0.12 - http://www.pspgweber.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24102
Keytotruth's English patch has some text timing issues at the beginning of the game. I'm assuming it has to do with the timings on the Japanese text being shorter than what the timing for the English text being patched in are. This makes sense since the sentences have way less characters in Japanese than they do in English.
Here's the scene in the unpatched version of Birth by Sleep Final Mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN2XDBZu7Jk#t=168
Here's the same scene in the USA version of the original Birth by Sleep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBE5JZ6Iip0#t=329
UPDATE: I've spoken to Keytotruth via Twitter and he told me that the cause of the problem is the fact that the Japanese and US releases of the game have different timings and IDs for their subtitles. Even though he's patching in the text from the US release of BbS, the timings being used for the subtitles are the ones from the Japanese release (which is exactly what I suspected). He also confirmed that it happens in other scenes as well, which is unfortunate.
He says this is a very hard thing to fix this because it requires finding a way to unpack the event files for the corresponding scenes and changing the subtitle timings to match the US subtitle timings.
Given the fact that Keytotruth told me that he spoke with Xeeynamo (creator of the Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix English patch) about a way to fix this and they determined that it was too complicated, I very much doubt this will ever be fixed. At least not until someone deciphers the BbS file system in its entirety like what was done for KHII: FM.
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