You don't want to use a patch on a game meant for another country, if you successfully patch it, one of the bugs resulting will be it hanging trying to find a file for a cut scene.
As for hacking it, it was a God awful lot of work. I don't know if I'd have done it had I known how involved it get, there is so far only one npc that I messed up from hacking it. Fortunately he isn't important and I can leave him sleeping on the cliff.
