If you wish to view the improvement in the cutscene quality without downloading the entire 90 GB of files, download the Main Installer and the first two FMV files. This will allow you to install the intro scene as well as most of the Hanging Edge scenes including the purge train. Then start a new game and watch the intro and the purge train. This should be representative of the other FMVs. You can then get the remaining files and re-run the installer if the graphical improvement is worthwhile. (Intro is in the first FMV, the purge train in the 2nd)
Should you want to verify that you are actually seeing the new FMV files, you can temporarily rename your original intro movie file. If the game actually tries to access this file and it does not exist, then it will just skip the intro. If the intro plays, then it is showing the upgraded FMV. The intro file can be found in your Final Fantasy XIII directory at the following location. Restore the original filename once you have completed your check.
FINAL FANTASY XIII\white_data\movie\z000_us.win32.wmp
How long can it take for the bat to find the directory? I have two hard drives and I felt like I am stuck on that first part. I was seeing if there were comments mentioning this, but least I couldn't find one.
Edit: Finally went through - and got everything working. Thanks for the work.
Glad you got it working. For anyone else, it can take a while. It depends on how many hard drives you have, the size and speed and where the game is located. Laptop hard drives (non ssd) can be very slow.
I'm stuck on this part as well, annoying we cannot just link it to the main folder. might be fine for single hard drive machines, but I've got 5 SSD's they aren't slow but big drives, left it for 2 hours and gets to the point I don't know if its working or not, or failing
Worked it out. open the bat file and you can create a custom Set file location to the correct place and get it to install that way, make it so much quicker after spending 5 hours waiting on it
Some of my more updated mods allow you to navigate to your game directory rather than have the mod try to find it itself. I probably should go back and update this one. The end result of that whole process is the creation of the file FFXIII_Dir.txt in your mod directory that contains a single line pointing to your game directory.
Since no reply was given and no update was done to allow the user to manually enter the directory first when they have massive HDD space, you can skip the search and immediately go to a manual entry by editing the batch file as follows:
Where it shows: :CHECKDIRS for %%i in (C D E F A B G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z)
Simply replace the drive letters in the parenthesis with garbage and it'll immediately fail the search, giving you a manual entry prompt instead.
Also as a pre-empt on further confusion, I'm assuming if you need this info it's your first time installing these movies. The program is unclear in its wording shortly afterward, asking if you want to replace your movies or add new ones. You want to "replace" your movies, even though you're not replacing any movies from the original or ones you never installed in the first place.
Yeah, the early method was brute force look for your game directory. Didn't require the user to have any knowledge of file structure or directories, but did take a long time with large hard drives. There really isn't much difference between 'R'eplace or 'A'dd any more as I added checks to see if the new FMVs are already available to shorten the installation time and only update FMVs that might have changed.
This is for all those people who, like me, struggled to install this mod due to the "No additional movie .bin files found in \movie subdirectory" error.
1. The PRIMARY mod file can be located anywhere on your PC. This is the "FF XIII FMV Main Program-18-1-0-8-1665178257" ZIP file 2. EVERY OTHER ZIP FOLDER has a .bin file located inside. When you extract these ZIP folders, you get a \movie folder inside of the extracted folder, and inside that \movie folder are the .bin files. 3. In the PRIMARY MOD FOLDER, create a \movie folder. There is not one already in there, you must create it yourself. This MUST be located in the TOP LEVEL of the PRIMARY MOD FOLDER. If it's located deeper in one of the child folders, the mod WILL NOT LOCATE THE FILES. 4. Copy, cut, or move EVERY .bin file from the movie ZIP folders into your new \movie folder in the PRIMARY MOD FOLDER. As the mod creator has stated, you should have ~106 of these .bin files to paste/move over. 5. At this point you should be able to run the mod as-directed in the mod instructions.
I am getting an error message saying... "Installing HD Movies... No movies .bin found in /movie subdirectory. Exiting Error -9 during movie installation. Press any key to continue..."
stupid questions.... do i have to switch the language in game in english to make this mod work? or i can just install it and play with my main language \\\>O<'///
Can you provide a step by step guide for installing the japanese ending song because i have no idea how to do it with the RADtool and need assistance. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I keep getting this error even though I installed the RADtool and have the proper directory in the BinkDir.txt "Required Bink files not found in C:\Program Files (x86)\RadVideo\. Rad Tools either not installed or BinkDir.txt does not contain the correct path. Press any key to continue . . ."
In the directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\RadVideo\" are there 2 files called "binkmix.exe" and "binkconv.exe"? I'm wondering if the newer versions of RadTools has changed enough to where these files don't exist anymore.
If these files do not exist, did you install the version of RadTools that was provided with the mod zip file, or did you get RadTools directly from the Rad Game Tools (Epic Game Tools) website?
You don't mention where you acquired the Rad Tools, but I'm guessing it's not the one included with the mod (RadTools.7z). Unzip the version included in the mod and install and see if that fixes the problem.
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FINAL FANTASY XIII\white_data\movie\z000_us.win32.wmp
Final Fantasy XIII - Full HD Cutscenes MOD - Google Drive
You're welcome :)
(Luckily I found this after my downloads failed with 4 hours already invested... )
Edit: Finally went through - and got everything working. Thanks for the work.
might be fine for single hard drive machines, but I've got 5 SSD's they aren't slow but big drives, left it for 2 hours and gets to the point I don't know if its working or not, or failing
Where it shows:
:CHECKDIRS
for %%i in (C D E F A B G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z)
Simply replace the drive letters in the parenthesis with garbage and it'll immediately fail the search, giving you a manual entry prompt instead.
Also as a pre-empt on further confusion, I'm assuming if you need this info it's your first time installing these movies. The program is unclear in its wording shortly afterward, asking if you want to replace your movies or add new ones. You want to "replace" your movies, even though you're not replacing any movies from the original or ones you never installed in the first place.
Hope this helps someone out there.
1. The PRIMARY mod file can be located anywhere on your PC. This is the "FF XIII FMV Main Program-18-1-0-8-1665178257" ZIP file
2. EVERY OTHER ZIP FOLDER has a .bin file located inside. When you extract these ZIP folders, you get a \movie folder inside of the extracted folder, and inside that \movie folder are the .bin files.
3. In the PRIMARY MOD FOLDER, create a \movie folder. There is not one already in there, you must create it yourself. This MUST be located in the TOP LEVEL of the PRIMARY MOD FOLDER. If it's located deeper in one of the child folders, the mod WILL NOT LOCATE THE FILES.
4. Copy, cut, or move EVERY .bin file from the movie ZIP folders into your new \movie folder in the PRIMARY MOD FOLDER. As the mod creator has stated, you should have ~106 of these .bin files to paste/move over.
5. At this point you should be able to run the mod as-directed in the mod instructions.
"Installing HD Movies...
No movies .bin found in /movie subdirectory. Exiting
Error -9 during movie installation.
Press any key to continue..."
What do I do here?:(
"Required Bink files not found in C:\Program Files (x86)\RadVideo\. Rad Tools either not installed
or BinkDir.txt does not contain the correct path.
Press any key to continue . . ."
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