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Fortune Summoners EN-SE — Japanese voice patch

Adds the Japanese dialogue + deluxe combat voices to the retail English special edition (the Steam sotes build) — English text, Japanese voice acting (both the story dialogue lines and the characters' battle grunts) — which the official English release never shipped. Drop-in DLL; the game exe is not modified.

Install — paste one line into PowerShell

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol='Tls12'; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Francesco149/OpenSummoners/master/tools/ennse_voice/web-install.ps1 | iex

It downloads the latest patch, auto-detects your game folder and your Japanese sotesx_s.dll (file-picker fallback if it can't), installs, and prints what it did. Re-run it any time to uninstall. You supply sotesx_s.dll from your own Japanese copy — it is never redistributed.

Prefer a manual install? Grab ennse-voice-patch.zip, unzip it, and run Install.bat.

How it works (short version)

The English engine (sotes_en.exe) still contains the entire voice subsystem — the code that plays a voice clip is byte-for-byte identical to the Japanese engine. The English localizer removed exactly one line: the call that loads sotesx_s.dll and remembers its handle. With that handle left null the engine can't play any voice, so dialogue is silent and the characters' battle grunts drop to the plain (non-"deluxe") set.

Just re-loading the bank isn't enough, though. The special edition introduced a bug in the boot code that registers every sound effect: when the voice bank is present, it registers the deluxe version of each sound — but enemies have no deluxe variant, so it registers nothing for them and their hit / scream / death SFX go silent. (This is a real engine bug — even the native Japanese special-edition exe loses monster sounds if the bank is loaded early. It's why simply dropping the voice DLL in doesn't just work.)

So this patch — a standalone drop-in version.dll, loaded before the exe's entry point because the game imports version.dll normally, forwarding the real version-info calls to a renamed copy of your own system DLL (realver.dll) — makes two tiny in-memory changes and nothing else:

  1. Loads sotesx_s.dll early, right before that boot registrar runs, so the characters get their deluxe voices back and the engine builds its own voice manager for the dialogue.
  2. Flips one byte in the registrar so enemies with no deluxe voice keep their normal sound instead of being dropped — restoring the monster SFX.

The exe on disk is never touched; both changes live only in the running process's memory.

The same DLL also fixes the Japanese special edition (sotes.exe): it already loads the voice bank itself, so there the DLL applies only the one-byte registrar fix — restoring the monster SFX that the same engine bug silences even on the native JP build. The edition is auto-detected by exe name (sotes_en.exe → seed + fix; sotes.exe → fix only).

What you need

  • The English special edition on Steam (…\steamapps\common\sotes\, has sotes_en.exe) — buy it here and support Lizsoft.
  • sotesx_s.dll — the Japanese voice bank (~253 MB). It ships only with the voiced Japanese release (below); copy it from your own JP install/CD. (It is not redistributed here — you must own it.)

Where the voice bank comes from

No Steam edition ships the dialogue voice bank — not even the Japanese language of the Special Edition. The only sources are the out-of-print voiced Japanese releases by Lizsoft; metadata to hunt one down second-hand:

  • フォーチュンサモナーズ ～アルチェの精霊石～ Deluxe — the 2009-06-18 boxed retail release (publisher ジャングル / Jungle, distr. Access Media International; Amazon JP ASIN B0026EQRVE). Added professional voice acting for the main story scenes: 田村ゆかり (Arche), 植田佳奈 (Sana), 藤村歩 (Stella).
  • The Lizsoft JP retail-CD special edition (disc dated 2008–2009; installs to C:\Program Files (x86)\lizsoft\FortuneSummoners) — the build matrix in docs/findings/game-editions-and-voice.md. Vector's download listing now reads 取扱い終了 (discontinued), and lizsoft.jp only points at Steam.

Identify the right file: sotesx_s.dll, 253,206,528 bytes, 1,448 WAVE resources (PCM 22050 Hz 16-bit mono), SHA-256 ad15512c6810caeb877de5c6237439e53df3b72c04898d5115d7a6e73762b0a6. (Browse/play it with the repo's resource explorer.)

Exact patch target (for future game updates)

The patch seeds engine globals by address, so it is built against ONE exe build. Verified against:

field value
game Fortune Summoners Special Edition (Steam app 1381770)
Steam buildid 23890965
file sotes_en.exe, 72,529,416 bytes
SHA-256 668f7e1a12e70b36acf60859c3ee34385daa826839cdde3d93f2929a5c51232e
ImageBase 0x400000 (unpacked; runtime-relocated, ASLR-safe)

Patched addresses (ennse_voice.c): the seed inline-hooks the bank-load wrapper 0x5d8b10 to set the voice-bank global 0x92af80 early (before the boot registrar), and flips one byte at 0x59ccce — the registrar's deluxe-skip branch — so enemy sounds still register. If Steam ships a new build (different buildid/hash), re-derive these per docs/findings/ense-voice-combat-init.md before trusting the patch.

Manual install (offline — no one-liner)

From ennse-voice-patch.zip, run Install.bat — it auto-detects the game folder and your JP sotesx_s.dll (file-picker fallback) and copies everything in.

Or place these files in …\steamapps\common\sotes\ by hand:

  1. version.dll — this patch (from the zip, or build/version.dll).
  2. realver.dll — a copy of C:\Windows\SysWOW64\version.dll.
  3. sotesx_s.dll — the JP voice bank (from your Japanese special edition).

Then launch normally (Steam). The first voiced line (Arche's dad, right at the start) should be spoken in Japanese.

Uninstall

Re-run the one-liner and choose uninstall — or run Uninstall.bat from the zip, or delete version.dll, realver.dll, sotesx_s.dll (and oss_voice.log) by hand. That's a full revert to vanilla. The game is otherwise untouched.

Troubleshooting

  • oss_voice.log (written next to the DLL) logs each step — a healthy run shows [reg] deluxe-skip patched… then [seed] voice bank -> <non-zero address>.
  • No voice but no crash → make sure sotesx_s.dll is present in the game folder.
  • Crash on launch about a missing version.dll function → realver.dll is missing.

Note for maintainers

ennse_voice.c hard-codes addresses for the current sotes_en.exe build (unpacked ImageBase 0x400000; resolved at runtime against the module base, so ASLR/rebase is fine). The hooks are signature-gated, so a mismatched build fails safe (no patch) rather than corrupting the game. If Steam updates it, re-verify the addresses in docs/findings/ense-voice-combat-init.md.

Build: nix develop --command make -C tools/ennse_voice → build/version.dll (the patch).