GreatMightySymp Random nobody Level: 4 Posts: 2/2 EXP: 168 For next: 111 Since: 08-04-12 Since last post: 7.5 years Last activity: 7.2 years

Posted on 10-25-14 08:28:11 PM, in Ar nosurge, anyone good at save hacking and could look into this? Link

In the North American/European versions of the game, due to a linking between this game and Ciel nosurge which took place on Gusts's servers the bonus boss in Ar nosurge is unfightable. Which in turn causes some bonuses from beating it (changing costumes and the ability to rotate the camera in a different direction than normal IIRC) to become non-unlockable. There was also some dialogue if you imported your Ciel nosurge save. Basically for the bonus boss, it utilized a gimmick where you crafted an item that allowed you to "link" with other players fighting the same boss. So the boss which had an ungodly amount of HP could be brought down if enough people beat it and uploaded their results. As for the dialogue changes, that had to do with importing the data from your Ciel save which was uploaded to developer Gust's servers. Not sure how advanced the PS3 scene is in terms of save hacking or looking at the files, but I was curious if Tecmo Koei/Gust actually removed the content completely or it became unusable in the western version due to the flags not being able to be set due to the server component removal. Since the Western localization was a little less than a year from the Japanese release, I'm thinking maybe they just dummied out the menus to connect to the server and the routines to unlock the stuff still exist. If nothing else, it'd be interesting to see if the save can be modified to unlock the costume/camera bonuses. But if the other content still exists and is translated that'd be neat.