Two fixes: questions you couldn't answer now work, and every character uses their official name
v2.6.1 fixes two things. First, a set of conversations asked you a question — the study-session rune check, classroom lessons, the garage-sale trade — but the Yes/No or choice box never opened, so you got stuck. That's fixed: 80 broken choice prompts are restored across the game. Second, v2.6 had accidentally shipped with its NPC names reverted to the old placeholders (Prince Quartz, Chocolate, Purr Timer) and the village name list back in Japanese — the official names are now actually in the game.
3 change groups in this release. The v2.6 name fix: 264 nameplate records restored.
A set of conversations asked a question — the study-session rune check, classroom lessons, the garage-sale trade — but the Yes/No or choice box never opened, leaving you stuck. The patch's text rebuilder had been dropping the instruction that opens the menu, in two different ways. Both are fixed, 80 such triggers are restored across the game, and the build now refuses to ship if any choice trigger is missing.
v2.6's name files had been silently overwritten back to their old state by a build-tree recovery two days before release. All 264 name records are restored: the 101 official nameplate renames, the English village name list, and the two approved spelling decisions (Jack-o-Lantern, Dullahan's Body).
The verification gate searched the ROM for names and menu triggers as raw text, which could not see inside the game's compressed files (and names like King or Coco occur elsewhere as ordinary words). The build now decompresses those files and checks the actual records — all 644 NPC names against a committed snapshot, and every menu trigger against the Japanese original — on every build.
Released patch — Same patch format as v2.6: one xdelta3 patch per ROM revision; both produce the same patched ROM byte-for-byte.
If you already applied v2.6, re-patch a clean Japanese ROM with v2.6.1. Saves are unaffected.
48808c5f…747fe56d.tongari-boushi-en-v2.6.1-rev0.xdelta and tongari-boushi-en-v2.6.1-rev1.xdelta matching the Rev 0 / Rev 1 ROM revisions.notes/CHANGELOG_v2.6.1.md — prose changelog.notes/changes/step-397-restore-canon-names.json — all 264 restored name records, before/after.