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Title: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: Keddy on August 02, 2007, 06:35:42 am

Well I have the German version of Freespace 2 but i wanna play it in english.
Is there an english patch or somthing other?
Thx.

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: Turey on August 02, 2007, 07:41:33 am

1. Run my Installer, it'll replace your German voice files with the English ones.
2. Open regedit.exe, and change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Volition\FreeSpace2\Language to English.

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: Keddy on August 02, 2007, 08:14:11 am

Ok thanks, I'll try....well that takes time but ok... ;)

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: 0rph3u5 on August 03, 2007, 04:13:44 pm

aren't messages.tbl, debriefing.tbl and medals.tbl (or what is their name) involved too?

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: Bob-san on August 03, 2007, 04:42:05 pm

Let's make this easy--download the English ISOs?

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: Turey on August 03, 2007, 09:20:48 pm

Quote from: 0rph3u5 on August 03, 2007, 04:13:44 pm

aren't messages.tbl, debriefing.tbl and medals.tbl (or what is their name) involved too?

Maybe, but they'll be updated too, by my Installer.

Quote from: Bob-san on August 03, 2007, 04:42:05 pm

Let's make this easy--download the English ISOs?

That's just silly. Why should he bother downloading all of the game data again, when there's likely quite a lot of overlap between the German and English versions?

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: Bob-san on August 05, 2007, 06:38:57 pm

Well, I'm not sure of what is different--I would assume it could be everything with the file system, the voice-acting is definitely different, as are all missions. Tables could be different too... quite a lot could go on the list though I'll stop there.

Title: Re: Search German --> English Patch for FS2
Post by: taylor on August 05, 2007, 07:45:14 pm

The differences between German and English versions are this:
 - The binary is compiled differently (only affects retail though, FSO can deal with all of that stuff at runtime)
 - The font is different, the German contains the extra characters that the English version lacks
 - The voices are different

.. but that's about it.  The tbls and missions are the same (even the English version has German string translations), and as far as I know all other data is the same.

To convert to a full English version all you really need to do is: get a copy of the English font files (in root_fs2.vp), make sure that the registry doesn't specify German as the game language (it doesn't have to be English, just delete the the key and the game will use the default), copy over the English voices.