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Title: Translated versions of FS
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on December 28, 2009, 10:25:00 am

How to set FS to an other language, and which ones are available? Been looking all through the Wiki and the forums, but the best I could find dated back from 2002 and was... vague at best.
Voice acting is only in English, I guess?

Title: Re: Translated versions of FS
Post by: Jeff Vader on December 28, 2009, 10:36:11 am

The official localized releases of FS1 and FS2 (like German) include the voice files in the same language. As for other languages, I know that at least an Italian translation is under construction. Ish. The last time I heard, Mobius was having one of his "I don't believe in promotion and status reports" phases so no one really knows how it is coming along.

Title: Re: Translated versions of FS
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on December 28, 2009, 10:54:39 am

So it's not possible to just "switch over" from the normal version to another language?

Title: Re: Translated versions of FS
Post by: Ziame on December 28, 2009, 11:38:05 am

You must have them on your HDD, like in most games' case. From the top of my head, there's English, German and Polish done officially that I know.

Title: Re: Translated versions of FS
Post by: Thaeris on December 28, 2009, 12:11:13 pm

Wasn't there a French version as well?

Title: Re: Translated versions of FS
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on December 28, 2009, 12:39:24 pm

Are these files for download as add-on somewhere, or must they be purchased from GOG?

Title: Re: Translated versions of FS
Post by: Jeff Vader on December 28, 2009, 01:08:10 pm

You should be able to translate the main campaign (and probably any pure text parts of the interface) by extracting Strings.tbl and Tstrings.tbl, translating them and then using them as a mod of sorts. I don't think there's any method to switch languages in-game with a flick of a button, but you should be able to change the language by using different versions of Strings.tbl and Tstrings.tbl.