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I quickly discovered that the gibberish written all over the place is a mono-alphabetic cipher. It was easy to crack, but, I'd rather not have to do the replacements by hand (or google that particular translation) every time I want to read something.
Now that the game is out for PC, is there some way to replace the font-files in game so these show up in English?
There is one room in particular that provides what you're looking for. You don't need to copy NPC dialog, though part of the fun is copying the other wall-writings for later consideration. So there is no single intended method (I imagine most people will look online)—your method could work, though it sounds frustrating.
Want a hint for that room's location?
It's off of the waterfall room.
Want an even bigger hint?
A pillar in the room links the code to an English pangram (sentence containing every letter of the alphabet).
And to give it away:
In the tree room above the waterfall, a fox jumps over a dog next to this pillar, which reads all the way around: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." (image)
A redditor recently solved this here. It turns out that the key to this puzzle was the release date of Fez, 4/13/2012.
If this date is turned into a string of numbers and rearranged using the page order from the tome (15263748), the resulting string is 4011322. This number is then converted into Fez numbers and those fez numbers converted into directions by interpreting the dash in the number as part of the T tetromino (Up, Jump, Right, Right, Left, Down, Down).
Rights and Lefts are then turned into RTs and LTs since Rights and Lefts would cause Fez to move off the magic location. If the pattern of arrows on the map is completed, it would imply that this sequence should be read bottom-up, resulting in a final solution of Down, Down, LT, RT, RT, Jump, Up.
Best Answer
Fez's source code has been decompiled (and can easily be done), so it is entirely possible to do this. It, however, has not been done already. Do you want to do it? ;)
You should note, however, that this would only fix the chat with the hexahedron, zu villagers, etc. It would NOT fix the artifacts (including the tome I believe), and any clues thrown about the environment (engraved into walls, etc.) because these are predefined art assets. One would need to edit all of these assets individually in order to translate them.
Cipher for the alphabet:
Cipher for the numbers: