PSO2 Tweaker - Various enhancements

[AIDA]

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CURRENT FEATURES:


- Install PSO2 without needing any other programs
- RESUME failed patch jobs (disconnected, crash, etc) without rechecking all the files
- Uninstall patches in minutes, rather then doing a 2-hour file check to fix compatibility issues.
- Supports the Item Translation patch!
- Change "Hidden" PSO2 Settings - Like making the Interface completely invisible all the time!
- Diagnose Connection Errors and see if you have issues connecting
- Modify PSO2 Settings (graphics, shaders, etc)
- Automatically download and apply updates after updating PSO2
- Automatically check for (and install!) updates to the EN patch/Large Files/story patch/JP names/JP Trials/PSO2 itself!
- Update PSO2 faster then SEGA's official launcher
- Supports creating (and restoring) a backup for said patches, in case they don't work correctly/you wish to remove them without patching
- Support for installing (and removing via backup) the new Russian PSO2 patch!
- Automatic (optional) updates, including changelog
- Extremely customizable GUI
- Ability to check for missing files and download them if necessary, instead of spending 30 minutes to find 1 file you're missing.
- Fix known GameGuard issues
- If the program encounters an error, it will offer to upload the log for you so you can just copy/paste the URL here for much easier troubleshooting
- Ability to remove/restore the in-game censor (CLIENT SIDE)
- Ability to disable/re-enable the playback of the opening videos
- Launch PSO2 directly instead of through the JP launcher, saving time and resources

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DOWNLOAD LINK:

See my signature, the picture underneath this post. Click where it says "PSO2 Tweaker".

You will also need the .NET framework - You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

For Windows XP SP3 users, download this .NET framework: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17851

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Q: It keeps telling me to update a patch, even though I installed the latest one outside of the Tweaker!?

A: Go to the options menu and select the version of the patch you installed from the Override dropdown boxes :)

Q: Disabling the opening videos!? What do you mean!?

A: This removes the videos, so that PSO2 instead displays a black screen. I've noticed that when starting PSO2, it takes way more memory than it should to load the opening video - This disables it, so when it loads, just click 4 times (one click per disabled video) to get to the title screen. MUCH faster, and TBH, it seems like the game performs better as well. (Perhaps the movie isn't unloaded correctly from memory normally?)

Q: My game locks up before loading the Title Screen!

A: Try restoring the intros - This happens sometimes, and I'm going to blame it on SEGA's shitty coding.

Q: THIS IS USELESS AIDA. YOU'RE USELESS. GO DIE IN A FIRE.

A: Some people wanted this, some people are not tech-savy enough to mess with the data folder. Open this after every patch, check mark the boxes, apply and close. Bam!

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DISCLAIMER:

As with any patch/modification/simply connecting to the server, there is no guarantee you will not get banned using this tool or the patches contained herein. You use this tool at your own risk, and as-is. Neither this tool, Arks-Layer, or PSOW or any affiliates are at fault if you do get banned. Thank you.

TO BE ADDED IN FUTURE VERSIONS

- Any other features you want, ask!

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CREDITS:

The Redeemer - For showing me how to pull SEGA's secret ninja patchlists <3~
Gama - For extensive testing
Cyberman - For extensive testing
Agrajag - For helping with getting PSO2 to launch post Episode 2!
Raven0123 - For helping with getting PSO2 to launch post Episode 2!/ For their work on the PSO2 Item Translation Project!
Variant - For helping with getting PSO2 to launch post Episode 2!/For their work on the PSO2 Item Translation Project!
arcnmx - For their work on the PSO2 Item Translation Project!

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Changelog:

1/27/2014:
- Fixed an issue where the sidebar would load even if disabled
- Fixed an issue with auto-removing the censor
- Fixed an issue with the pastebin upload being enabled even if disabled (in rare cases)
- Fixed various issues in the "-item" and "-pso2" flags
- Changed the "Main update server check failed" message
- Rewrote some more code, added more multi-threading
- Rewrote some startup code, it should be a bit faster starting up now
- It should no longer sit at "Checking for PSO2 Updates" forever, only about 10 seconds at max

1/24/2014:
- Added a PSO2 Server status indicator (Thanks for your help, Andrew!)

1/17/2014:
- Added the ability to turn on logging with the item patch (Please only turn this on when asked to!)
- Added exception catching to webpage calls
- Added a new Donation Links menu, includes links for Bumped, Cirnopedia, Tweaker, and PSO2 EN Patch host

1/5/2014:

- Added multiple checks to catch errors related to downloads. For example, if the Tweaker update server goes down, the program will now try to contact a secondary server, and failing that, continue as normal, instead of breaking. Also, if the PSO2 EN patches are not downloaded correctly, it will not apply them.
- Fixed the link for the PSO2 Russian patch
- Added a link to the Symbol Art Editor (English Version) in the web links
- Added a link to getting PSO2 to work in Linux in the web links

Missed a few changelogs, sorry! Basically, I fixed stuff. <3

12/3/2013:

- (2.6.7.4) Fixed the "Yo!" msg
- (2.6.7.4) Added the ability to disable pre-downloaded RAR dialogs in the options menu, as requested

12/2/2013:
- Due to popular demand, added a donation link in the Web Links menu, along with fixing the Cirnopedia link
- Added the ability to download and install the story patch through the Tweaker
- Added "Clear Symbol Art Cache" under "Other Tasks"
- Tweaker will now detect if it's in the download folder, and inform you it should be moved
- Added the ability to turn logging on and off for the item translation through "Configure Item Translation"
- Added support for French, German, and Russian languages in the Options menu. (Not everything is translated, it will be a rolling update)

Click to see the rest of the changelog:

[spoiler-box]11/18/2013:
- Added a new feature to launch Google Chrome in a PSO2 Compatibility mode, which will let you use Chrome while you play PSO2! (ORB Menu -> Other Tasks)

11/16/2013:
- Added a heavily requested ability to resume failed patching WITHOUT having to recheck all the files. If a patch job fails/stalls, go to Troubleshooting -> Resume patching to resume where you left off! This should help with those who have slow connections or issues patching a lot.
- Changed the link for the story download, it is now a direct (and very fast!) download
- Added an option to auto-delete the censor file upon patching
- Fixed some bugs, including the "Arithmetic Overflow" error

10/21/2013:
- Moved all files over to dropbox (Oh look, we're back here again!) in an attempt to fix Norton's false positive identification issues

10/11/2013:
- When there's an error launching PSO2, PSO2T will automatically try to fix it and relaunch the game.
- Fixed a long time bug: Setting the resolution using Tweaker would sometimes stretch other windows instead
- Rewrote the code for resetting PSO2 settings
- Added a much requested feature: The ability to restart downloads!

10/9/2013:
- Fixed an issue where the English patch and English large files would not download correctly/tell you to update them again. (Not my fault!)
- Fixed an issue with auto-updating where it would refuse to work.
- Fixed an issue with the backup/pre-downloaded questions in the English Patch/Large Files being flipped.

10/3/2013:
- Fixed a bug where the Uninstall routine would complain about backup folders

9/29/2013:
- Fixed some bugs in the "Check for Deleted/Empty Files" routine

9/22/2013:
- Added checks to make sure users are installing the story mode using the .rar, not .torrent
- The Tweaker will now check for pso2.exe before trying to launch
- Upgraded the "Check for missing files" to include files that are 0KB
- Uninstall function will now correctly remove backups

9/15/2013:
- Fixed the item_cache issue that TaigaUC reported.
- Fixed a debug info issue (internal bug)

9/8/2013:
- Added the ability to uninstall the story patch (Requires the RAR, will not require it in a future update!)

9/5/2013v4:
- Fixed the 0KB Translator.dll and Translation.bin errors (Thanks HanSoto!)

9/5/2013v3:
- Added the ability to "uninstall" patches, rather then do a ridiculously long file check
- Made some updates to the way the sidebar works

9/5/2013v2:
- Added tooltips to the ORB (when you hover over a button)
- Fixed the sidebar links so they'll open in the default browser in a new window

9/5/2013:
- Added a sidebar containing information about patch compatibility and news
- Added a new option to enable/disable the sidebar auto-opening at program start
- Added a "downloaded XXMB/GB" when downloading patches, as requested
- Added a new web link, "The Ship 2 Voice Chat" (EXPFULL)

9/3/2013:
- Removed the "File was NOT overwritten!" error, as it seems to throw false positives
- Rewrote some code in the version checking, the program should no longer lock up there (and should be much faster!)

9/1/2013 Update 2:
- Added more info to the "Old file was not overwritten!" error
- Added an easter egg

9/1/2013:
- Added some debug info everywhere
- Cleaned up how Logs are saved
- Added some fixes to the patching process

8/30/2013:
- Made further improvements to the "Fix Gameguard issues" module
- Made PSO2 Tweaker wait once it starts updating (just to be safe)
- Added a failsafe to make sure the Item Translation files download correctly

8/28/2013:
- Fixed the "The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform." bug, it'll redownload 7za.exe or UnRar.exe if it detects they're not download correctly
- Added a few more lines of cleanup code

8/26/2013:
- Moved files to copy.com servers, much faster/stable now!

8/25/2013:
- Rewrote some code that should fix that "ReadMemoryProcess" error.

8/24/2013:
- Added a new troubleshooting option to terminate PSO2's process as requested (useful if it stops responding)
- Added a new troubleshooting option to reset PSO2's settings to default
- Rearranged some of the menus in the ORB alphabetically

8/23/2013:
- Added more diagnostic info to launching the game. If you were getting an unhandled args error, please try launching the game again, and post your logfile on the forums.
- Fixed "Access Denied" errors when updating and EXEs are open. Program will now automatically close PSO2, the PSO2 Launcher, and PSO2 updater before attempting to update them.
- Made major improvements to the updating process (progress bar, windows, etc)
- Fixed some bugs

8/13/2013:
- Fixed the issue with the Story Patch update and RAR files
- Added some more diagnostic info to the PSO2 launch to diagnose bugs. (This will only appear on the logfile)
- Added some new stuff to the Fix Gameguard errors routine. Give it another shot if you're still having trouble with GG
- Moved the files to a new server, it should prevent downloading 0KB files
- Modified the options menu a bit to fit suggestions
- Made it so that the item translations are now updated if launched through the command line with -item
- Redid some of the routines to make them faster/more efficient
- Added a new story patch download server (You can only test the speeds, it's still being set up)

8/11/2013:
- Added three new functions: The ability to switch patch servers depending on which one is faster, the ability to test them to see which is faster, and the ability to force a check for story mode updates. I also fixed story mode patching, so the files will actually stick.
- Fixed that stupid win32 directory error (for realz)

8/10/2013:
- Added the ability to install the EN patches/Large Files from external RAR files
- Fixed the "win32 directory is blank" errors (that happened when trying to launch PSO2)
- The "PSO2 Tweaker Updater.exe is denied" error *should* be fixed. Let me know if it happens again.
- Updated/fixed story patch updating, and added the current version of the RAR to the update dialog
- Added more information to certain parts of the program
- Fixed various bugs

8/7/2013:
- Fixed an issue with updating the item translation files

8/6/2013:
- Fixed an issue with minimizing
- Make the credits form resizeable, will be updated next version with more credits
- Will now check to see if the Item Translation patch works with the current version of PSO2.
- Added some more cleanup code
- Fixed an issue with updating (clicking "Yes" on new version available dialogs would do nothing since last update)

8/5/2013:
- Now supports command line arguments (-item, -pso2) to launch PSO2 without the interface ever showing
- Program will now automatically restore any backups found BEFORE patching
- Program will only download the patchfiles when it needs them, as opposed to every time it starts up
- Program fully supports the item translation patch, updating it, and enabling/disabling it
- Program will automatically close when PSO2 starts
- Background images, unfortunately, had to be removed. Sorry!

7/29/2013:
Made it so the program can run whether my dropbox is up or down.

7/27/2013:
- Added a new (slightly faster and more efficient) way of updating the story patch
- Added a link in the Web Links to Dr Jim's Arks Cash tutorial
- Updated the story patch to include all reported bug fixes and spelling/grammar issues
- Added a lot of MB12 stuff to the story patch
- (Hopefully) Next version will have Desktop EQ Notifications, using a new 100% accurate method we developed!

7/21/2013:
- Added a button in Options to reset the Story Mode Location, for new RAR files.
- Added the ability to change textbox background color, as requested.
- Added a new troubleshooting button - "Analyze install issues"
- Added "Cancel current process" to the menu when you right click the download bar - This will stop any sort of filechecking or downloading. (Experimental)
- Next version will have Desktop EQ Notifications! (partially using the EQ bot, but also using a new method we've developed!)

7/19/2013:
- PSO2 can now be launched from the Tweaker again (Thanks to Raven0123, Variant, and Agrajag!)
- Added the ability to override which version of patches you have installed in the Options menu, in case you update them outside the Tweaker.
- Tweaker will now look for PSO2 updates, THEN updates to the various other patches.

7/18/2013:
- Rewrote the update process for the Story patch

7/16/2013:
- Replaced "Check for missing files" with "Check for missing/old files", since that's what everyone tried to use it for anyway

7/14/2013:
- Added "Hidden Settings" to the PSO2 Options menu
- Added "Make the Interface Invisible" to the Hidden Settings (Thanks to Cyron Tanryoku for telling me about this!)
- Fixed another error where the PSO2 settings wouldn't save correctly!


7/13/2013:
- Added "Diagnose Connection Errors"
- Added "Web links"
- Fixed an error with the PSO2 Settings where it wouldn't save because of the resolution being all fubar.

7/12/2013:
Spent the day writing code to give another heavily requested feature:
- You can now use PSO2 Tweaker to configure the PSO2 Options (Graphics, shaders, etc), just as you would in the Vanilla JP launcher.
- I'm aware the PSO2 Options form doesn't theme 100% correctly, I'll fix it later today. (FIXED)
-I'll add the "sound" portion later today as well.


7/11/2013:
- "Font color" and "which patches to install after update" now save like they should
- Program now remembers where you had the story rar and will automatically look there before asking you to find it (This setting will save the next time you install the story patch)
- Added a label to the top ("Click the orb to access the menu")
- Added a routine - Don't download pso2.exe when updating if they already have the latest version
- Added a check for certain files - If they don't download correctly, download them again.
- Added a new option: Select whether you want to always backup before patching, never backup, or ask every time!

7/10/2013 (The second time!) :

- Fixed a bug where it would display the "Current EN patch version is" instead of "Current Large Files version is"
- Added the ability to change the font color (Hooray!)
- Added the option to auto-install patches after PSO2 updates (Check the options menu)

7/10/2013:

- Fixed the "Index out of bounds" error
- Added a "Fix Gameguard Issues" button under troubleshooting
- Fixed the "Download was canceled by user!" when launching PSO2
- Fixed the updating process deleting pso2.exe and not replacing it with the newer version

7/9/2013:

- Fixed some bugs with updating/patching PSO2. Everything works 100% now!
- Fixed the "colors not saving when updating" bug
- Changed the way the program looks for updates to PSO2, much more reliable now.
- Fixed the "Restart to change language" bug.

7/8/2013:

- Fixed "Download canceled by user" when launching PSO2
- Fixed the "Launch PSO2" button being overtop of the selected directory
- Temporary fix for the "Restart to apply language" bug
- Language box will now show your current language, just like the other boxes.
- Fixed the "file not found" error! (This one was really tricky!)
- Added support for the JP Enemy name patches and the JP Emergency Code patches
- Added support for Russian language :)
- Added a button to change the color of the theme you're currently using.
- Ability to turn off pastebin uploads (NOT RECOMMENDED)

7/7/2013
- Disabled the "Made the text box transparent" feature - Caused crashes on certain systems.

7/6/2013

- Made the text box transparent (Looks MUCH better!)
- Got rid of the Confirmation box, added 2 new themes - 2010 Silver and Windows 7 Blue
- Made the options screen load the settings you currently have
- Made "Close program when PSO2 starts" remember it's settings
- Updated the "Fix PSO2 Permissions" routine.
- Added the "Credits" window
- Added support for Portugese - Thanks to Gama!
- Fixed some more bugs!
- Program will now check for story updates directly after installation[/spoiler-box]

[spoiler-box]7/5/2013

- Fixed various bugs here and there
- Fixed an error where doing things during the patchlist download would make everything go nutty
- Added "Background image" to the options menu (Pretty cool, check it out, they're made by Gama!)
- Reworked the GUI a bit based on suggestions (Comments/Criticism are welcome!)
- Added the option to close the program when you launch PSO2.
- Added a new icon (Thanks again, Gama!)

6/30/2013 Changelog:
- Bugfixes! Bugfixes everywhere!
- Tweaker will now check for updates to the Large Files and even PSO2 itself!
- Now supports the Russian PSO2 Patch!

6/29/2013 Changelog:
- Tweaker will now check for updates to the EN patch and story patch!
- Large file support will come tomorrow
- Fixed some bugs!

6/28/2013 Changelog:

Complete GUI rehaul!
Changeable themes!
Progress bar/information about download (and ability to cancel downloads!)
Support for additional patches
Support for additional languages
Ability to automatically restore backups!
The program will now offer to automatically update itself via magic!
Fixed A LOT of bugs
Fixed a bug where certain things wouldn't work if launched in the pso2_bin folder
Program will now offer to close hidden/nonresponsive PSO2 Tweaker.exe and pso2.exe (if your game won't start right because it's already open, this will fix it)


6/26/2013 Changelog:
- Ability to patch/check for missing files restored
- Allow download (and backup!) of Large files
- Progress bar of downloads
- The program itself is MUCH more stable now

6/8/2013 Changelog:
- Coded some "cleanup" stuff for after the program closes
- Fixed the "Check for missing files" errors

6/5/2013 Changelog:
- Fixed the rest of the update process - No more Error 640 stuff!
- Fixed a bug that prevented "Fix PSO2 EXEs" from working correctly

6/4/2013 Changelog:
- Fixed an error that prevented some people from updating correctly

6/3/2013 Changelog:
- Added a new Easter Egg
- Added some diagnostic info on the PSO2 Update function - It should now tell you why it errored
- Added the ability to download UnRar.exe if it wasn't found with the Tweaker

6/1/2013 Changelog:
- Added the ability to update your PSO2 install from the Tweaker
- Added a few "Easter Eggs"
- Short patch (If you could connect before maintenance, you'll only download the new content/new files!)
- Normal long patch (downloading all invalid/missing files from all patches)

So people who play constantly can update about 80% faster with my tool than any other! But if you haven't played in a while, or want to check everything, you can still do the normal check for all files like the vanilla launcher does.
5/27/2013 Changelog:
- Removed the 7z.exe program and replaced it with UnRar.exe
- Revamped the extraction process - It *should* now work on ALL systems.
- Fixed the "Fix PSO2 EXEs" process
- Fixed various bugs
- Improved win32 directory detection

5/25/2013 Changelog:
- Fixed the "Patch 2 files not downloaded" bug in the "check for missing files"
- Added more diagnostic info
- Changed the filesize for clearing the logfile from 300 kb to 30 kb

5/24/2013 Changelog:

- Check to make sure the right directory is selected (FIXED)
- Added an option to clear the log when it gets sort of huge
- Have it remember "always on top" toggle status
- Create a version that works for XP users (FIXED - Need someone to verify)
- Added diagnostic info to the log - People who say the extracting is done instantly, please post new logs from this version so I can verify the problem!
- Fixed the issue with not finding the update info - This *shouldn't* happen again
- Added a bit of info when it opens, so you don't think it's frozen~

5/22/2013 Changelog:

- Fixed the random crashing on startup bug
- Re-disabled the "Check for updates button" (Was not supposed to be enabled!)
- Fixed the Story Patch URL
- Fixed the "backup already exists" bugs

5/21/2013 Changelog:

- Fixed the program taking about 10 seconds to start up
- Fixed a bug where if it couldn't check for a newer version, it crashed

5/19/2013 Changelog:

- Fixed the "check for missing files" routine, much faster and efficient!
- Added the "Install Story Patch" function, complete with backup option~
- Option to restore the backed-up files will be implemented next update
- Fixed the EN Patch process AGAIN, much smoother now!
- Added a "Always on top" toggle
- Rewrote the way errors are handled, it's MUCH better now~
- If the program encounters an error, it will offer to upload the log for you so you can just copy/paste the URL here for much easier troubleshooting
- Fixed some bugs

5/18/2013 Changelog:
- Rewrote the EN patch install process, so it should work with many, many, more people 100% correctly.
- Added a "Fix Vanilla EXEs", so that if your pso2launcher becomes corrupted, this will fix it.
Fixed the following bugs:
- Missing files are downloaded to the same directory as the program and never deleted. (FIXED)
- Announce "All done!" after downloading missing files~ (FIXED)
- Program is always on top (FIXED)[/spoiler-box]

[MetalDude]

Oh god, yes.

[Grady219]

So how would I go about getting it Aida? :P

[Shadowth117]

Two suggestions. Have it create a shortcut with the -pso2 attached so people who don't know what they're doing can just launch it like that rather than using your program everytime.

Second, have an option to swap the Vita and PC openings as well. Although... I wasn't aware there was a performance increase from their absense. I will have to see about that later.

[SociableTyrannosaur]

After opening this once, I assume the effects are static until an update from sega?

I ask because some people use and still want to use the english launcher(like me). Would be nice to know I(and others) can still use that if I(they) use this.

[Cyron Tanryoku]

Ability to remove the in-game server

[SociableTyrannosaur]

yeah I saw that and it took about 3 reads because I realized she meant censor. man if we could remove the ingame server...that would be epic

[Skyly HUmar]

Nice aida.

And i have a suggestion that i think every player would like. Make a button that lets you attack dudu and kill him, and once he dies everything you do to a weapon for 30 seconds will succeed 100% (can only kill dudu once a day).

[Meyfei]

I have a suggestion!

"Do it!" -> "BAM!"

Great program, can't wait to use it!

[ReaperTheAbsol]

Thank you very much, Aida.

[EvilMag]

Now find a way to make a no gameguard patch then this will be perfect.

[Mikessc88]

very awesome, now make it download and install the English patch for me

[Kierto]

Heh, I had some suspicion about those videos! And everyone I spoke to about it thought I was cray-cray. At least someone else can also be considered nuts. 8)

Thanks for this!

[Sparzyle]

Thank you very much AIDA ^^ even though the intro/logos video remover thing didn't work for me. At first it kinda looked promising then at the 4th click or something, the game frozen and stayed like that for minutes (maybe it's something related to my crappy PC).

The traditional way still faster for me but this still it's very useful for removing the censor file ^^ thanks

[Grady219]

The english patch part doesn't work for me. Whenever I load up PSO2 it's still in japanese. It says it extracted it but it didn't.

[Grady219]

Did you select your PSO2 win32 data directory first?

Yep. I've got the right directory selected.

Edit: Could it have something to do with me using Windows 7?

[Gama]

Yes, because I really have nothing better to do. This is my first VB.NET program, so any comments/suggestions/tweaks you want added are more than welcome.

http://i.snag.gy/6W1Wg.jpg

A link to show you it's not a virus:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/9f5cceb207bc9f633f830bf5350020035b378a7950e2ed0375 252daa16f3b8c8/analysis/1367569726/

Detection ratio: 0 / 46

At the moment, it's features:

- Ability to remove the in-game censor (CLIENT SIDE)
- Ability to disable the playback of the opening videos
- Can undo any changes done with the program
- Launch PSO2 directly instead of through a launcher
- Automatically download the LATEST English patch, and install it for you.

Next version will support checking your data files, finding which ones you don't have, and downloading them via a very fast HTTP so that you don't have to do the whole huge filecheck and wait 2352355235 hours for 2 files.

Download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23005008/PSO2%20Tweaker%2005-02-2013.zip

Remember to EXTRACT IT, then run it. If you don't, you won't be able to use the English patch feature.

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Q: Disabling the opening videos!? What do you mean!?

A: This removes the videos, so that PSO2 instead displays a black screen. I've noticed that when starting PSO2, it takes way more memory than it should to load the opening video - This disables it, so when it loads, just click 4 times (one click per disabled video) to get to the title screen. MUCH faster, and TBH, it seems like the game performs better as well. (Perhaps the movie isn't unloaded correctly from memory normally?)

Q: It gives me a "File not found error" when I try to get the new English patch. YOU SUCK AT CODING AIDA!

A: NAY GOOD SIR, IT IS THOU WHO SUCKS AT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. You need to extract BOTH files to the same directory, otherwise it won't be able to extract the file it downloads. *Hits you with a RTFM sign*

Q: THIS IS USELESS AIDA. YOU'RE USELESS. GO DIE IN A FIRE.

A: Some people wanted this, some people are not tech-savy enough to mess with the data folder. Open this after every patch, checkmark the boxes, apply and close. Bam!


AIDA i love you, lots of homo!

Sugestion:

SKIN IT! :D ill help!

[Grady219]

Try running it as admin?

Hit "Install English Patch", then look at the directory where you have the program. Does a file called "EN Patch.rar" appear?

Yeah it pops up and then once I click ok it deletes itself.

[Grady219]

In the log (At the bottom), what does it say after "Extracting to "?

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l324/grady219/Aida_zpse84efbf8.png

[Daemyn]

REMOVE OPENING VIDEOS YES ! thank you because ram use explosions are never fun when running more than just pso2 all the time :s

[Grady219]

Try running it as Admin?

I have it set to run as admin when I launch it. I tried it just by opening as admin as well and got the same result. :( Oh well... guess I can't be lazy with your launcher.

[Grady219]

It might be because the 7z program isn't running as admin. Lemme whip up a test version for you~

EDIT: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23005008/PSO2%20TweakerTestAdmin.exe

When I tried this time it threw an exception when I tried to install it. It downloaded the file, but it looks like it didn't have permission to extract it.

[Punisher106]

Aida, you're my hero. I dreamt of something like this.

[Gama]

placed the tweak tool and 7z.exe on the game directory, oncompatibility had "run as admin" and it worked fine.

[Grady219]

What exception? Did you put it with the 7z.exe file? I didn't include it with the one I made for you, just put it with the other one.

Oh sorry. That's why it threw the exception then. I put it with the 7z and still got the same result. Says it patched it but when I load the game, it's still in japanese.

[Mikessc88]

Oh wow you already implemented some changes. Good job *downloads*

[Grady219]

Right Click on 7z.exe, set compatability to run as admin. Then try?

No dice

Edit: We'd probly solve this faster if I talked to you with a messenger or something.

[aduran]

The textbox doesn't have a scrollbar but it says: restoring password. uploading password. ^^;


joke! lol

[Punisher106]

Okay, this is weird. First run, it works fine. Second time around, I load up the game, and it flat out doesn't respond. No amount of clicking makes it work again. I have to close it, and it's consistient. What's going on? ._.

[Noc Codez]

Aida you are simply amazing dude! Keep up the great work!!

[Grady219]

Okay, this is weird. First run, it works fine. Second time around, I load up the game, and it flat out doesn't respond. No amount of clicking makes it work again. I have to close it, and it's consistient. What's going on? ._.

Try running it as an admin when you launch it. I had that issue when I first tried it and that fixed that problem.

[Reia]

I would like to remove the game intro files manually, didn't find any thread that say which data files are. Also, this tweaker doesn't work with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

[Mekhana]

Hey Aida congratulations for coming up with such an amazing yet simple program.

I already told my entire team about it.

[Punisher106]

Are you talking about when you hit "Launch PSO2"? There's an issue with PSO2 where you exit the game, but it doesn't end the process. When you try to launch it, you don't see PSO2 still there, but PSO2 does, and prevents you from opening a second one. Look in task manager and end task "pso2.exe" if it's there. I'll write some code later to detect if this happens, and offer to close it for you.

If you're talking about PSO2 itself crashing, That's odd. Try restoring one video at a time, then trying again. Worse comes to worse, you can reverse all the changes you've made (except for the EN patch, but that's foolproof at this point.)
Well the game most definitely opens, and I get the little cursor that you'd see. But as I click, the game just does not respond, and clicking it enough makes it do that Windows whitening of the window to show it isn't responding. Reversing the changes and doing them again usually fixes the problem.

[dr apocalipsis]

I would like to remove the game intro files manually, didn't find any thread that say which data files are. Also, this tweaker doesn't work with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

It does. Just extract both in any folder, right click and Run as Administrator, browse PSO2 Win32 folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\PHANTASYSTARONLINE2\pso2_bin\data\win32 ), and that's it.

I wish program should be able to work selecting only SEGA folder. But after I figure out you have to go all the way to win32, thing worked.

Nice job. Always wanted a -nointro option for this game. Hope you can remove the need for 3 clicks in the future.

[SociableTyrannosaur]

works fine in win 7 pro 64. make sure you AV software isn't blocking it. mine put it in quarantine, so I had to make it an exception.

After doing that though, it worked great. installed the english patch and everything.

My only question is why is the vita/pc intro swap greyed out.

[Maronji]

My only question is why is the vita/pc intro swap greyed out.

If I had to guess, if it's supposed to be implemented and working, he probably just forgot to set something on that checkbox to "True" (or would it be "False"? I'm not entirely sure) somewhere.

Source: I've done stuff in VB.Net before (oh god, it feels like those times were so long ago (4 years at minimum)), and I've done things like that.

[Grady219]

Thanks for the help AIDA! Sorry about my computer being such a pain. Windows 7 is so bad.

[SociableTyrannosaur]

If you say so

[TaigaUC]

Using Win7 64-bit and it works here, thanks.
Careful not to use it on the precede folder (I did by accident).

Windows 7 (and Vista) removes or changes some minor functionality here and there that makes ordinary basic tasks vastly more difficult and time-consuming. They're not things most people would notice unless they really use their PC for a lot of tasks. I had to install tons of patches and mods to get most of the functionality back. It's just a pain up the ass.

[Arrow]

AIDA you just saved me approx. 2-7 mins of clicking and loading :D

So curious: I don't think PSO2 has one but is there a setting file that you could tap into so its a bit "easier" to set things like graphic quality and resolution etc. and throw it into you magical little program? (Then I would never probably use the launcher ever again ^^)

Oh and I'm curious as to what the swap pc/vita intro is for?

[Grady219]

I've noticed something about your program AIDA. If I launch PSO2 with it, I can't alt+tab out when I'm in fullscreen mode like I usually can.

[Arrow]

I could, but what specifically would you be looking for? A "set all settings to absolute minimum" button? lol


pfft nah I want a "set all settings to absolute maximum so I can blow up my computer" button.

In all seriousness you have it set up where you practically replaced the launcher. All it needs is an "options" tab and it'd be set.

Also what I was wondering is if it'd be possible to set it so it'd show one intro 100% of the time (I would figure that making the one seem like the other would do this...)...or is that what that swap button is for?

[Punisher106]

http://puu.sh/2MWch.png
Aida, this is what I'm seeing from time to time. I click a lot, not even a "pso2.exe is not responding" message box comes up.

[Arrow]

Aida, this is what I'm seeing from time to time. I click a lot, not even a "pso2.exe is not responding" message box comes up.

Heh... So how'd ya break it?
No, really, what'd ya do when ya tried to use the tweaker that lead to this?

I'm no tech expert, but it might be a case of selecting and patching within the win32 not at the win32...
so try reselecting the win32, maybe a misclick happened?

[Gama]

*was staring at game for like 10 minutes untill i figured i should click...

sometimes the game freezes if i overclick tho ._.

[Grady219]

http://puu.sh/2MWch.png
Aida, this is what I'm seeing from time to time. I click a lot, not even a "pso2.exe is not responding" message box comes up.

I believe this happens when you try to load up PSO2 again after closing it too soon. It seems like trying to open the second instance freezes the game.

[Sparzyle]

[SPOILER-BOX]http://puu.sh/2MWch.png[/SPOILER-BOX]
Aida, this is what I'm seeing from time to time. I click a lot, not even a "pso2.exe is not responding" message box comes up.
Hmm this was the problem that I used to had, try running the tweaker as a admin, that worked for me (or maybe clicking slower...)

[Punisher106]

I believe this happens when you try to load up PSO2 again after closing it too soon. It seems like trying to open the second instance freezes the game.
I'd actually open this for the first time in a day, and it does this.

Hmm this was the problem that I used to had, try running the tweaker as a admin, that worked for me (or maybe clicking slower...)

UAC is completely disabled, and I've been clicking slower and slower. :S

[raiden55]

Thanks for your work!

On the PSO configuration subject... an option to offer to switch between windowed and full screen may be useful ; I often crash with alt+tab (and lots of my team-mates also) and so the ability to go to windowed when I need to copy/paste a lot of Japanese names may be useful.

And concerning patches... can you do something about the big ones? When there's a game patch is horrible when you have the story patch, as you'll have to downaload tons of things, or thing everytime to have backfiles, a way to automate that would be very nice.

[Narrillnezzurh]

You don't need to start PSO2 with the tweaker, you can use it to remove the files then start PSO2 normally. I haven't had the black screen error since I stopped launching directly from the tweaker.

[Arrow]

Oh and this just made me realize....
This only puts in the base engrish patch and not the story patch? I haven't gotten around to testing so I dunno ^^;

[Arrow]

I might remove that feature altogether if it continues to cause issues.

I'd say leave it (or make two versions =w='') as It works beautifully for me. (saves another 1-2 minutes <3)


At the moment, yes. The story mode will be added later on~

Ah mk, I was going to say it didn't seem like it.
When you do add it that saves...another 1-2 minutes again :lol:

So grand total you saved za warudo about 10 minutes at an update (and a lot of clicking) and 2 minutes per launch of the game.

So let's say approx. 40-60 minutes (dependent upon how many opening and closing of the game there is) per week!

I love-!...uh I mean- we love you! Haha...ya...*AHEM* anyway~

[KT Vahltae]

The program isn't working for me. Every time I try to do anything, it just gives me an "Unhandled exception has occurred" error. Then when I try to install the english patch, it says it worked, but when I checked, it hasn't done anything. :C

[Grady219]

The program isn't working for me. Every time I try to do anything, it just gives me an "Unhandled exception has occurred" error. Then when I try to install the english patch, it says it worked, but when I checked, it hasn't done anything. :C

You need to move the PSO2 directory out of your program files folder and try it again. Try moving it to the root of your hard drive.

[Chik'Tikka]

very nice AIDA+^_^+ i may try it out, as for a feature I'd like? along with DL and install of English patches, perhaps have it back up the original JP files to a directory of our choosing?? at the moment after a maint (or more like when I'm not on PSO2 day or 2 after) once a month about, I'll file check then back up any files that were modified/created on the day i did the file check, but those files get old after a couple weeks and iz very tedious+^_^+
i know the EN launcher does that, but i don't really like the EN launcher much after playing with it, ended up going back to the OEM launcher+^_^+

[raiden55]

You mean while the game is open? Or before you launch it?

Wait you can do it while it's already launched?! :-o
Well if you can do that it would be pretty cool, but simply before would be enough

[Cagedtaytay]

I don't play PSO2, but obviously you are a GOD to PSO2 players.

[Meyfei]

I don't play PSO2, but obviously you are a GOD to PSO2 players.

*worships* Hail the Almighty GOD!

[KazukiQZ]

Wow 15000 files check under 1 min....O_O, no, 15 seconds!
Thanks a lot AIDA!

[Jungo Torii]

Faster filechecks? Sweet jesus, I need that. Dunno why it takes so goddamn long with the regular launcher.

[untrustful]

I would like to suggest a new feature. The ability to change the music for a given area, or at least alter it to play different, like a pse burst being applied to the music the whole time or something.

I know I recall there being limitations to this, like when the darker den music could only be applied to skyland or something, and it had the side effect of playing the arms/elder boss fight music for forest. But I'm okay with whatever can be done. Mainly because I dig the darker den music.

Here's a quote of the post I'm talking about:


Want to hear the Darker Nest music? Use LINK REMOVED (it doesn't work any more) and go to the floating continent.

(It also has the Arks Ship Wreckage music over forest, and the combat theme's the boss intro music there, so beware).

Doesn't work anymore now, but there's gotta be a way to make it work again right?

[Chik'Tikka]

Faster filechecks? Sweet jesus, I need that. Dunno why it takes so goddamn long with the regular launcher.

The only thing i can figure, and I'm not sure, this is just conjecture, is that the OEM launcher uncompresses each file and scans the entirety of the raw file for any missing, modified, or corrupt data+^_^+ that's the only thing i can think of that would make it take so long, unless it's scanning the files by comparing them in real time to a table provided by the Sega server, which has limited bandwidth and may suffer severe packet loss depending on distance and whatnot+^_^+ AIDA or one of the other EN Patch coders may be able to tell you why it takes so long+^_^+

Anyway, if you turn off the intro vid with this tool, does that also disable the vids in the lobby??

[Syklo]

Wow, this is a brilliant AIDEA.

Now add a feature to stop time so I can play for hours and hours and hours

[rise urbanus]

its not working for me...am not so smart....am i doing something wrong?

[Neith]

I get an unhandled exception error whenever I try installing the EN patch (tried moving PSO2 to the hard drive root and it still does it).

Rest of the tweaker works fine though, cheers!

[Galax]

It tells me it's not a valid Win32 application?

Am I doing something wrong?

[Noc Codez]

Try running it As Admin

[Idolon]

Was there really a need to skin the title bar as well? I can't move the window by dragging it any more.

[Grady219]

Was there really a need to skin the title bar as well? I can't move the window by dragging it any more.

You can move the window by grabbing anywhere on the window where there is no buttons.


Also, I made an icon for the program for my computer. I can send it to you to use for it if you want AIDA. :P

[XPKun]

This looks pretty neat. Good job~!

I assume that the intro videos can be disabled manually by removing them like the censor file so is it possible for anyone to provide the file names for those (SEGA, NVIDIA, PC/VITA OP)? Thanks.

[ZeGoose]

One question. Open the source up for some of us?

[Cyron Tanryoku]

AIDA should use the busy status so
You know
You don't hear the call

[Cypher_9]

This is pretty neat... and I like it already, the only thing that didn't come through for me is the installation of the EN patch.

Though everything else is okay, I probably missed something you said in the regard.

[rise urbanus]

right now everything works fine but the EN patch. but it say it installed it but it still don't work.

[yunamon]

Suggestion: Implement a blank video file for all the videos so that we skipped them altogether without the Esc button www

[Neith]

Did you extract the 7z.exe file too?

Yeah, extracted that as well. It's not really a huge problem for me (I play fine without the english patch anyway) but figured I'd bring it up.

[Idolon]

You can move the window by grabbing anywhere on the window where there is no buttons.

That is not the place that you use to drag windows around, but I guess it works.

[rise urbanus]

do I suppose to put the folder in some type of place? or can I put it anywhere? :o

[Drifting Fable]

A query, how much of the english patch is actually installed via the Tweaker?

Just the basic patch or large files included?

[Du1337]

But where do I need to extract? :(

[Chik'Tikka]

1st time using your tweaker tonight and i encountered a possible bug, it seems to be set to always on top and when i clicked install latest EN patch, the button for confirming it was all done was hidden underneath the tweaker, and attempting to place focus on the tweaker to move it seems to have triggered that windows "you must first hit OK on this window before focus can be applied" thing Windows likes to do sometimes, all the other confirm buttons seem to spawn on top of it, but all attempts to tun off it's always on top feature failed me, had to cancel it in tsk manager+^_^+ anyway, a toggle for always on top, if that is the issue, would also be a nicee addition+^_^+

btw, is this going to be open source? I'd very much like to look at it's inerds, i have Visual Studio 2010 and can get 2012 key as early as next week for free (yay for college softwarez!!)+^_^+

[JadeMaster43]

Problem~
I have tried to run as administrator but i cant get past or through the Sega logo thing
without this happening

http://i.imgur.com/OiA14kN.png

[NanananaBATMAN]

i think that i did something wrong, i extracted the file into my documents, clicked on the program ''PSO2 Tweaker''';
It says that its not a valid 32 bit application. Uhm, i'm using Windows XP 32 bit and i feel like a idiot right now. Please help me:-(

Edit: Woops, i thought that i read all the posts here but i guess i forgot the important one, it seems that i have to download the .net framework. Hehe, i really am an idiot ;)

[NanananaBATMAN]

okay, i downloaded the Net Framework.

It still says the same darn thing.

[Icecold]

sorry for noobing up this thread, but where do I extract the tweaker and 7z files?

[KazukiQZ]

sorry for noobing up this thread, but where do I extract the tweaker and 7z files?
Just extract it at a place you are familiar with, like in a folder on Dekstop. The important part is to set the path for the tweaker to work. You should find the option to do so when you open the tweaker :)

[Icecold]

Thanks Kazuki. I tried it out. Removing the movies in the beginning really made my game load better. The launch PSO2 button did not work however. It started pso2.exe in my processes but the game never launched. And I couldn't close the process nor start pso2 normally cause it would just say it was already running. Had to restart my computer entirely. Otherwise I'm liking the program so far just because the game starts so much smoother now that I cut the movies. Thanks for your hard work AIDA.

[Du1337]

I'll ask this again... Where do I extract the files from the zip?.. Ive had some errors.

[Meyfei]

I'll ask this again... Where do I extract the files from the zip?.. Ive had some errors.

Desktop -> right click -> new -> folder (Rename to anything you want to) -> Run the tweaker -> have fun?

Also what kind of errors? Got any text, pictures or description?

[Cyron Tanryoku]

Hows it work
You backup the files someplace and it downloads from there?

[ekrezem]

i think that i did something wrong, i extracted the file into my documents, clicked on the program ''PSO2 Tweaker''';
It says that its not a valid 32 bit application. Uhm, i'm using Windows XP 32 bit and i feel like a idiot right now. Please help me:-(

Edit: Woops, i thought that i read all the posts here but i guess i forgot the important one, it seems that i have to download the .net framework. Hehe, i really am an idiot ;)
Have the same case here, but idk what problem I have. Same message, though
I DO have these .Net Framework installed:
v1.0.3705
v1.1.4322
v2.0.50727
v3.5
v4.0.30319
It's still says "PSO Tweaker.exe not a valid Win32 application."
Is there anything I missed? I'm using Windows XP 32bit SP3 if that does anything^^;

[Chik'Tikka]

Have the same case here, but idk what problem I have. Same message, though
I DO have these .Net Framework installed:
v1.0.3705
v1.1.4322
v2.0.50727
v3.5
v4.0.30319
It's still says "PSO Tweaker.exe not a valid Win32 application."
Is there anything I missed? I'm using Windows XP 32bit SP3 if that does anything^^;

you need .net 4.5 for this one+^_^+ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

[ekrezem]

you need .net 4.5 for this one+^_^+ http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653

Eh... that one's for Win7 and up. It's not supported on Win XP anymore..
I guess AIDA should put a message for that then lol.

[Gama]

tweaker might give everyone an error now, since its unable to download the patch since its down, everything else should be working.

[Punisher106]

Exceptions. Hundreds of them.
I'll wait for this update of yours, Aida.

[Kaju122]

Does the Tweaker install the large files as well?

[KazukiQZ]

Does the Tweaker install the large files as well?
I think not. Because the download for EN patch is too quickly done, about less than a minute for me(the large file is 60MB).

The tweaker is still not updated yet, don't use the EN patch install. The new and updated English patch can be found somewhere else.

[Shinamori]

Are the download servers down? Gives me a 404 error when I try to download.



2f1c39a6d2ab2810e745c1c3da1a3d76
4385b777b907067d7694317062e3ceac
b243833b30f93e2cf67f982c5069c97a
ed717359731bde1fe76ec4c5f3392b57


I don't suppose anyone has these files (untouched) they can upload?

[KazukiQZ]

^What are you try to download?

[Shinamori]

Dunno. It's my first time playing in two weeks. It says I'm missing those files when I run the file check. We got a new internew service, so I dunno if there are ports I need to open for PSO2.

[Chik'Tikka]

Eh... that one's for Win7 and up. It's not supported on Win XP anymore..
I guess AIDA should put a message for that then lol.

you could always request it to be re-coded on .net 4.0.3 for XP(is possible with Visual Studio 2010, but 2012, which i think AIDA is using, it is not possible without workarounds, though M$ was supposed to patch that)+^_^+ you really aught to get a newer windows, what with XP support being pulled and whatnot+^_^+

@ AIDA, can you compile it with .net 4.0??

[KazukiQZ]

@Shinamori
Do you try to do file check from the tweaker? Because that's not working properly at the moment
Just use the original PSO2 launcher file check :)

[KazukiQZ]

First, this program will download the latest en patch automatically, no updates needed from me.

Working on implementing a "backup before patching" system now, along with a few nifty features (which patches are installed, are there newer versions, download of story patch direct from the program, etc)

But isn't the tweaker will download the old English patch (the one before Episode 2 update)? If I'm wrong, my bad then :)

More nifty function, the better 8) , keep up the good work AIDA

[Dragon_Knight]

I'm not sure if this has been brought up before so sorry if its a repeat. I just downloaded this for the first time...

Anyway I see this tweaker has a huge priority, so much so that when I start up PSO2 with it the tweaker window is still overlaid on top of the game screen/internet once everything starts. For the next version, if possible, can you make it so it can be minimized or perhaps moved? Right now I can't do either.

Still I do like this, and not having a huge amount of my comps mem eaten up by the game is about all I could want. 584k+ MB is too much for a game to run on. :\

[KazukiQZ]

^ You can minimize it, just press the Minimize Button on the tweaker. First let the game loading, then after few seconds, just click the Minimize button :D

Also, you can drag the tweaker by click and hold the left mouse button everywhere on tweaker EXCEPT the top bar.

[Dragon_Knight]

Well I can say the minimizer button doesn't work...I've tried it several times. Though thank you for telling me how to move it. >.< I would never have tried it elsewhere in the window.

[yukisama]

when i used it to check the files it worked fine for a bit then encountered an error. It's done this 3x now so I have to use the traditional updater >.> any reason this may be happening? The program doesn't seem to work for me at all and I know I have it in the correct folder and everything...

[WarSong]

I'd like it if the program would remind me what has already been done. Like a little check mark to verify that the program previously succeeded in doing any one of the listed functions. Maybe something toggle style? Maybe grey out options that had already been applied while enabling the option that reverses it.

I had noticed that when I launched the program it seemed I hadn't removed the intro videos, then remembered I had the last time I ran it.

[Haseokun]

I've got this page bookmarked. I'll be keeping tabs on the updates every other day or so. Looking forward to any new patches headed our way, thanks AIDA.

[KazukiQZ]

Some problem I encounter using the tweaker:
-After done the check of missing files, the buttons for Do It and Start PSO2 suddenly can't be used. So I had to reopen it again.
-When using Install latest patch, it encounter an error which said ' Can't find the path in...' Solve this one by manually creating the file (folder name is TEMPPATCHAIDAFOOL, that's the real name, please don't get mad at me >.<). So the patch is working after creating the folder in My Document

Few questions:
-Does the English patch include Large File? What is the function of Large File anyway?
-Story patch is 2Gb size right? And the one in ark-layers.com is always the latest one right?

Few suggestions:
-If Large File is somehow important (or some people want it), you can apply the option to download and apply the Large File. That is after the updated Large File is released.
-That's it. Thanks for your hard work AIDA :D

Tweaker version 1.4.0.0

[Haseokun]

Here we go. First off the launcher freezes after doing pretty much any task and has to be re-opened. Second off despite the program having errors it still says "Download Complete" when using the "Install latest EN Patch" button, but does not properly install the files as tested by using the "Launch PSO2" button after re-loading the program. It does not however become an "unresponsive program" after clicking the "Install latest EN Patch" button, nor does the program allow itself to be closed without bringing up Task Manager and selecting "End Task". The "Install latest Story Patch" button is also greyed out upon starting up the program, which is something I completely expected. I have not tried out the new "Fix PSO2 EXEs" button yet as I have no idea what it's future/current purpose could be.

[Grady219]

http://pastebin.com/RdN2Kv5f

Looks like your program doesn't delete its old backup files if you try to remove the files a second time, thus causing this error. I deleted the old backup files and it worked after that.

[Daemyn]

It does not like windows 8 very much :c claims it is not a valid OS even with compatibility mode for 7

http://pastebin.com/w7GAcR8Z

[Daemyn]

Windows 8 Pro 32bit.

I wonder if it might have to do with my having 7zip already installed :/

[Arcticx]

Uhm I have an issue, I installed the Story Patch and now I am unable to move, I am stuck in tutorial. Im just sitting there unable to move attack or use any of my keys on the keyboard.

[TekeTk]

I am in same spot as Arcticx. Stuck at tutorial and unable to move. I tried creating a new character on a different account but I also get stuck before character customization screen. Getting stuck everywhere~ wooo.

[The Redeemer]

And I'm still not credited http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/20/1368998716-bigeyes.png

[lytche]

I have experienced the same thing. I was starting the tutorial and everything loaded fine except I was unable to move.
I switched back to the japanese story files and apparently a box pops up in the Forest in the beginning of the Tutorial where a lady asks you something and you have 2 options to choose from. It does not load with the English story patch and I guess the game is waiting for you to make that choice which you are never given.
Anyway, I am still able to play with only the Basic English Patch installed which gives hints and, well, enables me to play at all, since I don't understand written Japanese at all and the spoken one like 1 out of 50 words so, yeah.
The thing is now that I have to play without the story being translated I really want to know what's going on :)

[Haseokun]

I am able to play with the basic 5-17 English Patch files. I have yet to experience any errors after installing Story Patch Files. I installed them last night and nothing changed, no glitches, no bugs, not freezing up during story missions. It sounds like the cause of people getting locked up in tutorial mode is having a new character in itself. I'm not willing to delete my character to test this myself. I am really looking forward to seeing the story. So far I've been watching it unfold untranslated on youtube.

[Arcticx]

If any of you are still experiencing the issues, uninstall the Story Patch, for some reason it seems to break the game.

[Cypher_9]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d63LKNrJ8JU

I have heard from others that they were successful on their endevor; just wondering why I'm not... ; ;

[Timefiller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d63LKNrJ8JU"]PSO2 Tweaker Test - YouTube

I have heard from others that they were successful on their endevor; just wondering why I'm not... ; ;

Make sure you extract the PSO2 Tweaker application.

It was something I didnt do, so thought I would mention it.

[UnLucky]

Well because I don't read, I gave your tweak the "PHANTASYSTARONLINE2" folder instead of "win32" at first and it wanted to do a massive file check because it found absolutely nothing.

No way to cancel it that I could see, so I had to kill it.

Also why's it take so long to start every time? Well compared to the actual launcher it's really fast, but still...

Pretty neat little program

[Cypher_9]

I'm guessing you have Windows 7/8? Copy the whole PHANTASYSTARONLINE2 folder to the root of the drive, reselect the folder in the program, and try again. Windows 7/8 HATE letting programs affect stuff in the Program Files folder, it's actually quite frustrating.

Just got to this now and have copied everything to the C:... re-routed paths. Still nothing, though I am still gonna twork with this...

I am on Win 8, and I know what you mean about the OS not allowing changes to be done to files directly.... speaking of... going to try something...

[Punisher106]

I've noticed that it doesn't really install the story patch. I downloaded it, directed it to where I had the downloaded file saved, and it said "Done!" suspiciously quickly. I went in to work on Chapter 8, they were still speaking in japanese! Come on, Aida, step up your game. >:c

But no, really, you should assess that issue.

[Maronji]

Make sure you extract the PSO2 Tweaker application.

I never understood why some people run programs out of the compressed archive instead of extracting it first. There was a visual novel download I ran across in my search for something else this one time that was essentially just a zipped up directory that you simply extracted and ran out of the box. What was the common problem? People were running the .exe out of the archive and kept finding that their save data was gone each time they started it. Why? Because it would normally be stored in the program directory, but the game didn't know how to handle saving data directly into a compressed archive. Imagine their reactions when they realized they had to extract it before their saves would work correctly.

I mean, I'm really computer-savvy compared to many people in my general location (I have to help out people I know with their computer problems because I'm essentially the only guy they know that can (besides my dad and my older brother, both of which have smaller availability windows than I do)), so maybe my thoughts on this are somewhat biased but... why would you ever run something out of the archive?

It's like that one saying goes: "Just because you can doesn't mean you should."

@AIDA: How's the "Check for updates" function coming along (or did you finish that and your screenshot is just old)? That's literally the only thing stopping me from using this app, is the lack of that function. Oh, the things I would do.

Also, in your To-Do list in the OP, I noticed that you might've forgotten to change/remove something:

- Allow users to download new patches directly from within the program (Done for EN, working on Story Patch)

[UnLucky]

I never understood why some people run programs out of the compressed archive instead of extracting it first.
So much faster and easier to just click it open, though! Also a lot of stuff is standalone, but yeah if it's got a whole directory tree in there then chances are you should probably wait a minute for it to copy over.

Also the OS could just open it as a "compressed folder" that looks near identical to normal uncompressed ones, depending on their unzipping programs installed.


Oh, and why doesn't the "always on top" option save?

[Maronji]

It WAS working fine, but now it's throwing out random 403 forbidden errors. I think it's SEGA though, as the official patcher is messing up as well.
Dang. Hopefully that gets resolved soon, as that's not fun for anyone, really.


You still can't download the story patch from inside the program. I'd like to change this, but until I implement a practical way to do so, it's gonna have to be "in the future".
Oh. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. Come to think of it, re-reading it again, I guess something glazed over my thought process, so I'm not entirely sure why I felt the need to bring attention to that.

I guess staying up really late (aka until noon the next day, then sleeping for six hours) will do that to you.

Note to self: Stop staying up late.

[The Redeemer]

CREDITS:

The Redeemer - For showing me how to pull SEGA's secret ninja patchlists <3~

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/21/1369123107-cool.png

[Aslinng]

Hello,

Today, I tried to open your launcher but it didn't work.
I had a message that told me to post here my log file.

http://pastebin.com/SuLxHuf9

I hope that will hemp you a bit.

[Cypher_9]

Messed with the added feature of "Checking for Updates":

http://pastebin.com/gkZY3Wc3

Everything passed (need to be re-downloaded) but the very last thing had [FAILED] - also my tinkering with the folder (allowing permissions) didn't work for me in the regard of installing the patches // I'll try this again - I'll do another video feed back if necessary...

Other than that, everything else works fine, you have done a great service!

[Laxedrane]

Apparently Nortan does not like this thing. Deleted the second I tried to run it without even asking first.

[yunamon]

Got this after 1st run... 2nd run onwards shows this error:

21/5/2013 22:51:30:

21/5/2013 22:51:30: ----------------------------------------
21/5/2013 22:51:30: Program opened successfully! Version 1.5.0.3
21/5/2013 22:51:30: Downloading Latest patch files...
21/5/2013 22:51:37: Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.Unhandle dExceptionEventArgs

[Punisher106]

http://pastebin.com/kuHcDYbw

Keep in mind the things that failed along the top I've resolved by deleting the .backup files. The issue is the fact that it didn't install the story patch.

[Nyraeus]

I'm also having this error


5/21/2013 3:25:49 PM: ----------------------------------------
5/21/2013 3:25:49 PM: Program opened successfully! Version 1.5.0.3
5/21/2013 3:25:49 PM: Downloading Latest patch files...
5/21/2013 3:25:56 PM: Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.Unhandle dExceptionEventArgs

[Timefiller]

I got this when I checked for missing files.

21/2013 9:48:24 PM: ----------------------------------------
5/21/2013 9:48:24 PM: Program opened successfully! Version 1.5.0.3
5/21/2013 9:48:25 PM: The remote server returned an error: (509) Bandwidth Error.
5/21/2013 9:48:25 PM: ERROR - The remote server returned an error: (509) Bandwidth Error.
5/21/2013 9:48:25 PM: Checking for updates, please wait a moment...
5/21/2013 9:48:26 PM: Opening patch file list...
5/21/2013 9:48:26 PM: Could not find file 'C:\Users\dustin\Downloads\PS02 Eng Patcher\PSO2 Tweaker\patchlist.txt'.
5/21/2013 9:48:26 PM: ERROR - Could not find file 'C:\...\PS02 Eng Patcher\PSO2 Tweaker\patchlist.txt'. [FAILED!]
5/21/2013 9:48:31 PM: Opening patch file list...
5/21/2013 9:48:31 PM: Could not find file 'C:\...\PS02 Eng Patcher\PSO2 Tweaker\patchlist.txt'.
5/21/2013 9:48:31 PM: ERROR - Could not find file 'C:\...\PS02 Eng Patcher\PSO2 Tweaker\patchlist.txt'. [FAILED!]

[ekrezem]

Thanks for the fix on the Tweaker last time (was on 1.5.0.1)
But the most recent version (0.7) is once again "not a valid Win32 Application" lol
And it seems to only work for the first time thou, since it have the "Startup crash" happening on my second time opening it and all. (On the version that worked for Win XP, it was 1.5.0.1 btw).
Any solution? Since both the newest and the version I used are not working now xD.

[Lostbob117]

The buttons should be rearranged, I didn't really touch this thing but I'm assuming that clicking "Install latest EN patch" will download it for you too? Which would leave out the large files and jp enemy names, correct? If that is the case I would replace the "do it!" with "Install Largefiles" and "Launch pso2" with "Get JP Enemy names". Then put "Do it!" in the top right corner and "Launch pso2" in the top left. But if "Install latest EN Patch" does Large files and jp enemy names then disregard this post.

[Lostbob117]

You should probably, y'know, try it before you complain like you usual-



Too late.

It doesn't automatically install those optional patches because they're not updated at the same time as the main english patch.


I'm not complaining.. I'm giving out an idea. I told you to disregard the post if it didn't work like that so you take it as me complaining, you obviously didn't listen. Good job, AIDA.

[Cyron Tanryoku]

Seriously, you two.

[Lostbob117]

However, even though I don't value your opinion much, you're entitled to it and I still listened and took your advice to heart and responded in a kind and orderly manner. I'm sorry that you had an issue with it, and I hope the rest of your day goes well.

Good day, sir.

Now, now you don't have to lie.

Seriously though, I feel like a villain on psow. Almost no matter what I say, is valued less than about all the others.

[ekrezem]

Sorry, I'm confused. 1.5.0.1 worked for you on XP using .NET framework 4.0?

First time, yes. Did removed the opening vid, glad there's no patch for today tho..
Just tried opening it again today just in case if there was a patch (when I was planning to), but since it crashes I don't bother. lol

[Haseokun]

First time, yes. Did removed the opening vid, glad there's no patch for today tho..
Just tried opening it again today just in case if there was a patch (when I was planning to), but since it crashes I don't bother. lol

Actually yes there is a new set of patch files that just came out today including new Large Patch Files. 05-22-2013 patch files are up.

[UnLucky]

It's not so much what you say, but it's how you say it.
He does have a point though.

Why is "Do it!" in the middle of a bunch of options it doesn't have anything to do with?

Clicking "Do it!" without selecting any of the checkboxes at the top does nothing. Clicking any of the other buttons at the bottom automatically 'does it' without having to click "Do it!"

If I was doing all the work, I'd make it look something like this:[SPOILER-BOX]http://i.imgur.com/ky5Eqet.png
Actually, the directory might be better at the very top.[/SPOILER-BOX]

Also why can't I reposition the window with click+drag?

[NoiseHERO]

Sorry if this was suggested in the last 20 pages but.

You guys gonna add an option that shrinks the HUD, till it's invisible? :0

[CaptainBetrayer]

Caught a problem with story patch.
*shrugs* Not too worried. Keep up the good work.

http://pastebin.com/4yx8p5nv

Thanks.

[VidulaSaix]

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, but where exactly do I extract the Story Patch with this tool? I tried the win32 folder but it instantly completed and didn't actually change anything in game.

Great tool by the way, and love the name. .Hack is one of my favorite series.

[NoiseHERO]

Is this possible? I was actually thinking about this the other day!

Yeah, if you mean in general. cyron does it in one of her vids,

If your fixer can do it, iono.

What you do exactly, I also don't know. <_>

[EvilMag]

I'm still hoping for a no gameguard patch.

[Cyron Tanryoku]

I did it in a few videos.

Anyway it like, shrinks every single interface, mugshot, and text.

I wouldn't really recommend it

[Chik'Tikka]

http://pastebin.com/HnJa65CQ +^_^+

had to reboot my machine to get it to work+^_^+

[iTz PooKiie xx]

Make this game better please!:)

Do what sakai can't! >:3

Will try out this tweaker tommorow:3

[DaiEden]

In what order am I supposed to do the patches? Right now I am re-installing the game because I got an error screen at the start of the game and it booted me out.

I think somewhere along the way as I was extracting the Story Patch files to the "win32" folder that everything went berserk. In the middle of that process, I was prompted to "replace and copy existing file" or "create a new file with a different name" or something like that, and I picked the replacement option. Did I do something wrong?

NOTE: When I clicked on "Check for missing files" a whole bunch of files were prompted and I had no idea what I did wrong. xD I feel so noobin' right now, but I want to get "tech savvy" and play this game! "North America release in early 2013" my butt lol

[CaptainBetrayer]

I'm running Windows 7 32 bit currently, till the PC upgrade next month.
I'll check this later if you need more info.

[Maronji]

In what order am I supposed to do the patches?
There is no order. They all have separate files from each other, so none of the patches overlap. It shouldn't matter.

Right now I am re-installing the game because I got an error screen at the start of the game and it booted me out.
...You probably could've settled for a file-check (third button on the launcher), downloaded way fewer files, and achieved the same effect (unless your game was that screwed up, in which case, I'd be more worried about your hard drive or internet connection integrity)... Just sayin'.

I think somewhere along the way as I was extracting the Story Patch files to the "win32" folder that everything went berserk. In the middle of that process, I was prompted to "replace and copy existing file" or "create a new file with a different name" or something like that, and I picked the replacement option. Did I do something wrong?
It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong. Seems like a standard patch installation procedure to me (unless you didn't make a backup of the folder/story files first (though if you're using the tweaker, it should prompt you if you want to make a backup first); then you screwed up, because the next time you have to file-check or the game updates, you'll have to download 1.5-2GB worth of files).

Basically, the manual patch installation instructions are like this:
[SPOILER-BOX]Required (only if using the Story Patch to shorten future file-check/update time): Make a backup of the files to be patched (or the whole win32 folder if you have the space and you're lazy, like me). Make sure that your folder is clean (aka you haven't applied any patches to it) before doing this or else you'll just waste time and HDD space.

Unpack the patches you want to use. They can either be in separate folders or in one folder; it doesn't really matter (hence there being no install order to the patches).
Copy the contents of the patches into the game's win32 folder. If you're installing the Story Patch, I sure hope you made a backup first.
When prompted, overwrite the files. If you don't, then your patches won't work. End of story.
[/SPOILER-BOX]

NOTE: When I clicked on "Check for missing files" a whole bunch of files were prompted and I had no idea what I did wrong. xD I feel so noobin' right now, but I want to get "tech savvy" and play this game! "North America release in early 2013" my butt lol
Did you point it to the game's win32 folder and not the main game folder? Despite the fact that it's very clearly written on the "Select PSO win32 folder" button, this seems to be a fairly common mistake (yeah, yeah, low sample size, whatever).

[DaiEden]

Thank you Maronji!

My hard drive and internet connection are both in great condition, so it can't be that. ^^

I tried that third button on the launcher and it said something was wrong, so yeah, I screwed up enough to have to re-install the game. It only took like 2-5 minutes for re-installation. :/

And yeah, I didn't see any directions anywhere about making a back-up (or I just missed those instructions most likely), but I'll keep that in mind.

I did point it to the exact "win32" folder. The path is like this, no?
C:/Program Files (x86)/SEGA/PHANTASYSTARONLINE2/pso2_bin/data/win32. This is exactly what I used.

Thanks for answering my questions and putting up with my noobishness. :D

[ekrezem]

Actually yes there is a new set of patch files that just came out today including new Large Patch Files. 05-22-2013 patch files are up.

Oh, thanks for telling. Didn't know because the 15th May Eng patch still worked...
P/S: I was referring to any random patch from SEGA, lol. Not from the eng patch.

@Aida
So is it possible to get some help on the "Not a valid Win32 application" problem?
I mentioned that it worked flawlessly (only for the first time) on 1.5.0.1
And yeah, I was on XP and I'm still on XP.

[Maronji]

Thank you Maronji!

[...]

You're welcome...

...but then everything seems to check out. Something went wrong, obviously, but I honestly couldn't tell you what, based off all that.

The only advice I can give you is to try the main English Patches (the Core and Large Files patches) first, then try adding the Story Patch after that. Of course, you should make sure your game loads at all first, but in theory, if everything's working, there shouldn't be any issues.

Just make sure you're using the latest versions of all the patches (5-22 for the Core and Large Files patches, 5-20 for the Story Patch). That would be the safest best (for now, at least).

[DaiEden]

This is what I keep getting. This long list of missing files. http://pastebin.com/CdU9CWmC

I did the Core mod, the Large Files, and then the Story patch and still I get this weird error (all the patches I tried to use are up-to-date). Any ideas?

(EDIT: I also tried running the game with no patches or anything and it runs smoothly. I have a problem with logging in though. I have already created the SEGA ID and all that, don't know what's going on. Every time I want to install the patches, something goes wrong. I'm really lost. Sorry.......)

[DaiEden]

This is what I keep getting. This long list of missing files. http://pastebin.com/CdU9CWmC

I did the Core mod, the Large Files, and then the Story patch and still I get this weird error (all the patches I tried to use are up-to-date). Any ideas?

(EDIT: I also tried running the game with no patches or anything and it runs smoothly. I have a problem with logging in though. I have already created the SEGA ID and all that, don't know what's going on. Every time I want to install the patches, something goes wrong. I'm really lost. Sorry.......)

Okay.... Well, do I need to update the game first before I do any of this?

(EDIT: After a lot of trial and error, I updated the game, put the patches, and everything runs normal. Now that I know how to do that, I will be using the launcher. ^^)

[ekrezem]

5/24/2013 Changelog:

- Check to make sure the right directory is selected (FIXED)
- Added an option to clear the log when it gets sort of huge
- Have it remember "always on top" toggle status
- Create a version that works for XP users (FIXED - Need someone to verify)
- Added diagnostic info to the log - People who say the extracting is done instantly, please post new logs from this version so I can verify the problem!
- Fixed the issue with not finding the update info - This *shouldn't* happen again
- Added a bit of info when it opens, so you don't think it's frozen~
Woo for a working version:beer:
Tried to see how the backup worked, so I only bothered with the Eng patch (Not story)
Got into a problem here: http://pastebin.com/tP3tLFPB
Edit: Tried with Story Patch as well, and same problem I think: http://pastebin.com/96Kg12X2 (this one's mixed with a bit from Eng Patch, was testing this and that)

And you mentioned "Need someone to verify it works for XP users", do you mean verify its executable or being able to do all the things you've put onto the Tweaker? Since I don't really use all of them.

If its just being executable, then yes, it works.

[Vanelle]

Okay so first off, I am very computer literate. Second, I have used the English patch since it's very initial release.

It was maybe about a week ago that I descovered AIDA's Tool. At the time I was in game using a slightly elder patch. (Was too lazy to update my ENG and Story patches but they were working full force anyway so I didn't particularly care. Now my team mates were discussing ENG patch and that eventually got me to updating just cause. I did that and updated story patch. Initially, aside from the fact the story patch was broken (Freezing during story quests), Everything was English. I closed my game and (After placing AIDA's tool along with the 7z.exe file into my installation directory (...\Desktop\PHANTASY STAR ONLINE 2\pso_bin\data\win32) which has been there since day one, I ran AIDA's tool. Looked VERY awesome, very sweet. However when i ran it it was like swiss cheeze. Full of holes, problems and flaws. At first I thought maybe my files were just beyond messed up cause after a bunch of things in AIDA's tool failed to do it's stuff, my game showed 0 signs of change. (Yes i choose the correct path.) More over. Everything was Japanese. I found it odd so I manually patched the game with the latest English files but when I loaded up the game (From the original JP launcher (And have used the English launcher a month after release once and never again cause i hated waiting 5 minutes for it to patch then unpatch when done) and found that everything was STILL japanese.

I then attempted (Via the 3rd JP launcher button) to redownload SEGA's official files and then repatch. Game, still japanese. to this very day that is my problem and they added a lot of stuff in the game so now...I'm suddenly playing the game blindly and am not too keen on it.

Does anyone know what I should do? Please keep in mind that I'm not an Idiot so please don't suggest text book solutions like "Press the 3rd button then repatch (Especially since i said i did >->) or "Uninstall and Reinstall" cause it won't work. How do I know? because nothing in my files have changed aside from AIDA's tool's additions. And if AIDA is as much of a genius as she claims to be and that her program is as flawless as can be...then that shouldn't be the problem.

I would've done as instructed and paste a log from her tool to the site but. About 500 error logs showed up. Some may have that kind of patience, but not me.

[Cyron Tanryoku]

...did you run the tool as an administrator?

Meh just manually patch, it's what I do

[Vanelle]

Quote: "I found it odd so I manually patched the game with the latest English files but when I loaded up the game (From the original JP launcher (And have used the English launcher a month after release once and never again cause i hated waiting 5 minutes for it to patch then unpatch when done) and found that everything was STILL japanese."

...did you run the tool as an administrator?

Meh just manually patch, it's what I do

[Vanelle]

Also to whomever moved my thread to here, I don't think I'll get any help here as at the end of my post I stated that I reinstalled official SEGA files and repatched manually and still had the game in japanese so i doubt this is the Tool's doing.

[NoiseHERO]

Cool you're gonna add my suggestion *________ *

Gonna try it.

[Xyloto]

Um hi, I'm new at the site so please forgive derpings I commit ><

I'm having some troubles with the game, i wanted to remove the video files like the crap at the opening of the game and...well i think removing them worked but when I played they were all still there. then after some time i used the tool's update feature and it took like two hours and must have found like...2 million missing files. I was kind of worried to be honest. I played the game mission 100,000 files or more and yet the game didn't seem to mind o.O

So anyway, I went ingame one day but instead of the sega logo, it...froze i guess.
I tried clicking and such but nothing happened :c

I tried restoring the video files within the tool but it said there were no back ups :/
The censor file is the only thing i can successfully remove/restore.

I added the logs I took from the tool if it will help.

Error Log (http://pastebin.com/ZvVHsski)

Now that i think on it, the tool keeps saying that it can't connect to something and that maybe it's broken.

I also tried swapping the PC/Vita openings and to my...well it worked...Idk how it can switch files yet not find and remove/restore it buuut...help? :3 I reeeally love this game and I really don't want to have to reinstall 8GB of data especially since this whole mess must of had me downloading much more then that in files worth
><

EDIT: Sorry...I derped. I just tried removing the files and it worked...which confuses me even more cause...gah @~@

EDIT 2: And now my game is forcing an File check? :/ I can't make heads or tails of this business lol..

[RA-Kaede]

http://pastebin.com/ZiJq8WUB

Using Windows7 and my PHANTASYSTAR2 folder is in the root of C:
EN Patch doesnt seem to apply ): anything I could do?

[RA-Kaede]

^ Here it is
http://pastebin.com/UNMVqh5s

[Xyloto]

Yes I put it to that cause for some reason there were a bunch of new files and another win32 folder so i was curious if maybe the directories have changed or something.

Might I suggest perhaps that you use an explorer window to find the directory instead of drop menus? For easy of access and such? Feel free to ignore ^^;

also I've been running the file check for nearly 3 hours now and it's maybe... 1/5th done u_u oh man my data bill is gonna be off the charts...


Anyway if this doesn't solve my problem then I'm quitting pso and praying Sega will unhate us and deliver us with a Western release lol.

[Xyloto]

Well I mean I'm the kind of person who gets...a bit TOO curious for his own good...so it could be possible that...maybe I did something..and...created those extra files...but for some reason I have no clue what that could be xD

I'm a tad air headed and I make really beyond retarded mistakes at times. And considering how I was tested and have an IQ of 187...it's not even funny how much I giga derp LOL

anyway the SEGA patcher says it's downloading. About an hour after my last post it went from
"Downloading: 36XX" to "Downloading: 5637"

Now I know I can't be missing all those files cause I ran the Update thing from your tool yesterday and it was downloading crap for literally 3-4 hours! xD

Also I don't know if this means anything, but I always manually patch my stuff cause I'm scared to death of automated stuff (Since my install directories are usually custom). but i noticed something weird. every time before i patched the game, the EN Patch files were always much greater then the original (It gave me a hint everything was good and smooth) but now whenever I patch both files are the exact same sizes, yet in game its Japanese?
o.O

Ik this doesn't have anything to do with my situation but considering how bad I am with luck and all things everything, I was wondering if maybe someone else had a similar issue?

[Xyloto]

yeah...the most retarded and impossible things happen to me. Have luck so bad it made me believe in bad luck xD

[Xyloto]

Yeah so after maybe 6 hours of it downloading the files. It tells me at the very end that the download failed. I used up what seems like 30gb in 2 days only to be denied and forced to restart all over again. :/ I'm done with this game for a while.
Thanks Aida for your help but there's not much hope for this case :c

[ekrezem]

Aida, where do I need to extract the Tweaker exactly? I extract it on another folder, just saying.
http://pastebin.com/NVzbH1BD
Still getting the same message
Downloading EN patch, please wait...
Download complete! (Downloaded http://hiigara.arghargh200.net/pso2/patch_2013_05_22.rar)
ERROR - The system cannot find the file specified [FAILED!]
Is it because I'm supposed to extract it somewhere else?

Edit: Derp.. Is it related with this question on your FAQ?

Q: It gives me a "File not found error" when I try to get the new English patch. YOU SUCK AT CODING AIDA!

A: NAY GOOD SIR, IT IS THOU WHO SUCKS AT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS. You need to extract BOTH files to the same directory, otherwise it won't be able to extract the file it downloads. *Hits you with a RTFM sign*
If so, do you mean BOTH the Tweaker and the 7z.exe? If the other one is the 7z.exe, no, I can't open it at all since the working version lol. It gives off the same ".... is not a valid Win32 application." message

[Ryo]

Hi Aida,

I'm new to this, but I tried running the "Fix PSO EXEs" to fix some of the slowness I'm experiencing launching, but the app just locked up after sending me to pastebin. Here's the log:

http://pastebin.com/TqTJ9T8k

[Xyloto]

So AIDA? I just downloaded the latest version of your tool. Would I be better off using the "Check for missing Files" Function of your tool? Or Risking a PSO2JP Launcher File Check again?

[Xyloto]

No problems~ Thanks alot. I can't do anything anyways cause my net provider has been hating my family for absolutely no reason over the past few days. Randomly killing our net, cutting our availability to 60gigs a month while we're paying for thrice that. Gotta love that hate sometimes.

Have a good night and day :3

[kazuyaowns]

Hi Aida,

I'm new to this, but I tried running the "Fix PSO EXEs" to fix some of the slowness I'm experiencing launching, but the app just locked up after sending me to pastebin. Here's the log:

http://pastebin.com/TqTJ9T8k

Same error here. Anyone know how to fix?

Im using windows 8 Pro x64

[DreXxiN]

So, while attempting to do a clean reinstall after having the sound-always-muted error, I got an error while trying to replace missing files. It was going well for over an hour (and there was a LOT of files to replace) but then this happened. Forgot to update to the new version, will see if the problem persists. :)

http://pastebin.com/rp0355wP

Thanks again for the hard work!

[kazuyaowns]

Well, FIX PSO2 exes working. But my pso2updater dont open :/ Anyway, i do check missing files, and have a lot missing, installing by tweaker, too see what comes now..

Anyway, thank you for the fast update AIDA ;)

Edit: When the programa go for download and installing: "The file c2f706fd41bed9c8d8e90d98cdbcd076 is missing." The program just dont answer anymore.

Anyone knows how to fix ? :/ I have install like 3000 files :/

If i start the game, i get a black screen after cinematic. If i try pso2updater the program just dont start, if i go pso2launcher, the program try go update, i get a error:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/3157/imagelzk.png

Damn this game -.-

[DreXxiN]

Alright, so after the update, here's the new pastebin. Turns out I still get hit by an error. This time "The Operation has timed out." since I left it running AFK. Attempting a rerun now and will edit this post in the meanwhile.

http://pastebin.com/Lgq6vxKZ

EDIT - Looks like it hangs on file #15935. Attempting again after it timed out to see if it'll go further.

EDIT 2 - After hanging for a bit, the File Check finally completed, but I just get a Black window with this specific PSO2 install. My other install still works, so not sure if the file check worked correctly. Installed the English patch, tried again, still black screen. Will attempt the "FIX PSO2 EXEs" to see if it fixes it. The JP patcher is downloading files when PSO2 Tweaker stated it as complete [OK!]. Will see if this resolves the issue.

EDIT 3 -Alright, so using the actual launcher allows it to work and I now have a freshly installed PSO2. Problem is I still have no sound and it still doesn't appear in the volume mixer...Lol. What a bizarre issue...

[Mohako]

hi i keep getting some error message

http://pastebin.com/DASnAVPt

any tips?

[DreXxiN]

Hey AIDA, thanks for the help but I have fixed it...by clean re-installing directX apparently. I don't even know how that make sense but...being desperate brings results, lol. I have audio again, everything else is running fine so no worries. ^^

[Grady219]

I can't find the free hug button :(

[DreXxiN]

I'm not entirely sure if this is launcher related or not as I didn't have it on my prior installation which didn't utilize the launcher, but now everything is fine except for this.

http://i.imgur.com/Q5fo5ca.png

I'll do a quick search around the tech support forum to see if others have related problems. Thanks again for all the effort you put in for English users ;).

[Meji]

[SPOILER-BOX]http://i.imgur.com/Q5fo5ca.png[/SPOILER-BOX]
As far as I know, this is a graphics reading error. I've gotten it several times randomly, and I don't have the Eng patch nor the PSO Tweaker installed.

My guess is that it's only bad programming on SEGA's end. Do you by any chance run on a nVidia graphics card?

[DreXxiN]

As far as I know, this is a graphics reading error. I've gotten it several times randomly, and I don't have the Eng patch nor the PSO Tweaker installed.

My guess is that it's only bad programming on SEGA's end. Do you by any chance run on a nVidia graphics card?

Yes sir. Nvidia GTX470, and am using the most recent drivers that came out a few days ago...perhaps that is the culprit. I went ahead and installed the new beta drivers, I'll update with results in a more suitable thread most likely if it helps out.

[Joe 101]

Hi everyone... i was wondering if anyone knows how to apply the story patch to pso2...i have the english patch. i heard about the story patch... was just wondering if it worked...
thanks!

[CaptainBetrayer]

Tweaker's working just fine, now. Story patch and all. Thanks for all the hard work, you're really helping a lot.

[ekrezem]

Hm.. wonder what went wrong here >>
http://pastebin.com/TxFfZ1Hr
Still not possible to find downloaded file (english patch), and idk what I did wrong at all
Also, 7-zip Unavailable? I have it installed on my PC.
Then again, how about making a simple how-to vid? Might help, since idk where or what I did wrong at all.

[Emberghost]

You have put the UnRAR.exe into the same directory as the PSO Tweaker.exe? The Tweaker uses that .exe to unpack stuff, not your installed unrar software.

If you already have both .exes in the same directory I may be false, but I hope this helps you.

(Also have the line "7zip available: False" in my logfile, but guess that doesn't mean anything, as it works fine for me. Maybe this is associated with the old 7zip.exe that was used in older versions.)

[ekrezem]

You have put the UnRAR.exe into the same directory as the PSO Tweaker.exe? The Tweaker uses that .exe to unpack stuff, not your installed unrar software.

If you already have both .exes in the same directory I may be false, but I hope this helps you.

(Also have the line "7zip available: False" in my logfile, but guess that doesn't mean anything, as it works fine for me. Maybe this is associated with the old 7zip.exe that was used in older versions.)

Isn't it automatically in one archive/rar?
If what you meant is to put it into win32 folder, then no I haven't put it there.

[Emberghost]

Both files are downloaded in the same archive, but you are ment to unpack both of them and place them together into a normal directory. (Like the win32 folder of PSO2, but you can put them anywhere really.) Starting the .exe while it is in the archive won't work to full extend.

If you have unpacked both of them and put them into the same directory I have no idea what's wrong. //EDIT: Too slow of me.

@AIDA: Well good to hear you are working so hard on it. Appreciate your work. ^^

[Maximilliano Lexa]

AIDA are you a girl? ^_^
BTW, loving your tweaker program, really making my PSO2 experience better

[Aslinng]

Hi,

Will the story patch work with the new vesion of your tweaker ?

[ContinuumXIX]

http://pastebin.com/QiGeXwJq
I don't get why every time I try to install the story and English patches through this, it always gives me this message. :l
It also freezes the program. :x

[ekrezem]

You have to EXTRACT both files to the same folder before you can use it~
So.. I have to open the UnRar exe, yes?
I opened it and it closed in less than a second for no reason. Made an empty folder named "TEMPPATCHAIDAFOOL" though lol

[Xyloto]

Hey I'm back :)
Not sure if this is the best place for this but
I managed to fix my black screen freeze issue but every time I patch (Copy/Paste) the English Files into my data/win32 folder and go in game everything is still japanese.
More over, whenever I try launching PSO2 from The Tweaker or the English Launcher Gameguard pops up and says "Yo shyt is broken son. Send dem files to us."
But it launches just fine from the JP launcher :/ any ideas?

EDIT: Premature send sorry

[Maenara]

After using install EN Patch after the latest update, everything was still in Japanese, though I had no type of crashing or blackscreening.

[Xyloto]

That's very odd o.o I'll put in some tools in the next version to help you out.

Thanks a lot AIDA you're awesome ^-^

[Xyloto]

Nevermind I solved my translation problems. Interestingly enough a .dll file was somehow interfering with translation from JP to EN which...doesn't make much sense but after deleting it pso2 was EN o.O

[ekrezem]

Uh, no. You have to EXTRACT them both to the same Folder.

...Put PSO2 Tweaker.exe in the same place as UnRar.exe

Extracted everything here and there to no avail:nerd:
I extracted the PSO2 Tweaker.exe and UnRar.exe with 7zip, extracting onto the PSO2 Tweaker folder itself

[Xyloto]

What file?



That's really odd - Do you have Skype?

In the end it was just being stupid and random. I tried redownloading the install but...when i tried to run set up...

http://i43.tinypic.com/hwa0sm.jpg

Is it because it's on my C:\ Drive?

EDIT: Yep. That's why.

[ekrezem]

That's really odd - Do you have Skype?
I do, but I don't use it anymore^^;
I guess I'll just stick with manual backup'ing...
Anyway, is there a need to always re-download the Story Patch files every update? Would be nice to know, thanks.

[DreXxiN]

Thanks again, Aida!

I had a question about your filechecking and updater. Do you have all of the files on your own server or something? I just find it strange that it'd download and go through with all the procedures faster if it was still downloading from Japan.

Also, got this. http://pastebin.com/HkFJHvu8 Going to see if I can alleviate it by running a full scan.

[NeverDT]

Getting this error:

http://pastebin.com/QiTtDiDU

Dumb check:

PSO2 Tweaker.exe and UnRAR.exe are in the same directory
PSO2 main folder is in C:\
.NET framework is installed (just downloaded it and restarted it a little while ago)

There's not a certain directory the .exes need to be in as long as they're together, is there?

[Snowwolf]

so does your program download all the patches you would need to play the game? (using the missing files button/ update button) or am i still gonna have to use the jap patches through the main game?

Cuz using the Japanese patch system cuts out after so long and i have to restart the download (so i can download it over night like i want to) ive heard that it keeps what its already downloaded but ive also heard that its taken up to a week to download the game (really wanna play the game right now)

[Snowwolf]

hey tweeker told me to post this for ya
http://pastebin.com/ry9t5rHa

[ChrisFTW]

This fixed my update error! You rock! :)

[NeverDT]

Still getting the same error blah.

http://pastebin.com/vsTxt92N

[Meyfei]

How do i do the story patch updates- just download them, insert to a folder, and direct the tweaker to that folder? Will it patch all in or just 1 at a time? x_x MB's are boring when you can't read them...

[Snowwolf]

thanks aida

[Meyfei]

Thanks AIDA! :D
Keep up the awesome work!

[Sels]

Something went wrong, told me to bug you here with this pasta:

http://pastebin.com/CJ0BMG6e

Its trying to find script\user_default.pso2 in current directory but that one is in the pso2 win32 folder.

[Niris]

It keeps on freezing. :(

[Sels]

Ah, there's the bug! Thanks, that helps a LOT. It'll be fixed by tonight~


Glad I could help. I just fixed it by moving the tweaker to the win32 folder and running it there.

Also, while doing that I noticed several of the files have the tiny lock icon indicating they are private but in a public dir, I assume those are the files the tweaker is downloading. I doubt it would cause any issues in most systems but I tought I would give you a heads up anyway.

[Niris]

Ah, there's the bug! Thanks, that helps a LOT. It'll be fixed by tonight~



What do you mean? I need more information.

Well it seems difficult to minimize and bring back up since it runs on top of everything. After awhile of minimizing and pulling it back up it just stops responding and windows has to close it. I'm not trying to be angry whiner or anything it just seems to work better when I'm away from my comp. If I'm trying to multitask it gets disrupted apparently. I definitely made some solid head way over night while I was asleep before my wireless tripped up and dc'd.

[Niris]

You can turn the "Always on Top" on and off :p I might make an option to choose whether you want it skinned or not, though.

Also, bugfix! New version should fix some of the "checking for updates" crashes people have been having.Ohhhhhh dats what that button does.^^; K thanks heres some tuna. :tuna:

I'll start it back up when I go to class. Its runs better when I'm not clicking it every 10 seconds to see the progress.

[Niris]

Ohhhhhh dats what that button does.^^; K thanks heres some tuna. :tuna:

I'll start it back up when I go to class. Its runs better when I'm not clicking it every 10 seconds to see the progress. Sorry for the double post. I just got back from class and found it frozen on my desktop again. Windows had to close it I tried waiting for it to respond it would not. Reading further back in the thread I'm assuming its something on my end that is not agreeing with the launcher. I think I'm almost there. I'm just gonna sit back and babysit the JPlauncher through the last few gigs.

I wouldn't look into it too much its probably just an AV or something on my comp. You have cool tool there thats helping alot of people keep up the good work.

[Niris]

It might have been downloading a large file - I'll see about adding a download bar in there or something to let you know what it's doing.

One thing that has me alittle concerned is that I have alternated between the JP launcher and the tweaker afew times. Is this going to somehow mess up the initial patching causing these last two and a half days to be a waste?

[Macman]

Gave this a shot and a little sad that it doesn't support the precede downloads.
That's what's giving me the most trouble right now due to the crappy JP launcher forcing a filecheck every time I restart it due to connection being dropped.

Any plans for implementing it? Unless I'm blind and missed something...

[Tsumiya]

Very good and useful! Thank you so much for developing this ❤ ☆

[KazukiQZ]

AIDA, can the tweaker download the 12th June pre-patch, and also the patch later on the day?

[UnLucky]

Welp my launcher is forever frozen on file 9854

This is all your fault, AIDA

[Cyron Tanryoku]

Did you ever explain how the patch works.
Like you download the patch yourself and upload it on your own server for people that didn't download as soon as they could, or is it connected to like..the actual patch location?

[Cyron Tanryoku]

Good good

[Aslinng]

Have fun and thanks for your hardwork. :)

[st2013]

Hey Aida, just wanted to drop in here and say thanks. I started the process of registering/downloading the game a couple days ago and it's been kind of a pain but I've noticed that a ton of the online information/downloads to streamline the whole process come from you. It is much appreciated.

[st2013]

Thanks ^^



Glad to hear I could help! What parts were a pain though? I'm guessing the SEGA ID registration page and such?

Feedback is important! :P

Yeah, definitely the registration pages. And then the updater kept locking up on me. The tweaker seems to be updating just fine as we speak. I'll be leaving for work here in a few minutes but I should FINALLY be able to log on tonight when I get home.

[UnLucky]

So does the tweaker restore backups yet, or do you have to do that manually?

[Tripaholic]

I just wanted to say Thanks! for making this and continuing to put more work into it. After hitting the front page month after month hoping for an update from Sega with any sort of info on the western release, I decided to attempt playing again with the English patches and came to the forum to find out what I needed to do. I found this topic and downloaded your Tweaker and it did everything for me without any problems. Thanks again!

[musicmf]

Thanks for the Tweaker Program!

I'm wondering though, why is it defaulted to Always On Top?

It seems that the program doesn't take much time to use, you can always maximize it if you need it, and once your done with it you can close it.
I always just un-tick that whenever I update the program, so I was just curious.

With that train of thought, I also have a suggested feature;
Either a tick-box; [ ] Close Tweaker after Launching PSO2
or a button; "Launch PSO2, then Close Tweaker"

Since I just close it after I'm done with it, I figured this could be something myself and others may be able to use?

[ContinuumXIX]

Any idea why the original launcher poofed off my computer and this happend?
http://pastebin.com/chg1raKP
Also I seem to be having some wierd error that says that there's a application error, preventing me from playing the game. It keeps saying The instuction at 0x00f78975 referenced memory at 0x00000044. The memory could not be read. :x
Then forces me to exit.

[Rheemuah]

Hi, I've new to this community and PSO2.
I love the Tweaker - it downloaded all my files in a less amount of time than the original updater!
But I still get an error, when I launch the game from the Tweaker and the original launcher.
2773
I uninstalled my antivirus, I've made sure Windows Firewall accepted PSO2, I made sure I ran as admin, changed the compatibility to my OS, and yeah. Help? ):
Specs:
Win7 64-bit
4.0 GB RAM
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo T5800 2.00Ghz
Display adapter: Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family

[Jei182]

This looks pretty useful. I downloaded the game last week and had a blue screen today because I'm sure I did something wrong. Once I get finish redownloading the original files I may get the tweaker and just use it to update. Sounds like a very nice tool.

[MetalDude]

http://pastebin.com/D8RvJXQC

Getting this error and still got it before with the last version.

[Blacksiberian]

http://pastebin.com/2Y6E2Ftx

this NP0 this is impossible

[Blacksiberian]

I also cannot seem to update my PSO2 exe file. something is blocking it, would you happen to know what is?

http://pastebin.com/Vww0uh94

[MetalDude]

B-but, that's what I did ;.;
It linked me to 1.5.0.3 for whatever reason. I got the right version this time but that was odd.

EDIT: Welp, AVG trashed my launcher file upon trying to boot up the game and it gave me some shitty memory exception when I told it to fuck off. I uninstalled it and tried to redownload it using the tweaker but...
http://pastebin.com/8m3fjLYw

I forgot how fucking awful it is to try and reinstall this game.

EDIT EDIT: And... it's working now. This game makes no sense sometimes.

[XTSuperStar]

So i have 2.0.0.4 but when i "check for PSO2 updates" this tool tells me there are 6k files left.
it downloads it but not in the win32 folder (which this tool knows where it is), no it downloads it to C:/

When i click on "check for missing files" i only get this error http://pastebin.com/pb8tNCXZ/

Game does start i see sega screen but when i click only black screen appears and cursor reappears in the game window.
Whats this

Cant access game options menu in the tweaker its grey'd out.

Seems like this shit isnt working at all.

[XTSuperStar]

What's the directory you have selected?

C:\Program Files (x86)\PHANTASYSTARONLINE2\pso2_bin\win32



This... is actually my fault. I'm not sure why I had changed it, I just fixed it, I'll upload the new version ASAP. Sorry about that!

thx for fixing it :P



It worked - Just click 4 - 5 times and the main screen will show~

I have to try later cuz i need to redownload the game, my launcher was deleted somehow AND I GOT SICK OF THIS SHIT :(


It's not available yet, that's why it's not enabled.

too bad, but i can use english launcher i guess.

[XTSuperStar]

OK so i installed the whole thing and the same shit happens with the game.

I can see the Segalogo, the nvidialogo, the intro.
But then BLACK. I can hit alt+f4 and hear the game asking to quit and i can select with keyboard arrows but i dont see shit.

Is this fixable, i tried many options in the graphics options of the game but no success.
This game is so terible.


Regarding your program.
IT EATS THE LAUNCHER.

http://pastebin.com/N8vjDRr6

Inow the 2. time so yes it does it.

My Backup launcher doesnt work btw so yea u fucked my install again.

[Niris]

HAPPY SATURDAY! :nerd::nerd::nerd:

[XTSuperStar]

thx for the launcher.

What exactly does it fix? didnt find information on it.

I'm missing 6k files when i check current installation, which is after the regular updateing process.

The download server are made of wood :(

EDIT

OK SO AFTER THE DOWNLOAD OF THE additional 6,7k files (with dl speed of 0.3 MB/s ø) the game finally gives me shit to play.

fucking shit :P

[shagia]

now THIS is perfect. defo will start using it for the next update, I don't mind the other stuff. thanks AIDA. :D

[Arrow]

Hey Aida,
I got a weird Request for ya:
Could ya put in an option to un-automate yer magic thing so it doesn't automatically update stuff when I don't want it to?

Also an option thing so I can tell it where things are, cause it's saying it can't find game's exe files and patchlists. Though I think something just blew up cause it's been so long since I last updated the game.

Also is it just me or is it no longer being contained in w/e folder I put it in...
I'm seeing what I call registry files on my desktop (files with numbers and letters that seem random for names)

[Meyfei]

Again, no idea what you're talking about. Try taking some screenshots? ^^;
I think he's seeing patch files on his desktop since they are kinda named with bunches of numbers/letters right?

[Arrow]

It doesn't "automatically" update anything. o_O Could you be a bit more specific, sorry ^^;



Not sure if this is what you're talking about - But there's a button called "Select PSO2 win32 folder". That sets where everything is.



Again, no idea what you're talking about. Try taking some screenshots? ^^;

- It doesn't update things automatically? I thought it did...

- Anyway I figured out what my problem was: I think I managed to push your program to the limit because last I played pso2 was was a few months ago (and that was when your program was ver. 1.3)

- And what I was talking about was not the win32 directory, but rather where the game exe was. I had an error in yours that said it couldn't find it and it was looking in the wrong place something like C:/Users/[mynamehere]/[somethingmore]/SEGA/[something]/PSO2.exe and I had it under a different folder than where it was looking for.

- I guess I was asking for more for a manual over-ride for some functions.

- But I figured out it was what I said before. It completely flipped out when I tried to update from so long ago. So I had to use the standard launcher/updater to get it to work then it worked flawlessly again.

- but in a shellnut: I was looking for like a...debug mode and/or options/config file for your program even though the log window is pretty much that...

definitely an options file would be nice with a true false thing so I know what has been done before and what Is about to happen...

probably talkin laymans' terms and talking in circles for something that has much better technical terms and is much more straightforward.


I think he's seeing patch files on his desktop since they are kinda named with bunches of numbers/letters right?

That's most definitely what I saw. I call anything that looks like files that are found in a registry (or what's in the win32 folder for PSO2) registry files ^^;;

[Scindo]

I love this and whoever participated in the making of it, i finally managed to patch my game with this because for some reason the launcher was so freaking stubborn D: