Part 160: Vesperia Hacking - PS3 Fan-Translation Costumes

I apologize in advance for not having real screenshots for these. I no longer have access to a hacked PS3. If you happen to and want to send me some screenshots, feel free to do so, I'll get them in here somehow.

Anyway, sometime late during our fan-translation project, not too long before we actually released the patch, I stumbled across the file that told the game which title slot maps to which title, and which costume that title uses. We thought it would be a shame not to do something with that, and it'd make for a neat hidden surprise, so we took a couple of the costumes that were in the game files but not actually attached to any obtainable title and attached them to a few titles that didn't have costumes before.

Yuri got the bulk of them because, for some reason, they left three costumes that were probably intended for Sassoon's title/attachment combining thing on the game disc but never used them.

One of them combines the Improvisionist costume with the ponytail hairstyle and the Devil Outfit attachment. We attached this to the King of Combos title.

The second combines the True Knight top half with the Dark Enforcer bottom half. We put this on the Legendary Swordsman title.

And the third one, the most bizarre of the three, combines the Certified Soldier costume with the Tank Top Lover headgear and also puts the Karol and Rita dolls that usually go on Repede on Yuri's shoulders. I'm kinda disappointed they didn't use this, to be honest! We put it on the Treasure Hunter title. Unfortunately, as we found out after we had already released the patch, the costume appears to be buggy and can freeze the game when loading a save where it's equipped. I don't know why. One can work around the issue by loading a different save first, and then loading the affected save from the in-game menu.

In addition to all of this, Yuri also has a cosume that is him just in a towel, with a naked top half. It's used during some hot spring scenes but you never really get a good look at it. We couldn't resist putting that on a title, so it went on Berserker.



You can also see Flynn in a towel in that screenshot above, which is also a costume. That one went on Emperor of the Night.

Estelle has that elusive dress she wears in the beginning of the game. This is actually already attached to a title (Mysterious Maiden), but there's no way to obtain that title without hacking your save file. We attached it to Noble Princess.



Similarly, Rita has the robe she wears the first time you meet her in her house. This is also attached to an unobtainable title (Researcher for Life). We put in on Master Mage. Additionally, there's a slight variation of it with the hood up, which is not attached to any title at all. That one went on Genius Mage.




There's a few more costume variations that are referenced in cutscenes (Mind-controlled Estelle, Judith with broken Dragon Rider helmet, plus a whole bunch of variants that seem to be identical to the regular costumes but with fixed equipment models) which I either couldn't get to work or didn't actually look any different from existing costumes, so those were not included.