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lovecoconuts in swooping_is_bad

Talk Table Files (.tlk)

Nov 18, 2009 12:36

Revanchists asked me how to find the ending text-s in the .tlk files, but the thread had become very narrow, so I decided to just start a new post.

(Is it possible to tell LJ not to narrow the reply posts?)

Besides, the .tlk files probably contains all/most/many of the conversation and codex text in the game so yeah - major resource.

( Instructions. )

resources, spoilers

Comments 24

rhia474 November 18 2009, 05:06:03 UTC

Bless you; I shall try this tomorrow.

digitalworks November 18 2009, 05:27:15 UTC

Hmm, very interesting ending text. Thanks for the post!

I think Entry No. 250885 is the dialog that should have been shown instead of the Anora one when you are married. Probably a bug.

Entry No. 143216 is somewhat interesting, PC ruling instead of Alistair? A Anora!PC?

Entry No. 236429, puppet king Alistair? Bleh, but I guess it's better than having the exile or execution ending.

lovecoconuts November 18 2009, 05:35:34 UTC

Hehe, I kinda like the PC!Chancellor endings. Considering that my Elf PC's cunning is way way way higher than Alistair's - it makes sense.

Besides, that way optimistic!Alistair can be king (and the kingdom not fall into ruin - lol).

I don't know how to get the Chancellor ending though. Maybe it has to be a male PC or just BFF with Alistair female PC.

digitalworks November 18 2009, 05:53:40 UTC

Hmm, it could be interesting. Actually unmarried King!Alistair having an affair with his chancellor is kinda sexy. (Fanfic material?)

I guess I just don't like it that Alistair is so dependent, because he does have such potential if he works out his issues.

I'm not sure if all the endings are actually attainable. From what I've seen of previous Bioware endings (HOTU and KOTOR comes to mind) some don't quite make it into the game, but they keep the text anyway.

Hmm, maybe if Eamon doesn't make it, it's possible. I think Eamon becomes his chancellor normally.

digitalworks November 18 2009, 06:38:33 UTC

Afterthought: of course having an affair is what only Hardened!Allistair would do, I think play testing all those endings messed with my head a little. :P

I would be forever happy if the toolset could actually load Alistair's dlg file without running out of memory. I haven't played the game enough to figure out all the context of his dialogues. I'm hoping it would also let me play the audio files along with the dialogue, like NWN did.

Guess I'll pray for a separate tool...

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defgoddess November 18 2009, 07:01:00 UTC

I think that's the layout coding :-\ I'm personally a fan of the comments/replies gradually going to the right, not the boxes getting tinier underneath.

lovecoconuts November 18 2009, 08:47:20 UTC

I'm kinda tempted to see just how tiny the reply boxes will go.

digitalworks November 18 2009, 08:53:37 UTC

Haha, it was just getting ridiculously unreadable.

I'm just hopelessly impatient. I love reading dialogue.

digitalworks November 21 2009, 06:17:23 UTC

Been swamped by work, but now I'm back. :D

Okay, I found the TLKParser a bit clumsy for searching and reading text sequentially, so I took EvilMulder's code, modded it a bit, and dumped the text into txt files for your viewing pleasure. The unfortunate thing is that it's still hard to piece the dialog together, but it is more or less the dialog is in coherent order by the entry numbers.

Here it is all zipped up:

http://www.mediafire.com/?gzduqnjymuz

What an odd use for my education... I'd be a happy camper if I could figure out the dlg format, but so far no dice.

revanchists November 18 2009, 11:58:09 UTC

yessssss oh my gosh thank you! i'm trying this out at once ♥

revanchists November 18 2009, 12:17:32 UTC

also regarding the tiny reply boxes: i suppose it would be better if the customized comment pages were turned off? then everyone can just see the post with livejournal's regular layout instead of the rather narrow one we have now.

manic_intent November 18 2009, 12:51:45 UTC

I got the Chancellor ending (male character). It's when you choose to continue to serve the crown. :O Frankly it took me a while, looking through all the choices (Circle of Mages independent? I don't... think so... :( besides I think Irving and Gregoir need each other ^^;; Money and lands? Naah. Go after Morrigan? Not interested, etc.)