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General discussionWorkaround for playing games detecting language from the OS in your desired language!(37 posts)(37 posts)
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Posted August 05, 2018
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kohlrak: How much of a problem is this for GOG games? So far I haven't noticed it, yet (mostly just japanese games that don't even include the original text/voice/content to begin with).
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MarkoH01: I thought I wrote the answer to your question in the OP you quoted but maybe I need to rephrase this.

There are some games that set the language of the game automatically to the language of your OS without you having the chance to change this (meaning no GOG language selector). The problem occurs only for those who want to play in a different language than their OS is set to. Those games do exist even on GOG (as I said - I needed this tool for Haimrik and Stories also seems to be such a game) not very often though since GOG usually does language selectors whenever they can and they are allowed to but it still exists. It simply depends on the game and you probably will only find this sort of lazy programming in indie games as well.
I smell gogmixers starting a list, soon. I'd be very curious, myself.
Posted August 05, 2018
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MarkoH01: I thought I wrote the answer to your question in the OP you quoted but maybe I need to rephrase this.

There are some games that set the language of the game automatically to the language of your OS without you having the chance to change this (meaning no GOG language selector). The problem occurs only for those who want to play in a different language than their OS is set to. Those games do exist even on GOG (as I said - I needed this tool for Haimrik and Stories also seems to be such a game) not very often though since GOG usually does language selectors whenever they can and they are allowed to but it still exists. It simply depends on the game and you probably will only find this sort of lazy programming in indie games as well.
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kohlrak: I smell gogmixers starting a list, soon. I'd be very curious, myself.
If GOG did not do anything you could add Telltale's Batman to this mix. The second one has a language selector inside of the game but the first one does not (at least in the Telltale release of the game).
Posted August 05, 2018
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zamakli: I have an iPhone 5 bought in Norway. The language setting on the phone is Norwegian, which means menus and such are all shown in Norwegian. The same goes for some "inherent" apps such as the iPhone weather app, which is also in Norwegian. I'm Norwegian, so that's all good.
A Norwegian iPhone must be really expensive.
Posted August 05, 2018
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kohlrak: I smell gogmixers starting a list, soon. I'd be very curious, myself.
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MarkoH01: If GOG did not do anything you could add Telltale's Batman to this mix. The second one has a language selector inside of the game but the first one does not (at least in the Telltale release of the game).
I'd do it myself, but it's quite a project, especially with my gaming laptop, but I'm sure someone will want to do this. I have faith in the gog community of people with decent PCs and a ton of money for games.

I can't imagine why a company wouldn't take the lazier route of not using auto-detection, though. Most users can click a flag.
Posted August 05, 2018
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kohlrak: I can't imagine why a company wouldn't take the lazier route of not using auto-detection, though. Most users can click a flag.
Just to make it clear. The problem with those games is not the auto detection at all. Nobody would have a problem with that. The problem is that after the auto detection there's no way to change the detected language. And usually game devs implement an option to change the language inside of the game. This option is absent in the games here.
Post edited August 05, 2018 by MarkoH01
Posted August 05, 2018
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kohlrak: I can't imagine why a company wouldn't take the lazier route of not using auto-detection, though. Most users can click a flag.
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MarkoH01: Just to make it clear. The problem with those games is not the auto detection at all. Nobody would have a problem with that. The problem is that after the auto detection there's no way to change the detected language. And usually game devs implement an option to change the language inside of the game. This option is absent in the games here.
Is it the same problem as reported here?

https://www.gog.com/forum/8bit_armies/how_to_change_the_language

This worked for me when i couldnt find a way to change the language to english.
Post edited August 05, 2018 by darkangelz
Posted August 05, 2018
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MarkoH01: Just to make it clear. The problem with those games is not the auto detection at all. Nobody would have a problem with that. The problem is that after the auto detection there's no way to change the detected language. And usually game devs implement an option to change the language inside of the game. This option is absent in the games here.
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darkangelz: Is it the same problem as reported here?

https://www.gog.com/forum/8bit_armies/how_to_change_the_language

This worked for me when i couldnt find a way to change the language to english.
In this case the devs or the engine they are using (this kind of parameters I know from UE4) obviously added an option to switch language. It might not have been ingame but even as a launch parameter it's more than the games I am talking about are offering.
Post edited August 05, 2018 by MarkoH01
Posted August 05, 2018
This would be so awesome if it would work all the time, but for some reason it seems to be rather hit or miss. I've mostly run into this problem outside of GOG, but these are the results of some testing I made with games from my collection:

Worked
- Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Zip-File from Humble; but there was another known workaround already)
- FATE (DRM-free installer from Humble; but there was another known workaround already)
- Marc Ecko's Getting Up (Steam; yay!)

No changes
- FATE (Steam)
- Castle of Illusion (Steam)
- Tengami (DRM-free installer form Humble)
- Back to the Future Ep. 1 (Telltale-Installer, possibly Secu-Rom; game won't even run when started with NTLEAS, nothing happens)
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Steam)
- Dust: An Elysian Tale (GOG; there is another workaround for this though)

So apart from Marc Ecko's Getting Up, sadly this doesn't change much for me. Still, it was worth a try, and even getting just one game to switch is a progress already, especially since it's the game where the changes are most significant (now I can finally listen to the original English voiceovers by Talib Kweli).

Btw, just in case someone here might find it interesting or useful, I once made a thread about listing games like that, although it didn't catch on that much. Testing the games above, I also noticed that at least three of them were published by Microsoft, although I'm not sure whether there is any meaning to it or not.
Post edited August 05, 2018 by Leroux
Posted August 05, 2018
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Leroux: I once made a thread about listing games like that,
Oh this is precious !!

I haven't "favourited" a thread for ages, but recently I just added this one (the one we're typing in) to my favourites, and now I'm adding the one you've linked to.

I wish the list was uptodate, because it's a very very definitely "no buy" list, to me. You could add the first season of Telltale's Batman. And could have added the Reservoir Dogs game if it hadn't been removed from the gog libraries.
Posted August 05, 2018
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Telika: You could add the first season of Telltale's Batman.
Is that the GOG version?
Posted August 05, 2018
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Telika: You could add the first season of Telltale's Batman.
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Leroux: Is that the GOG version?
Yes. For all I know, the steam version allows language selection. I haven't bought either yet, though.
Posted August 05, 2018
Also this : https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/always_allow_users_to_select_the_installed_or_used_language
Posted August 05, 2018
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Leroux: Is that the GOG version?
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Telika: Yes. For all I know, the steam version allows language selection. I haven't bought either yet, though.
No, it does not. As I said - even Telltale's own version does not offer language selection for Season 1.
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Leroux: No changes
- Back to the Future Ep. 1 (Telltale-Installer, possibly Secu-Rom; game won't even run when started with NTLEAS, nothing happens)
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Steam)
- Dust: An Elysian Tale (GOG; there is another workaround for this though)
I own the above so I can check these too. Do you mean the digital version of BTTF or the physical (DVD)? Afaik the digital version only supports English (it did support other languages at release but they removed those in the digital release).
Post edited August 05, 2018 by MarkoH01
Posted August 05, 2018
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MarkoH01: Do you mean the digital version of BTTF or the physical (DVD)? Afaik the digital version only supports English (it did support other languages at release but they removed those in the digital release).
The digital version obtained from Telltale's website. The voiceovers are in English, it only affects the text: menus, subtitles, but most annoyingly also in-game text like the objectives and your answers in conversations. So you'd hear the dialogue in English but would answer in German.
Posted August 05, 2018
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MarkoH01: Do you mean the digital version of BTTF or the physical (DVD)? Afaik the digital version only supports English (it did support other languages at release but they removed those in the digital release).
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Leroux: The digital version obtained from Telltale's website. The voiceovers are in English, it only affects the text: menus, subtitles, but most annoyingly also in-game text like the objectives and your answers in conversations. So you'd hear the dialogue in English but would answer in German.
Now I understand. You want to play with English text and English audio instead of German Text and English audio?
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