TALES OF DESTINY REFORGED v1.01

Released by mteam, Aug 10th 2025

Improves the presentation of the NTSC-U release of Tales of Destiny by correcting all known translation flubs and technical bugs, as well as reverting all instances of censorship and most other arbitrary localization changes.

In addition, modern Tales naming conventions have been implemented where applicable.

Although a sizable chunk of the script has been checked against the original Japanese, this patch is NOT a full-blown retranslation. The dialogue largely stays true to the original localization by Michiyo Pattillo, while ironing out obvious issues and reverting some decisions that were a product of the era.

One inspiration behind this was a defunct project in the same vein by Cless of Phantasian Productions fame.

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DISCLAIMER

No ownership is claimed by mziab or FlamePurge over Tales of Destiny or the franchise from which it originates. Commercial use of this patch, including but not limited to reproduction, sale, etc. is strictly prohibited.

This unofficial, fan-made patch is provided "as-is" on a voluntary (i.e. non-profit) basis. mziab and FlamePurge are not liable for damage incurred to the end-user, their OS, or their hardware while using this patch.

CREDITS

• mziab: Hacking and tools, localization research, testing, font
• FlamePurge: Testing, suggestions, graphic edits
• SeiichiroMine: Quiz text and bath scene translation
• Kevan33: Quiz text consistency check
• Phantasian Productions: "New Arte!" pixel art and font from Tales of Phantasia PS1
• DeJap: Original font from Bahamut Lagoon (used in the Phantasian Productions patch)

CHANGES

• A wide swath of translation and context errors have been corrected.

• New 8x8 font allowing for fully expanded item, special skill, spell, and enemy names.

• Meticulously readjusted menus to efficiently utilize space and improve their layouts.

• Fixed a bug where using Spectacles or the Inspect skill resulted in the incorrect enemy weakness displaying.

• Modern terms used for item, skill, spell, and enemy names where applicable. (Includes changing the "New Skill!" graphic to "New Arte!")

• Letters in the name entry screen are now properly aligned.

• Reverted censorship and localization changes in the graphics (sprites, overworld graphics, and items).

• Stahn starts equipped with a Technical Ring.

• Philia's name variable is used for her Philia Bomb skill, as well as other menu descriptions which reference her name.

• Leon's enemy name now consistently uses his name variable in all contexts.

• Corrected Lilith's default name.

• Lilith's name variable is used for her arte Lillith Slash.

• Lilith's proper avatar in the status screen is now shown at all times, not just at high Luck. (Please note that Lilith remains dummied out! The above changes were made for people who wish to cheat her into their party.)

• Cress/Arche use their modern Tales of Phantasia field map sprites.

• Restored the original opening FMV.

• Battle debug menu labels tweaked for clarity.

• Uncensored the Sylph, Undine, Nurse and False Ishtar battle sprites.

• Restored missing sprites in the debug room, including Deen.

• Restored the end-game event which gave you a concert ticket.

• Restored and retranslated an early-game bath scene (translation courtesy of SeiichiroMine)

• Restored the original Armeida quiz questions (translation by SeiichiroMine, consistency check by Kevan33)

• Reverted Beef Tartar (name, description and icon) to the original Blowfish Sashimi.

• Bruiser's enemy name now uses his name variable instead of the hardcoded "Khang".

• Replaced all dialogue instances of the "Khang" speaker name with his name tag.

• Implemented the proper Saxon genitive for name tags.

• Changed "Hit" to "Accuracy" in the status screen.

• Fixed the Oberonamin C item name.

• Moved colon down in dialogue font.

• Made a separate alternative names patch which reverts the localized character names to their Japanese counterparts (Woodrow, Johnny, Kongman, Greybum, Miktran, Ritora, Bacchus)

PATCHING INSTRUCTIONS

This patch must be applied to the US release of Tales of Destiny (SLUS_006.26) in BIN+CUE format.

It is NOT meant for the PlayStation 2 game.

Some images of the game contain a dummy audio track; this isn't used, but it complicates patching, as the dump might contain one or two .bin files. To alleviate this, patches are provided for both:

• tod_reforged_v101.xdelta (use if your image has ONE .bin file) for a .bin file matching the following specifications: size: 600580848 bytes md5: 1762cd70d7a52f0358975fff362bb300

• tod_reforged_v101-track01.xdelta (use if your image has TWO .bin files) NOTE: apply this ONLY to track01 for a .bin file matching the following specifications: size: 557790912 bytes md5: 21ca0eb29b32856d334a7cedbf5cc314

The patch can be applied using DeltaPatcher or the web-based patcher available at https://mziab.github.io/tod-reforged/patcher/

SAVE COMPATIBILITY

• Loading savestates from an older version or the vanilla game might lead to crashes or updates not being reflected due to old code and data in ram. Please make a memory card save and reload it when switching versions.

• When loading memory card saves from an older version, character names will not be updated. This might lead to Lilith being called Lilis in dialogue when using saves from the original US release, among other things. This can be remedied by hex-editing your memory card file.

• The same caveats apply when switching to and from the alternative names patch.

CHEATS

Here are some useful cheat codes discovered during the development of the patch:

disable dialogue window beep:
80120c08 0000
80120c0a 0000

unlock debug mode:
80171da0 01