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Sajjad_Rahim, posted Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:22 pm (34080)

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Hexaae, posted Mon Feb 03, 2020 2:05 pm (53701)

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Wanted to fix some errors in the Italian localization of Bioshock2 Remastered PC Steam...
Bytes formula in front of the strings is still a mystery to me. See this example:


UTF-16 (2bytes per char).
E.g., left image:
$210 bytes of text, $4904 in front of the string itself (??? nonsense even in Little Endian and reversed byte order)... same strange numbers for the right image string ($5003).

BUT, there are also some parts with very small files/strings respecting formula: $/2 1 byte, e.g. if you look for UTF-16 "GEN-Restaurant.xxx", using $54/2 1 byte = $2B (correct in front of text):

Hexaae, posted Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:53 pm (53814)

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Here is a working tool made by banz99!
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApMUGr0cuN39gcYoFp0 ... w?e=SLigyw ("Bioshock 2 (Remastered) string manager final.zip\Bioshock string manager\bin\Debug\Bioshock string manager.exe")

Tested and perfectly working with Steam PC version of Bioshock 2 Remastered.
Don't use it for Bioshock (Remastered) that uses a similar and simpler file format you can easily modify with any hex-editor.

Will generate a subdir with the name of the archive EXT (e.g. "Localizedita.lbf EXT") containing all extracted files, and starting from the same dir location will repack a new "...\Localizedita.lbf EXT\REBUILT.dat" file inside. Rename and move REBUILT.dat to the original game Localizedita.lbf position in the end of course (replace original file).
Enjoy and good luck!