I've tried to find the answers to these questions on my own, searching the forums with every relevant-sounding query I could think of, reading the rules and the Master-Guide to Modding, reading the rules in the request board to find that I shouldn't post there, skimming other threads to get a sense of the etiquette here, and installing Frontend to see whether it had the feature I was looking for.
To the point, I have two questions, the first having driven me here and the second having come up during my efforts at answering it:
1: I just started G13 and found that the NPC dialogue during the theatre missions doesn't wait for player prompts to continue but carries on at its own pace, too quickly for me to read. Is there a mod that disables this, making these dialogue boxes behave like the ones in the rest of the game? If so, is it included in or safely usable with any of Frontend, Tiara, Abyss, or Kanan?
2: Frontend at least warns that it should only be installed over a clean client, and the other mod packs in the sidebar (Tiara, Abyss, and Kanan) seem to make changes on a similar scale as far as I can tell without risking installing them on top of Frontend, but I've seen posts where people claim to combine them. Should each of Frontend, Tiara, Abyss, and Kanan be installed only on its own, can some combinations of them be safely used together, or is this redundant?
I apologize if, despite my precautions, I've broken any rules or made any social faux pas with this post.
1) Not the slightest clue.
2) Frontend is... a frontend. It's an automated tool to download, install, and use various mods. You can install more mods + frontend, but it's probably better to use just frontend, or just other mods. Not due to errors or issues, but simplicity. If you're going to use frontend, it's probably better to keep them all within frontend. (frontend can also install abyss, do not remember if it can do kanan, and most of it's data mods are the same as the ones from tiara)
Frontend also will contain several tools we use for modding. Such as the packing tools I'm sure you found from reading the guides. As well as map making tools, and several other nifty tools.
Tiara, though. Is a data mod compilation. Abyss and Kanan are not data mods, so combining them doesn't interfere with each other.
Abyss and Kanan are both memory mods, which... They can break each other. The solution however, is super simple. Open the config for each, and make sure no mods are shared.
Quick example, cp reader mod;
Enabled on Abyss, disabled on Kanan = works.
Disabled on Abyss, enabled on Kanan = works.
Enabled on Abyss, enabled on Kanan = problem.
You only want 1 functioning copy. Never 2.
You also can, within Abyss, load Kanan, by adding it to the loaddll= line in the .ini file. Useful if you don't want to keep having to load kanan via the .exe, but still want both to run.
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