The Wonderful 101: Remastered

The Wonderful 101: Remastered

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How to play with DS4/Switch Pro Controller button prompts
By banz99
Disappointed that the game can only show Xbox button prompts? This is the guide you were looking for.
   
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♥♥♥♥ off Platinum
This is a rant that shouldn't be here. They updated the textures for no reason, AGAIN. If someone knows of an ai algorithm that can change parts of an image automatically, let me know in the comments, but i surely as hell won't be updating this thing manually for the third ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time, at least not any time soon. Sorry if you're a newcomer and just see this, but enough is enough even for me. The link below seems to still be working as of 2021/08/28 patch, however some things changed between patches and it's probable that the game might just crash or not load things properly if you use them. Do it at your own risk, and again, I'm sorry.
Cool, what do I need?
You have to map the switch pro controller or the dualshock 4 through Steam Input so that the buttons are a 1:1 match for the xbox one (that means having B->A and A->B on the Switch controller, and Triangle->Y, Square->X for the Dualshock 4).
Then go to this URL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MkeM254_qiiE31HjVvkg5KLZhF2jIbuh and pick either the PS4 or Switch version (right click on the folder, then click on download). Once the download is done, get inside the game folder (right click on Wonderful 101 inside your steam library, properties, local files, browse local files) and extract the downloaded files so that both the "ui" folder and coreui are alongside "sound", "movie_ui", "exe", and the "cursor" folder. This should be the final result:



And that's it, you can start the game from Steam like you've always done up until now, nothing else required.
Limitations
While this is the best possible result i could achieve at the time of writing this guide, sadly not everything could be adjusted in the best possible way (the tutorial prompts will still show an xbox 360 controller, you can see it in the screenshot below. I know it could be better, still working on it).
In case you're wondering why such a simple mod took so long, let me just tell you that when creating the game the developers decided that it would be a great idea to have font files separated between each language that the game supports, so yeah, I had to do a texture replacement 7 times (English(Uk) and English(Us) are different, of course...) twice (both switch and ps4).
It should be noted that the Japanese ps4 button prompts are smaller than the others and I could not find a valid replacement without resorting to scaling the others (which, trust me, looks ugly), so it's on hold for now.
By far the biggest limitations is that having the switch pro controller mapped 1:1 means that B is confirm and A is cancel inside the menus, but while in game the behaviour is exactly the same as you would have on a real nintendo switch (smash A to save the world). This is being worked on and may change in the future.
Other than these little things, every other language for both the DualShock 4 and Switch Pro controller should have everything you'd need.
Don't expect to have these texture in any higher resolution than the font in the base game (which I know is not of the highest quality ), as i simply swapped the remaining pieces inside the game file for the Switch and PS4 release.
Screenshots
Here are some 4k screenshots i took to show the results:

9 Comments
Crocer1 6 Oct, 2023 @ 9:11pm 
sorry for asking i just started the game and got annoyed of the xbox layout and about to try your thing

after reading the comments i was wondering did you finish the switch version? sorry for asking
banz99  [author] 16 Jun, 2021 @ 1:21am 
With the new dlc released today, I've updated the files (for both controllers) so there is no missing text. Also, the ds4 version is now 100% complete again (apart from the limitations above and the Japanese language... sorry). Completing the switch version will take a bit more time, but will eventually be done, sorry for the wait. Please Platinum, don't change textures again for no reason, thanks.
banz99  [author] 5 Dec, 2020 @ 2:57am 
Little update,since many new people may have bought the game during the sale and kind of expect this mod to run as it was supposed to, I've decided to release a partial update. In this state most of the UI should be showing the correct button prompts (with the notable exception of the subscreen view). it's a bandaid solution that will remain in place until I'm able to redo all the other textures.
Kain 2 Dec, 2020 @ 3:43am 
Thanks for the info :mhwgood:
banz99  [author] 2 Dec, 2020 @ 2:53am 
Took a look and the situation is pretty unfortunate. Some of the textures have been changed in the new update, and that will force me to redo part of what was a very tedious and boring process to begin with. I can't give an ETA on when this will be fixed, but it's not technically impossible.
Kain 1 Dec, 2020 @ 12:02am 
Yep, does not work with demo (not a big deal unless its not working with full version)
banz99  [author] 30 Nov, 2020 @ 11:31pm 
Will have to take a look then, it's not that uncommon for a mod to break once a patch comes out (months later).
Maeth 30 Nov, 2020 @ 10:26pm 
I can't access the Wonderful Code menu unless I delete your files (PS4 version). You should fix them or at least add this info to the guide.
banz99  [author] 16 Jul, 2020 @ 11:07am 
If anyone finds any error (missing buttons, or still showing as Xbox) report here by telling me where it occurred and in which language the game was currently being played.