Setup

In order to access the strings of Sekiro, two requirements must be met.

1. Unpack the Sekiro .exe with UXM.
2. Have Yabber installed.

➡ Download UXM and Yabber in the Tools page.

Getting started

Once Sekiro has been unpacked, your Sekiro game folder should contain several other folders, like chr, cutscene, event, font, and more.

Among them, the one we want is the msg folder. This contains all of the text files in Sekiro.

Inside most of the folders, you'll find two .msgbnd.dcx files.

In this documentation we'll be looking at the engus folder files.

Accessing files

Yabber's README file contains an important and easy introduction to the software and its uses. We will not go over how to use Yabber in this documentation.

Use Yabber — not Yabber.DCX — to decompress the .msgbnd.dcx files. This will create a new folder of the decompressed file, containing more files.

These files are in the .fmg format. Attempting to open them will result in an unreadable file, as they need to be decompressed. Use Yabber to decompress these files as well.

This will give you a .xml file of the original .fmg file, which you can open in any text editor.

Menu files

The files themselves have Japanese filenames, so here's a table of all the relevant ones.

Filename	Type of content
会話	Dialogue
イベントテキスト	Action labels & prompts
ローディングタイトル	Loading screen titles
ローディングテキスト	Loading screen messages
ムービー字幕	Opening cutscene
血文字	Remnant templates
キーガイド	Interface buttons

Item files

The files themselves have Japanese filenames, so here's a table of all the relevant ones. These files are very poorly organized.

Filename	Type of content
NPC名	NPC names
アイテムうんちく	Ninjutsu
アイテム名	Item names
アイテム説明	Item descriptions
戦技種別	Descriptions for some skills
武器うんちく	Descriptions for some skills and prosthetics
武器名	Descriptions for some skills and prosthetics
武器説明	Descriptions for some skills and prosthetics
防具説明	Skins

Everything else is either a leftover, or not important.