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2009/01/29 / ar2bugfix

This tool fixes a crash, which many people have been wailing about, encountered when fighting Raki in the USA version of Ar Tonelico 2. NIS really made a mess out of the localization of this game ... there are other less deadly bugs, like the IPD contact text, that I might also clean up later.

Note that this tool is implemented as a scanner-patcher so that it will work with any target; run it against the game executable or any uncompressed disc image of the game.

Updated 1.01: This is a command line tool but I added a small delay so that novice users can drag&drop an ISO to it and have enough time to read the confirmation message.

ar2bugfix.zip

Contents:

// ar2bugfix.cpp, v1.01 2009/01/30
// This tool fixes a crashing bug encountered when fighting Raki in the
// USA release of Ar Tonelico 2 (SLUS_217.88).

Known to work with:

2009/01/20 Banpresto/GUST 「Ar Tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica (PS2)」

SLUS_217.88, *.ISO (sig=none)