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Posted March 25, 2016
Keep an eye out for these localized game versions that just hit our catalog.



Throughout the years, many of the games that are part of GOG.com have seen localized releases and we ventured to collect many of them with the help of our dedicated community and a thorough search through our master archives. Today, 21 games featuring some of these elusive releases enter our wonderful, digitized catalog.

Learning a foreign language is no easy task, although games have been known to expedite the process. And hunting down localized versions comes with its own challenges but we are not ones to give up easily. Besides, we were not alone in this noble quest. Many of the localized versions on this list come from our personal collections, others we acquired through persistent eBay hunting, but a good number of them were submitted by members of our wonderful multilingual community, that humbled us with their generosity. Let’s take a moment to offer these people a resounding high-five and a warm "thank you" for making this Community Language Pack possible with their contributions.

Without further ado, let's take a look at the extensive list of localized versions, debuting today on GOG.com:



<span class="bold">Afterlife</span>: French, Italian, Spanish
Thanks MIK0 for the Italian version
<span class="bold">The 11th Hour</span>: German
Thanks MarkoH01
<span class="bold">Beneath a Steel Sky</span>: Italian, German, Spanish
Thanks ScummVM.org
<span class="bold">Gothic</span>: Polish, Czech
From our archives
<span class="bold">In Cold Blood</span>: German
Thanks MarkoH01
<span class="bold">Indiana Jones&reg; and the Emperor's Tomb</span>: Italian
Thanks evrit
<span class="bold">Lands of Lore 3</span>: German
Thanks Pixelion
<span class="bold">Lure of the Temptress</span>: Italian, German, Spanish
Thanks Toelupe for the Italian version, ScummVM.org for German & Spanish
<span class="bold">Master of Orion 2</span>: Italian, Spanish
From our archives
<span class="bold">Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi</span>: French
Thanks MaxFulvus
<span class="bold">Realms of the Haunting</span>: Italian, Spanish
From our archives
<span class="bold">SHOGO: Mobile Armor Division</span>: French
Thanks Lukin86
<span class="bold">Silver</span>: French, German
Thanks Pixelion for the German version
<span class="bold">Simon the Sorcerer 3D</span>: German
Thanks MarkoH01
<span class="bold">Star Wars&trade;: Rogue Squadron 3D</span>: French
Thanks Lukin86
<span class="bold">Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive</span>: German
Thanks MarkoH01
<span class="bold">The Feeble Files</span>: Italian, Spanish
From our archives
<span class="bold">Wing Commander 3&trade; Heart of the Tiger&trade;</span>: German
Thanks alexander090165
<span class="bold">World in Conflict: Complete Edition</span>: French, Italian, German, Spanish
Thanks Lukin86
<span class="bold">Wing Commander&trade; 5 Prophecy Gold Edition</span>: German
Thanks alexander090165
<span class="bold">Lords of the Realm: Royal Edition</span>: German
Thanks alexander090165

Correction: The French version of Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi was submitted by MaxFulvus. Telika supplied the French manual. We apologize for this error.

A huge thanks to all these people and the team at ScummVM.org for their numerous donations — both physical and digital. Good job, you guys. We may speak different languages, live in different parts of the world, or even enjoy different genres. But we are all gamers, and that's a word that sounds awesome in every language, n'est-ce pas?


Note: These language versions will be getting gradually rolled out today, so don't fret if you don't see your language version right away.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Kirben: Lure of the Temptress sounds amazing when using a Roland LAPC-1, for people lucky enough to own one. But the GOG version is limited to ScummVM, so it isn't possible to even enable Roland LAPC-1/MT-32 manually. Check the video below to see what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CngUi4K2BPc
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Shendue: Uh...I'm pretty sure i was able to enable MT-32 in Lure of the Temptress back then, after messing up a bit with the installation files. Maybe my memory is faulty? I'll re-install it back from GOG and see if I can do it again.
Roland LAPC-1/MT-32 can only be enabled in the original game, but the original executable file isn't included in the version provided by GOG.
Posted March 26, 2016
How do one go about to help out with this? I have the swedish version of The longest journey in my physical collection and would love to see it added to GOG.
Posted March 26, 2016
Yes! We need more of the glorious Polish versions of Gothic series!
Posted March 26, 2016
GOG, wouldn't it be more convenient if we could get a list of the games and languages that you are looking for?
Posted March 26, 2016
I've got the Polish versions of Syberia I and Syberia II that were included with a games magazine (CD-Action?) a couple years back, fortunately they appear to be DRM-free. I could help GoG with adding support for that localisation if they would like to.

I was thinking of buying Syberia I and II a couple of times on GoG, but without the Polish versions there's nothing that justifies the purchase for me, unfortunately (other than having my whole library consolidated within GoG).

The version I have is already DRM-free. I've got the free game download hosting (via a 3rd party service with unlimited transfer and storage) and I have the Polish language version which GoG doesn't have, so for now I decided not to buy on GoG, although I'd really like to do that and support them and the great work they're doing.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by pandrus1
Posted March 26, 2016
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pandrus1: I've got the Polish versions of Syberia I and Syberia II that were included with a games magazine (CD-Action?) a couple years back, fortunately they appear to be DRM-free. I could help GoG with adding support for that localisation if they would like to.

I was thinking of buying Syberia I and II a couple of times on GoG, but without the Polish versions there's nothing that justifies the purchase for me, unfortunately (other than having my whole library consolidated within GoG).

The version I have is already DRM-free. I've got the free game download hosting (via a 3rd party service with unlimited transfer and storage) and I have the Polish language version which GoG doesn't have, so for now I decided not to buy on GoG, although I'd really like to do that and support them and the great work they're doing.
I also have some games with polish localization, but i think GoG already stated that there are legal laws preventing them from using it.
Posted March 26, 2016
While at some point I preferred my games in English its a very cool story. Great to have ppl around caring enough to provide old copies and gog.com caring enough to update the games.

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park_84: GOG, wouldn't it be more convenient if we could get a list of the games and languages that you are looking for?
Yeah... what he says :)

edit To elaborate more i.e.: How would I know that you might also look for a German Wing Commander Academy & how would you prefer to get it? When would I get it back? Or games like Codename: Iceman which you probably are allowed to sell like the PQ games from Sierra but might just not have.

Your more "elderly" (*cough*) fans probably do have some hidden pearls they would love to provide if they knew that you need it & how long they might part of it.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by anothername
Posted March 26, 2016
Awesome additions. It's always great to see GoG still caring for it's initial missions like making good old games and all their features and boni available again. Having the chance to play games in the original language, your own one or a language you are currently learning is worth a lot.

Too bad that my Spanish, Geman, French, etc... language version of Giants and my German Ultima 9 still didn't make it yet, hopefully they'll arrive sometime this year since they're in the queue for quite a while since 04/2015.
At least my Fallout 1+2+Tactics and Syndicate Wars files made it into the catalogue fast.

*updating archive*
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Klumpen0815
Posted March 26, 2016
Any chance of Zeus + Poseidon getting ìts German translation?
Posted March 26, 2016
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InfraSuperman: By the way, if you're interested, here are a few P&C adventures with German language support that I highly recommend:

Simon the Sorcerer
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!
Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate
Normality

And now Beneath a Steel Sky as well; one of the greatest adventure games ever.
Thank you for being so thoughtful! :D
I will check them out.
Posted March 26, 2016
Nice additions!

Does the german installer of Silver include the german manual? If not it can be found in this thread:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_de/sammelthread_deutschsprachige_handbucher/page1

Would be nice if GOG adds it to the downloadable extras. ;)
Posted March 26, 2016
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Impaler26: Nice additions!

Does the german installer of Silver include the german manual? If not it can be found in this thread:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_de/sammelthread_deutschsprachige_handbucher/page1

Would be nice if GOG adds it to the downloadable extras. ;)
The German installer contains the English manual.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Shendue: Uh...I'm pretty sure i was able to enable MT-32 in Lure of the Temptress back then, after messing up a bit with the installation files. Maybe my memory is faulty? I'll re-install it back from GOG and see if I can do it again.
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Kirben: Roland LAPC-1/MT-32 can only be enabled in the original game, but the original executable file isn't included in the version provided by GOG.
I just re-installed it and enabled My Roland MT-32, which I connected to my pc via a USB adapter, to play the music.
You just have to go to the installation folder, modify a line in lure.ini from "native_mt32=false" to "native_mt32=true", then go into the ScummVM subfolder, launch ScummVM and select the correct audio options for the game (choose the USB adapter from the list of available options, check "disable GM emulation") and then run the game.

I did, tho, experience some issue, since some of the instruments are not right, but I can't tell if that depends from the version of the game they are using or, more likely, from ScummVM forcing general midi sound from the Roland instead of the specifically written MT-32 sound for whatever reason.

EDIT: I unchecked the "disable GM emulation" for good measure and it sounds even different, and way worse, therefore I guess ScummVM was NOT forcing general midi (when it does, it sounds like crap, not just some wrong instruments). Maybe the difference in sound from Dosbox to ScummVM with an actual Roland MT-32 has something to do with a well known bug in the 1st generation Roland MT-32 modules (like mine) that makes them not sound correctly due to the buffer being too slow to cope up with the sysex data trasmission. Dosbox already solved the issue by including an in-built delay in the data trasmission of a few seconds in the newer versions of the program, and possibly ScummVM didn't. That would explain the difference.

Anyway, if somehow limited in how it works with older modules, I further confirm that the GOG/ScummVM version of the game DOES support an actual Roland MT-32. I don't have a more recent MT-32 module, but i'm moderately sure that more recent revisions of the MT-32 (or a CM-32L) wouldn't even experience the issue I mentioned.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Shendue
Posted March 26, 2016
Hey, staff, I sincerely doubt this changes anything, but I have Polish versions of Rayman 2 and 3. Used to be quite popular around here, Licomp Em-whatever Multimedia seems to somehow keep existing, and R3 had a voiceover, so I assume licensing problems - but, well, just in case.
Posted March 26, 2016
Would love to see the original Deutsch versions of the entire [strike]Gothic[/strike] and Two Worlds series! (The Two Worlds Saga is just....Painful...)...Though I'm glad to see that at least for the first Gothic, that they're not sounding like the cast from good fella's! xD

EDIT, Never mind about the Gothic series, just saw my games!
Post edited March 26, 2016 by takezodunmer2005
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