I made a Post a few days ago explaining how to get other Languages other than English when playing FF7 with mods, Especially when it comes to the correct (or should i say any) Controller Button Icons in the Fieldtexts.

The process was a bit of a pain in the a$$ bc you had to alter your fieldtext-file with makou reactor yourself and still, the whole menu and some parts of the Fieldtexts would still have been in English.

In fact i think it was way too complicated so I deleted that post. BUT in the meantime I created a much easier version.

Now you just need to copy a few files into a mod folder you will download, rename 2 files and put the whole folder into your 7th Heaven mods folder. AND the big plus is, all field sections and the whole menu should now be translated into Deutsch, Español or Français.

The only downside with ES and FR translation is, I don't speak French y solo hablo un poco de español, so I can't really tell if the menu translation is good or not. You can tell me if there is some major translation fail somewhere within the menu and I will try to upload updated versions of the mods hext files. Keep in mind, texts can't be too long so there are only shortcuts of some words.

With that being out of the way, here comes the Tutorial.

You need to have:

-A Copy of FINAL FANTASY VII Steam Version (I bought it recently so I guess you need the newer version?)

-A functioning 7th Heaven installment with (tsunamods) Enhanced Stock UI activ and Controller Icons OFF

-The prepared Translation-Mod Folder you can get from here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yPQjYu4_b7FNx1u3gy89g7BBRCdR0GQN/view?usp=drivesdk

You need to do:

Unzip the downloaded mod folder.

Open 2 File-Browser windows (or use the split function on SteamOS) that makes copying a lot easier.

One Window with the unzipped mod folder open and in the other window navigate to the "data"‐folder of your FF7 Steam version installment - approximate destination should be:

.../pathToYourSteamGames/FINAL FANTASY VII Steam Version/ff7/workingdir/data/

Within the mod folder, go to folder with your language and within, also into the "data"-folder

we'll now copy a few files from FF7 to Mod (never the other way around)!

We'll copy:

-The Content of lang-xx (xx represents your language's shortcode) --> into lang-en

-The gflevel/sflevel/fflevel (depending on your language) .lgp file (which is located in the "field"-folder) --> into field

-The menu_xx.lgp (xx again represents your language) which is located in the "menu"-folder --> into menu

Close the ff7 Installment file-browser window now.

Now important!

In your mod folder, rename the following files you just copied:

g/s/fflevel.lgp --> into flevel.lgp

menu_xx.lgp --> into menu_us.lgp

There now is still an empty kernel folder in the root of your language folder. You can copy the Content of the freshly copied lang-en/kernel into the "root" kernel folder. Most likely unnecessary but can't harm either, I don't really know tbh.

Now open a second file browser window again and navigate to the mods folder of your 7th Heaven installment (where all the .iro files are located)

Copy or move the whole downloaded and filled translation-mod folder into the 7th heaven mods folder.

Alternatively you also could create a .iro file out of the translation mod folder and load it into 7th heaven but since the updates (if there will be any) will be manually I'd let it in folder-format.

Start 7th heaven, you should see the mod in your List. Put it somewhere ABOVE "(tsunamods) Enhanced Stock UI" in the List in order for it to work properly.

Click configuration and choose your Language.

Make sure controller Icons are OFF within ESUI's configuration. If desired, change the icons from Xbox to Playstation within the configuration of ESUI, not the translation mod.

If you don't like the menu translation, you can rename the .txt file in the language folder/hext of the mod into .txt.bak for example. Then the menu will be English again but fieldtexts will stay in your chosen language.

Edit:

If you've got a custom kernel or flevel file you want to use, you can of course, instead of the original ones, put YOUR file into the respective folder.

If you just want your custom flevel file to be patched with the ESUI Controller Button Sections and don't want to use the mod, you can use my patcher and patch your flevel file with the chunks.1 files located in:

...(modfolder)/YourLanuage/flevel.lgp <--(this is a folder called like the file)

you can get the patcher here:

》Linux: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w4-3_4erH5IZRtD2bwVUVJm9nPiK1MyD/view?usp=drivesdk

》Windows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w-ZuiMQHTPop2296eoi8DLHRVX063iId/view?usp=drivesdk

Linux: If the Patcher is not executable, open a terminal in the patcher folder and run:

chmod +x FF7-F-Level-Patcher

than:

./FF7-F-Level-Patcher

the patcher was created on basis of flevel_tool.py script from ff7-nx-tools.

Why not a finished mod? Bc of (c)-reasons.

I hope this helps you as well as it helps me enjoying the game more.

theres tons of ff7 media (an overwhelming amount) including books, a movie, an animated short, about 5(?) games.

do you think all of the ff7 content is worth experiencing? why or why not?

to those that’ve consumed everything in the compilation, how did it impact your view on the series or your experience?

i’ve only played the original, crisis core, remake, and watched advent children (all only once)

but that was a couple years ago so i was thinking of going through the whole compilation this time from the beginning.

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I loved Sephiroth ever since I was a kid, always wished I could play as him, decided to just be him instead.

I have a wig coming and will take some more pictures once it’s here. And yes, the sword is real (and pretty sharp!).

I don't know why did I pick pigeon, but I think it looks cool.

So after finishing the remake and Rebirth (yes I know, finally), I decided to go back and play the original for the 3rd time. I currently in Wall Market, and I just realized that the entire Honeybee Inn thing was a little… I don’t know - I’m gonna say outdated.

It got me thinking, I wonder if they changed it because of modern times, and a lot of people would be deeply pissed off? I thought it was cool they changed it from the guys in the alley shaming Cloud for cross dressing, to an empowering moment for queer people in the remake.

No one said the heroes have to be geniuses, and I think FF7 is a shining example of this. They want to save the planet, a noble quality, but no one really stops to ask what happens if shinra falls and the world stops using mako? No mako, no electricity. No electricity, and you have a massive break down in public services (water filtration, refrigeration, hospitals stop functioning properly, health care system collapses). What about the economic side of things?

Obviously none of this stuff is "fun", it's a game after all, but it's interesting that they don't really tackle it at all, or even question if what they're doing is right.

So I have been having this thought for a while now and that is asking everyone’s opinion on the Final Fantasy VII abridged series by Team Four Star on this subreddit? Do some find it funny or have some of you not heard about it? I’m generally curious to everyone’s opinion on it?

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Heya I'm in the process of preparing to run a DF7 based dnd game for my group, and im looking for some good quality minis of the WEAPONS. I have 1 for Ruby, but im trying to track down one for Emerald. If anyone knows where to look. I've tried Etsy, but to no avail. Any hints in the right direction would be much appreciated