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Hi folks,

I purchased U8 and run this game with Pentagram. It runs fine, but only in english. Is there a way to play the GoG.com-Version in german?
Is there a patch out there designed to run the base Ultima 8 in German? I might be able to get that to run with gog.com but I can't find a patch for it at all anywhere.
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TrueMrReset: Hi folks,

I purchased U8 and run this game with Pentagram. It runs fine, but only in english. Is there a way to play the GoG.com-Version in german?
I think i can remember, you have to modefy the U8.ini for german setting, but not sure and cannot try it at the moment, because...

I didn´t get it startet at all. The paths in the ini is ok, but if i launch pentagram.exe, there is a fast scrolling "boottext" (to fast to read) and nothing happens.
Ultima 8 had the language files for English, French and German in the CD/Gold release which GOG has on here. So there should be some way to set this, if I remember correctly there was a setup program that set this among other thngs. But it very likely only change the ini file.
The other problem is of course that Pentagram is still a work in progress unfortunately, and it is very likely that the support for French and German has not been fully implemented yet. I'm not even sure if it is already completeable, development seems to be rather slow since I stumbled upon this project and Exult in 2006.
I run the Gog-Version and it's in german, but the same version runs in Pentagram only in english ...
How did you get it to work?

Edit: get it to work

Game is loaded in english too.
Post edited April 15, 2013 by BerlinAlex
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TrueMrReset: I run the Gog-Version and it's in german, but the same version runs in Pentagram only in english ...
It is possible to run Pentagram with the german Ultima 8.
All you have to do, is to delete the the file inside the Ultima8 Install path ... GERMAN/usecode/eusecode.flx, so it will only find the German (gusecode.flx) one.

Of course you have to point the path in the pentagram.ini to the U8.exe inside the GERMAN Folder,

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See allso http://sourceforge.net/p/pentagram/bugs/282/
The GOG version inside the GERMAN directory seems to have both the English and German usecode files installed, and we pick the English one. You can try deleting the file GERMAN/usecode/eusecode.flx, so it will only find the German (gusecode.flx) one. ...)

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Anleitung zu Pentagram, für das deutsche U8:

1) In der pentagram.ini unter C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Pentagram folgendes einstellen:
path=D:\GOG Games\Ultima 8\GERMAN
save=D:\GOG Games\Ultima 8\GERMAN\Savegame
Wenn das Spiel unter D: installiert wurde, ansonsten natürlich den eigentlichen Pfad angeben.

2) Im Installationsverzeichnis ... Ultima 8/GERMAN/usecode/ die Datei "eusecode.flx" löschen so das Pentagram
gezwungen wird "gusecode.flx" zu benutzen.
Post edited November 29, 2015 by marmormurmel