131kb is by no means large enough to be music, even if it is compressed. I'm not sure what SCD you're looking at, but there's no way that's a full-length track. It could be a short sound-effect clip however.

As I said before on reddit, if ever you need anything you should feel free to drop me a line. I'd be more than happy to help. In the meantime, keep up the good work!

Originally posted by Isolated Rainbow:

I see the difference now between what you have done and what Kaldaien does. Been a while since ive installed your mods. Once i got them working, i havent touched them since.

Can you link to your Disgaea PC thread? I have the game, just need to get around to playing it. Wanted to wait til the community fixed it, but havent checked really since release.

Im about 20 hours into 13-2, but if you are expecting to give an update, or have it in the back of your head you may, ill hold off on playing it for awhile. :)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/405900/discussions/4/371918937281416805/

Originally posted by ZephyrSonic:

So I'm assuming this project is cancelled cause it's been almost a year and a half since we have had any updates about this. I'm really excited to see how far this will go. Is their any updates regarding the status of the next monster mod pack?

I wouldn't really say cancelled, so much as.. it's in a coma.
I've been making a lot of progress with Disgaea PC lately and I've been having a lot of fun with that. I do want to go back to the XIII series and do things, I just dunno when that will be. I don't tend to abandon projects, just move onto other ones, I guess? At the least it's not hard to reach me anyway..

Originally posted by Isolated Rainbow:

Originally posted by ZephyrSonic:

So I'm assuming this project is cancelled cause it's been almost a year and a half since we have had any updates about this. I'm really excited to see how far this will go. Is their any updates regarding the status of the next monster mod pack?

Or even tools so we can mod these things ourselves and create community based similar to FFX by Kaldaien?

What has Kaldaien released for FFX? To my knowledge he doesn't do hard-mods like I do, he prefers "less-intrusive" things, like injectors.

I actually completely agree that this game is horribly imbalanced and kind of dumb. I mean, I love XIII-2 to death, it's such a cool game with a lot of neat ideas.. but ugh, it's a mess in terms of the raw numbers of everything. I personally still want to do a complete overhaul of this game, but it's really not something I can do alone I don't think. There's simply too much stuff to take into consideration. At one point I tried soliciting the help of some speedrunners who play this game rigorously, but sadly I didn't get the input from them I wanted. (They were surprisingly modest and even a bit shy about it.)

I feel like this game needs a lot of love put into it, so when the time comes that I tackle something like this.. I'll want to make it just right. Or in other words, be my usual perfectionist self and take forever at it, probably..

I'm not dead or anything, just been modding other games lately. Disgaea PC in particular has gotten a lot of my attention since it came out. There's still a tremendous amount I'd love to do for LR, as I never properly dug into it to begin with, but I can't say when exactly it is that I'll do any of it.

I'd love to see others take an initiative with this series, but it oddly seems like I'm the only one whose done any serious modding for them. (As far as I am aware, at least.)

Even though this was never reported (and hence, probably isn't being used lol) I've updated The Thirteenth Ark to support the latest version of LR. It's been broken for quite awhile now, but Scarlet recently decided to replay the game and asked that I update it.. so I did.

As a small bonus, the tool now loads Garb names if no Schemata name is present.

Originally posted by Kuugenthefox:

I did verify the files, applied console content patch and then monster pack, in that order, and it is back to CTDing. I did not try only applying the monster pack however. As a modder of various games myself, I am utterly confused what exactly would cause a CTD there to begin with.
The only thing that makes sense is that the MMP shifts memory regions just enough by adding additional data that the game freaks out when loading the poker game. Generally, the EU / US version should be identical (but I wouldn't put it past them for there to be difference) and this could be an EU exclusive issue then (Or more specifically even, german exclusive)

Funnily enough, disabling the mod, enabling it again after playing a while without it, you still own all the MMP custom monsters and so forth.

Also, the playstation button.bat looks for a file in mod/resident/gui and there is nothing in there, not even when I check the actual file folder structure on google drive via the download link. Obviously, the mod fails to install that way. Maybe just remove that .bat and the folder from the package to avoid confusion.

I'm definitely not dismissing your report, so don't worry. It's just we haven't been able to reproduce it ourselves yet, and no one else has reported it, so we're kinda.. stumped. We need something to go on ourselves in order to debug it, ya know?

As for it being a German exclusive.. that's within the realm of possibility. Are you playing with the German subtitles? Also yeah some of the actors included in MMP will remain in your party when you disable the mod, but they won't necessarily work correctly in all instances. It's funny how much information gets dumped into the savedata, yet just enough isn't to cause some things to break.. Ah well.

Originally posted by Scarlet Crusade:

He's referring to a rather amusing bug that we ran into involving goblins and victory fanfare that only triggered under specific conditions seemingly unrelated to anything while testing battles with monsters. So the possibility of crashing Sazh DLC would technically be inside the realm of possibility for a similar based insanity that is the internal workings of this game.

Yep! Weird things crop up like this in testing, weird unexplained things. The engine this series runs on is very sensitive I've learned, yet also surprisingly flexible. It's weird, you can do a lot - even do it wrong - and it will generally work just fine.. but if you do it wrong, it will probably have a terrible consequence down the line that is seemingly unrelated to everything else.

I used to rule out bug reports I couldn't produce myself, but after the thing Scarlet mentioned above happened to us.. I realized anything is possible. All reports are to be taken 100% seriously, no matter how implausible they sound.

Originally posted by Kuugenthefox:

Í just thought I would let you know that the monster pack actually causes the poker game in Sazh's DLC to CTD
I tested it with vanilla, fine
Console content, fine
Monster pack, CTD, in both languages
So something isn't working right there

Not able to reproduce it on my end, and this is the first I've heard of it.. Buuuut if there's anything I've learned with this series, anything is possible. Scarlet is planning to give it a test later herself and see if she can reproduce the crash, if we do I'll see about a fix.