Saints Row 2

This page contains notes for the game Saints Row 2.

SR2 Text formatting Guide (wip?)#

(Stretched text may not display well on certain browsers but ah well)

mission clear/failure screen

MISSION

Three Kings

Three Kings Complete

onscreen subtitles

Getting out of here's a two man job and no one else will give it a try...

red (made brighter for readability)

Kill the doctor

teal

Buy some new clothes at Sloppy Seconds

green

Pick up the client

mission text

Extracting Guides#

Extracting Packages (.vpp)#

You will need Gibbed tools, specifically a version that ONLY extracts Saints Row 2 stuff. It works on all platforms.

• 1. Click on Gibbed.SaintsRow2.ExtractPackage.exe
• 2. Go the directory of the .vpp files you'll want to extract.
• 3. Remember to save it in an area you'll find the files in.

Extracting Strings#

Starting with this game, strings are now stored as le_strings, which are stored in the misc file and in the vint_docs_dlc file in the DLCs.. You will need any version of Thomas Jepp's Saints Row tools, which can be downloaded at Github here. This method works with the Windows and Xbox 360 versions.

• 1. Copy the desired le_strings file to the same folder as ThomasJepp.SaintsRow, containing the tools.
• 2. Create a new notepad document with any title in mind (it's recommened to keep it simple), but only put in "ThomasJepp.SaintsRow.ExtractStrings.exe sr2 file name.le_strings" inside the text box itself, and save it in the same folder containing the tools and the le_Strings file to be extracted.
• 3. Rename the Notepad document by changing the format from .txt to .bat.
• 4. Click on the newly-reformatted document, and the strings will be extracted into a new Notepad folder.

Other Languages#

Czech, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Korean (identified as sk) and Chinese strings work differently and will appear as gibberish when opened in a program. You will need Phyton3, the extracted charlist .txt files for each language, (found in misc and in that same file due to different platforms and different coding) and the XML fixup for this to work.

NOTE: Make sure Phyton3 is set to the PATH format (which can be done via Environment Variables); newer versions do have that option upon installation.

• 1. Put the Phython script in the same folder, along with the charlist.txt and static.xml/dlc.xml of the desired identical languages.
• 2. in the address bar of the folder, type in cmd.exe to open up the Command Prompt of that folder.
• 3. Cut-paste in the following script which needs to match the following desired text files in the same folder. For example is the Japanese language:

python sr2_xml_charlist.py dec static_jp.xml charlist_jp.txt

• 4. Press return and the text will be converted.