Original Author: Arnel
Mod Website: Spellhold Studios
Mod Forum: Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision for ToB
Note: This mod was first released at starman and has been officially mirrored at Spellhold Studios mirror by Sir BillyBob.
📥 Download the mod at Spellhold Studios
This mod adds a complete romance with Nalia, including the tree of life dialogs, beloved one in danger, Nalia's abduction by Bodhi, and other love related quests. It also adds some new quests and character interactions.
Having Minsc in the party is recommended... 😉
Original note from Sir BillyBob
I simply decided that I wanted another mod to add to my game, so I converted this mod from its original format (which made it incompatible with everything else).
The idea here is that older mods, whether TeamBG's TBG format or IAP or even older WeiDU mods, will get a refresh to become more compatible with other mods.
So what is here? Well, any mod that I can "fix". Mods that don't seem to be supported by their owner anymore, and mods that you all ask me to update. The last one doesn't mean that every old mod out there can be updated. I do have one I have updated that isn't here. The owner is hosting on their own site (which is fine since it is his mod, not mine).
Note: This is a WeiDU-based version of the original mod that was first released at starman.ee. As this site is no more available since many years, it was time to save it from disappearance. It is now hosted at Spellhold Studios with Arnel authorization.
This mod is designed to work on the following Infinity Engine games:
- Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition (BG2EE).
- The original Baldur's Gate II (BG2, or just SoA) with the Throne of Bhaal (ToB) expansion. Make sure you have Throne of Bhaal patched to version 26498. Check the ReadMe files related to your patch in your game folder and the BioWare website if necessary.
- The conversion projects based on ToB: Baldur's Gate Trilogy (BGT) and Enhanced Edition Trilogy (EET).
This is a WeiDU mod, and therefore should be compatible with all WeiDU mods. If you encounter any bugs, please report them on the forum!
Original game players are strongly recommended to download and install the latest version of the BG2 Fixpack before proceeding with the installation of this mod.
Here is the recommended installation order:
- Please install Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision after TobEx, BG2 Fixpack, Ascension and EET.
- Please install Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision before EET_End, and any final "biffing" routines.
If you've previously installed the mod, remove it before extracting the new version. To do this, run setup-luvnalia.exe, un-install all previously installed components and delete the 📁 luvnalia folder.
When installing or un-installing, do not close the DOS window by clicking on the X button! Instead, press the Enter key whenever instructed to do so.
Disable any antivirus or other memory-resident software before installing this or any other mod. Some (particularly avast and Norton!) have a tendency to report false positives with mod activity, resulting in failed installs.
The Enhanced Editions are actively supported games. Please note that every patch update will wipe your current mod setup! If in the middle of a modded game you might want to delay the patch update (if possible) as even after reinstalling the mods, you might not be able to continue with your old save games. Alternatively, copy the whole game's folder into a new one that can be modded and will stay untouched by game patches. It is important that you install the mod to the language version you are playing the game in. Otherwise, the dialogues of the mod will not show but give error messages.
Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision for Windows is distributed as an extractable compressed archive and includes a WeiDU installer.
Extract the contents of the mod archive into the folder of the game you wish to modify (the folder which contains the "CHITIN.KEY" file), using 7zip, WinRAR, or another file compression utility that handles .zip files. On successful extraction, there should be a 📁 luvnalia folder and a setup-luvnalia.exe file in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-luvnalia.exe and follow the instructions on screen.
Run setup-luvnalia.exe in your game folder to reinstall, un-install or otherwise change the components settings.
Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision for Mac OS is distributed is distributed in the same compressed archive and includes a WeiDU installer.
First, extract the files from the archive into your game directory. On successful extraction, there should be a 📁 luvnalia folder, setup-luvnalia and setup-luvnalia.command files in your game folder. To install, simply double-click setup-luvnalia.command and follow the instructions on screen.
Run setup-luvnalia.command in your game folder to reinstall, un-install or otherwise change the components settings.
Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision for Linux is distributed in the same compressed archive and does not include a WeiDU installer.
Extract the contents of the mod to the folder of the game you wish to modify.
Download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from WeiDU.org and copy weidu and weinstall to /usr/bin. Following that, open a terminal, cd to your game installation directory, run tolower and answer 'Y' to both queries. You can avoid running the second option (linux.ini) if you've already ran it once in the same directory. To save time, the archive is already tolowered, so there's no need to run the first option (lowercasing file names) either if you've extracted only this mod since the last time you lowercased file names. If you're unsure, running tolower and choosing both options is the safe bet.
To install, run weinstall setup-luvnalia in your game folder. Then run wine bgmain.exe (or wine baldur.exe for EE games) and start playing.
In addition to the methods above for removing individual components, you can completely un-install the mod using setup-luvnalia --uninstall at the command line to remove all components without wading through prompts.
Author: Arnel
WeiDU coding: Sir BillyBob
- Spellhold Studios team for hosting the mod (Forums)
- TheWizard for also hosting this mod.
- Arnel, where ever you are, for creating this mod.
- Russian translation: Badgert, Lessar & aerie.ru.
- Native EE compatibility: tipun and Austin (Arcanecoast Team), and Gwendolyne.
- Argent77: WeiDU library to dynamically patch scripts.
- AL|EN for his Infinity Auto Packager tool.
- Everyone else from The Gibberlings Three, Spellhold Studios forums, and the other Infinity Engine gaming and modding communities who offered their help and support.
- WeiDU, by Wes Weimer, the bigg and Wisp.
- Near Infinity, by Jon Olav Hauglid, FredSRichardson, and Argent77.
- IESDP, maintained by igi and lynx.
- DLTCEP, by Avenger..
- WinRAR, by Eugene Roshal/Alexander Roshal.
- Notepad++, by the Notepad++ team, Don Ho, and the spellcheck plug-in.
- WeiDU Notepad++ Highlighters, by Argent77.
- Infinity Auto Packager, by AL|EN.
The Arnel's Nalia Romance Revision mod is not developed, supported, or endorsed by BioWare™ or Interplay/BlackIsle, Overhaul, Beamdog or the Wizards of the Coast. It was developed by Arnel, based on material from the game Baldur's Gate and its expansion.
Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal © TSR, Inc. The BioWare Infinity Engine is © BioWare Corp. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
This mod was created to be freely enjoyed by all Baldur's Gate players, and its content is free of rights. Please note that any and all redistribution and/or hosting of this mod is prohibited without permission from the authors.
The modding community for the Infinity Engine has been going strong for more than 10 years now, and is the culmination of thousands of unpaid modding hours by fellow fans of the game. Modders produce their best work and players get the best, well-supported mods when we all work together.
There are two big ways to upset this harmony. One is to claim someone else's work as your own. The second is to host and redistribute a mod without permission from the author(s).
- Added luvnalia.ini metadata file (including dynamic install order syntax and global
LABELS) to support AL|EN's "Project Infinity". - Renamed setup-luvnalia.tp2 -> luvnalia.tp2 and moved it to mod top folder to support AL|EN's "Project Infinity".
- Replaced
AUTHORkeyword withSUPPORT. - Added
VERSIONflag. - Replaced
AT_INTERACTIVE_EXITdeprecated command withREADME. - Added Immutability concept.
- Added WeiDU's built-in
HANDLE_CHARSETSfunction to convert string entries for EE games. - Added
REQUIRE_PREDICATEconditions to avoid installing the mod in inaccurate games. - Added component
DESIGNATEDnumber and "arnel_nalia_romance"LABEL. - Added native BG2:EE and EET compatibility.
- Commented code as much as possible.
- Fixed the bug interrupting the dialog when Isaea proposes a duel and Minsc is in the group.
- Fixed the Isaea's guards not leaving the keep after wedding bugs (here).
- Fixed the bug where Isaea did not kidnap Nalia in some cases (if NaliaRomanceActive variable was set to 1 or 2).
- badbadai.baf and badbadog.baf: Included BWP Fixpack Lollorian's replacements patch (replaced
!Dead(Myself)with!StateCheck(Myself,STATE_REALLY_DEAD)). - AR2904.bcs patching: Included BWP Fixpack compatibility issues with "BG2 Fixpack".
- BG2:EE compatibility: Replaced script patching with
GET_SCRIPT_BLOCKWeiDU function (courtesy of Argent77). - Hardcoded items' names.
- Added missing journal entries.
- Fixed typos.
- Split setup.tra files into separate thematic files for more comfortable readability.
- Updated and renamed readme file to luvnalia-readme-english.html, then moved it into new 📁 "readme" folder.
- Removed useless files and 📁 "backup" folder.
- Reorganized mod architecture tree: created or renamed folders to sort files according to their types.
- Lower cased files.
- Included Linux and Mac OS versions in the same package (thanks AL|EN's Infinity Auto Packager tool!).
- Added archive libiconv-1.9.2-1-src.7z with iconv license info.
- Updated WeiDU installer to v247.
- Uploaded mod to official Spellhold Studios GitHub mirror account.
- Added Russian translation (by Badgert).
- Traified the files and ran all dialogs through MS-Word for spell checking.
- First conversion to WeiDU.
- Last of the Arnel's versions.