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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: Also while on the subject of translations, why is the Pajama Sam series still lacking all non-English versions, compared to Steam? I expect GOG are losing many sales, due to the continued lack of any non-English versions.
Althought I'm not the one questioned, but... it could be a law suit case - if the right holders didn't agree for GOG to sell all languages, they CAN'T sell them. Being it addition or not.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Kirben: I'm really getting tired of the complete lack of care by GOG.

I have tried contacting GOG (as ScummVM developer) several times about the major sound problems with Lure of the Temptress, due to using ScummVM, rather than DOSBox. Specifically the sound under ScummVM is broken (Adlib) and incomplete (Roland MT-32), which makes the Black Smith in particular difficult to find. But the new languages for Lure of the Temptress are still using ScummVM!

Also while on the subject of translations, why is the Pajama Sam series still lacking all non-English versions, compared to Steam? I expect GOG are losing many sales, due to the continued lack of any non-English versions.
Could you PM me the technical info about the ScummVM versions that you say are broken?

Also, please note that I am not sure what we can really do about the issue with Roland MT-32 since that technology is licensed and copyrighted and we cannot include it in our builds. Of course, I could be reading your post wrong and you might be talking about something else related to Roland MT-32.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Kirben: I'm really getting tired of the complete lack of care by GOG.

I have tried contacting GOG (as ScummVM developer) several times about the major sound problems with Lure of the Temptress, due to using ScummVM, rather than DOSBox. Specifically the sound under ScummVM is broken (Adlib) and incomplete (Roland MT-32), which makes the Black Smith in particular difficult to find. But the new languages for Lure of the Temptress are still using ScummVM!

Also while on the subject of translations, why is the Pajama Sam series still lacking all non-English versions, compared to Steam? I expect GOG are losing many sales, due to the continued lack of any non-English versions.
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JudasIscariot: Could you PM me the technical info about the ScummVM versions that you say are broken?

Also, please note that I am not sure what we can really do about the issue with Roland MT-32 since that technology is licensed and copyrighted and we cannot include it in our builds. Of course, I could be reading your post wrong and you might be talking about something else related to Roland MT-32.
I tried contacting you in the past via PM, but you could only suggest submitting another support request, which ended up ignored again. So I will expand in public this time:

Simply compare the start of the game play in Lure of the Temptress under ScummVM (any version), to the video below of the Adlib sound in the original game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qZvcJADNE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=3m43s

You will notice ScummVM sounds nothing like the original games at all. The Adlib support in ScummVM is incomplete, and there is no support for Roland MT-32 sound at all under ScummVM.

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
Posted March 26, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Nice try but it won't work....not that we don't want it, no, but the last patch for the game (which is needed if you even want to think about using the Circle of Eight mod) simply overrides any language and changes it to English from what our tech who specializes in making old games work tells me.
Might be a different skill set, but...
Posted March 26, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Nice try but it won't work....not that we don't want it, no, but the last patch for the game (which is needed if you even want to think about using the Circle of Eight mod) simply overrides any language and changes it to English from what our tech who specializes in making old games work tells me.
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Gydion: Might be a different skill set, but...
I may be a bit thick here (it's kinda late here in Poland...) but I see nothing, at first glance, about additional language support and Temple+
Posted March 26, 2016
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JudasIscariot: I may be a bit thick here (it's kinda late here in Poland...) but I see nothing, at first glance, about additional language support and Temple+
Well, there isn't any. They seem quite knowledgeable about the game and seem to have made some significant strides in fixing some save game corruptions issues. I was more suggesting that GOG might want to scout them presuming both parties are interested and if they think they could do something about the other languages.
Posted March 26, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Could you PM me the technical info about the ScummVM versions that you say are broken?

Also, please note that I am not sure what we can really do about the issue with Roland MT-32 since that technology is licensed and copyrighted and we cannot include it in our builds. Of course, I could be reading your post wrong and you might be talking about something else related to Roland MT-32.
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Kirben: I tried contacting you in the past via PM, but you could only suggest submitting another support request, which ended up ignored again. So I will expand in public this time:

Simply compare the start of the game play in Lure of the Temptress under ScummVM (any version), to the video below of the Adlib sound in the original game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qZvcJADNE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=3m43s

You will notice ScummVM sounds nothing like the original games at all. The Adlib support in ScummVM is incomplete, and there is no support for Roland MT-32 sound at all under ScummVM.

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
Forgive me if I sound dumb here and please don't take this question the wrong way but what would you like for us to do to ensure the ScummVm versions we have on offer here are up to your satisfaction as a ScummVM developer?
Posted March 26, 2016
I didn't know these kind of contributions were appreciated.
Since i'm a retro physical collector (of point-and-click adventures, mostly) I have several italian versions of old games. I'll check if there's some that isn't available here on GOG yet.
Post edited March 26, 2016 by Shendue
Posted March 26, 2016
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JudasIscariot: Could you PM me the technical info about the ScummVM versions that you say are broken?

Also, please note that I am not sure what we can really do about the issue with Roland MT-32 since that technology is licensed and copyrighted and we cannot include it in our builds. Of course, I could be reading your post wrong and you might be talking about something else related to Roland MT-32.
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Kirben: I tried contacting you in the past via PM, but you could only suggest submitting another support request, which ended up ignored again. So I will expand in public this time:

Simply compare the start of the game play in Lure of the Temptress under ScummVM (any version), to the video below of the Adlib sound in the original game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qZvcJADNE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=3m43s

You will notice ScummVM sounds nothing like the original games at all. The Adlib support in ScummVM is incomplete, and there is no support for Roland MT-32 sound at all under ScummVM.

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
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.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Kirben: I tried contacting you in the past via PM, but you could only suggest submitting another support request, which ended up ignored again. So I will expand in public this time:

Simply compare the start of the game play in Lure of the Temptress under ScummVM (any version), to the video below of the Adlib sound in the original game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qZvcJADNE&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=3m43s

You will notice ScummVM sounds nothing like the original games at all. The Adlib support in ScummVM is incomplete, and there is no support for Roland MT-32 sound at all under ScummVM.

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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JudasIscariot: Forgive me if I sound dumb here and please don't take this question the wrong way but what would you like for us to do to ensure the ScummVm versions we have on offer here are up to your satisfaction as a ScummVM developer?
In case I was not clear enough, I'm asking you to use DOSBox for Lure of the Temptress. The sound support for Lure of the Temptress in ScummVM has always been broken as I explained, and very unlikely to be fixed anytime soon. Using ScummVM only causes people to get a negative experience of the game, GOG and ScummVM, since one part (sound) of the game is broken/incomplete.

To give a game play example: The player needs to find the blacksmith, which can't be heard due to the broken sound.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Shendue: I didn't know these kind of contributions were appreciated.
Since i'm a retro physical collector (of point-and-click adventures, mostly) I have several italian versions of old games. I'll check if there's some that isn't available here on GOG yet.
I think (presumably) Judas would appreciate you messaging him about this.
Posted March 26, 2016
Though I applaud the effort that's being put into creating localized versions of all these games, there's also a part of me that gets annoyed more and more often.

For example, getting help on the internet is much easier if you can ask your question in English, because most forums and helpdesks and such are English-oriented. The English knowledge base is much broader than any other. But if you get a localized version, it's not always easy to guess the EXACT english phrase for all the localized terms used in a program. This makes it harder to get the correct help for your exact issue.
It's almost impossible to get a non-Dutch (or non-localized) version of Windows here in the Netherlands. I'd prefer to have the international (or English) version, but must make do with Dutch. And most programs (including games) will not even ask you for your preferred language anymore... They'll just assume that you want them to be installed in the default language provided by Windows. I hate most Dutch translations; they're so bland, childish, long-winded, they choose poor words and phrases, and the spelling is often atrocious.

And the same trend is now also showing on the internet... it's getting harder and harder to make clear to my browser and the Google engine that I do NOT want google.nl, but prefer google.com instead.

Localizations, fine. But leave the choice with the user what language they prefer to use.
Posted March 26, 2016
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Treasure: Hum... Maybe you should let fronzelneekburm know, in order for him to add the game to his Second Class Gogmix if those languages don't come soon here...
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Grargar: I'll ask Judas first.

Edit: Wait, nevermind. The extra languages were made by the community. I'm not sure if GOG would accept them.
Not sure if that's been answered already but the languages are technically in the game already as they can be downloaded from within the game.
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Posted March 26, 2016
Good job GOG staff and contributors. I usually play games in the original English, but sometimes the game was translated from another language I don't understand, and the French translation is actually better than the English one. Or French is actually the dev's language. In those cases I'm very happy to have a French version.
Posted March 26, 2016
Just wanted to say keep up the good work GOG.
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