Android Modding on 2.7
RogueCynical
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Has anyone managed to get quest mods or anything that edits Dialog.tlk working on the new android version? I've tried installing through Termux and also copying over from PC and it's Invalid text every time.
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BG1 - by using centralfix on the lang zip
BG2 - copying the lang folder and a zip of it into the obb folder.
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I ran my lang.zip with no compression through centralfix.exe by using winlator and simply copying and pasting it onto the centralfix.exe itself on my phone (nothing popped up but it did stutter snd slow down for a bit so I assume it did its thing?)
How did you do these things correctly? When I use centralfix on my lang folder nothing pops up but my phone will slow down and act like it's loading something (I'm using winlator) so I'm wondering if it's even doing its thing. Also do we have to copy it into our obb folder? Whenever I would mess with anything in obb the game locks up and and acts like the game isn't installed even when I copy over everything folder by folder
I think android 16 messed up this patch because no matter what I do the lang folder won't be read by the game by simply importing it
I had the same problem no matter what I did I got text invalid messages. What fixed it for me was duplicating lang.zip in the files folder and changing its name so the folder contained both lang.zip and a duplicated version. The only downside is that I noticed is that modded soundsets do not play all the sounds properly like the files are missing.
Also, tried duplicating the lang.zip file like @koleslaw mentioned but still seeing the Invalid texts like "Invalid 34347" (bard song).
My setup is android16 bgee1 v2.7.3.2 and termux+shizuku etc for modding.
Mods:
Pocketplayui
Unfinished bussines
RR
SCS
Mods seems to be installed correctly bit cant get the dialog.tlk working
I had the same problem with invalid strings and after many tries and failures i managed to get it work. here is what i did:
after unpacking and modifying the game on a pc as per usual steps for modding, i put all usually usual folders (except lang!) to my mod folder on android (for me these were music, override, scripts, movies, sounds). opened the game found the data import button and imported that folder.
next i zipped the lang folder on my PC, but i deleted all languages/folders from it except en_us one, because that was the one i modified. i zipped it in zip format and STORE type compression.
a side note, my en_us folder had both dialog.tlk and dialogf.tlk (as per installation instructions from the main thread, dialogf is just a copy of dialog file, named differently)
next i downloaded centralfix.exe and dropped the zipped version of file on it. a quick command prompt window should appear confirming something happened and thats it.
now i copied the centralfixed zip file into the obb root folder on my phone. then i clicked it again in the obb folder and copied it again , so i now have both lang.zip file and lang - Copy.zip file in obb folder. then i copied the original zip file from PC for the third time into a folder on my phone that was outside the android folder (so not data or obb folder, but somewhere where it is accessible with rar on the phone).
next i looked for the third copied version of lang.zip file ( the one i copied outside the obb folder) with rar and unpacked it.
on my pc i looked for the unpacked lang folder and moved it into the obb folder. third zip copy can now be deleted
so, now i have lang.zip, lang-Copy.zip and lang folder along with the two main obb files in my obb folder. and that made the game finally recognize the dialog.tlk and now all the mods display the text correctly.
to reiterate in the data folder there is no lang folder or file anywhere, just override, music etc. (refereing to the files we imported through the game itself)
a side note, music didnt work for me for a npc mod in my game so i made a "music" folder in obb folder and dropped into it just the files and folders that i knew were the music for the mod, that made it work too. so if you notice something not working it's worth trying and put the files you know are needed into obb folder into correct folder structure. this seems to work better if just the needed files are present in those folders, instead of just copying the entire lang, music,whatever folder directly.
Anyway, i dont know which is the magic point that made it all work but hopefully it works for you guys too! this was on android 16 samsung s25 phone. good luck!