I couldn’t reproduce this issue. When I merge the .srt (re-named them to the default Japanese video name first), with the original video and put them back into a .tpatch file, the game loads them normally.
Seems like you have an issue with the character encoding, since the original filenames contain Japanese characters. Maybe your system, or program used to merge the .srt has issues with these characters.
From what I see, your .srt files already don’t match the original file names and contain weird symbols instead (e.g. “3-4-3-1-1_ïxîe1ë±û+(æüéó)_1_087_break_0_0.srt”), so I’m guessing it’s the same for the video files you’re merging them with?
Does the name stay the same as the original when you extract and compress the videos into .zip again?
Otherwise, you could try changing the name encoding in WinRAR before extracting the files:
Also, I would suggest using Bandizip to compress them back into .zip/tpatch afterwards, since you don’t want them to actually get “compressed” the way WinRAR does it, so that the game can still read the video files.
Alternatively you could try manually changing the video name to the original and give that a try.
Did you made the srt files yourself or is it generated via voice recognition? I looked into them and some seems to be machine translated. But it is something!
This Python programme detects the voice in a video using OpenAI’s Whisper and automatically burn in subtitles using ffmpeg. It might be something worth looking at for a project of such a scale.
Thanks for the responses @Falafel@ZeroScripts I’ll need to take a look when I get some time to see why the encoding is messed up. It’s either the actual webm’s being created are bad or the way I’m zipping the files it wrong. The annoying part is that on the file explorer the filenames all look normal for the srt and video files.
You can also try to run your file compressor of choice with NTLEA. It’s a portable tool that basically let you run an executable with Japanese locale. In ‘AppPath’ you select the main executable you want to run and click on ‘Save & Run’:
I once had a similar issue with 7zip while extracting a compressed japanese game, most of the filenames were corrupted and the game of course wouldn’t start.
That’s probably because the srt files I uploaded has some of these issues. I spot checked a few to remove them but I likely missed things. Whisper has some weird hallucinations that make it show up as “Thank you for watching” and “Please subscribe” which was funny
video_day3_4_5_b.tpatch - I think this one was the one with the muffled sound it has jp subs but the audio wasn’t good for translating. I didn’t create an srt for this one
video_hdjb_nov.tpatch - i don’t see in the files I have, maybe an update I don’t have
Any possibility of the translation being uploaded through another service? I seem to be unable to download gofile.io links, not to mention they expired already.
