change game language from german to english ?

[harry 48]

i bought a game cd , but it is in german can i change the on screen game language

from german to english ? , i no how to play it but its for my grandson to play as well

[kpac]

You'll have to go into the games settings. What is the game?

[harry 48]

luxor and luxor amun rising

[kpac]

I don't know about that... Can you find the settings in it?

From a bit of searching, it appears you can't change the language in it......Just play around with it.

[harry 48]

found all of the settings put them in a folder to post here but it will not go

dont no which one is the one i want

[squall_01]

this may sound conry at the moment but have you thought of google?

[harry 48]

will try it

[squall_01]

ment like the translator they had if nothing else.

[quaxo]

Harry, in most cases, language selection is made during installation, if available at all. In some cases, it may not even include English language files, depending on where it was purchased. If it doesn't ask during installation and there's no way to change it in the options menu, chances are it can't be changed.

However, Luxor is available for play online for free (in English):
http://zone.msn.com/en/luxor/default.htm

Choose option 1 to play online for free.

Option 2 allows you to purchase the English version of the game for play offline. You can buy just that one game for $19.95, or they have other options like if you choose to buy 1 game a month for 6 month, they're just $7.95 each.

this may sound conry at the moment but have you thought of google?

ment like the translator they had if nothing else.

Squally, you never cease to amaze me with your replies. No matter how many times one might try, the Google translator (or any other online translator) will never, ever translate an entire game. Why would you even suggest that? 

[harry 48]

hi quaxo , no selection duing installtion , we do play it free on line , i bought the cd at

a car boot sale but did not know it was german ( titles only ) i'll just have to put up

with it , i might go into settings and mess around see what i can do i can always

reinstall it , harry

[squall_01]

well just write down the bottom few, send them threw and see what it says.  I cant help you sadly since I never taken any of it though.

[harry 48]

do you mean the settings files headers

[squall_01]

yeah, more or less

[harry 48]

ch will not let me send anything and i cant change file set up if you download luxor  you can go into the files and look

[squall_01]

not what I ment, look at the bottom few words which probably be settings.  Then once you write them down take it to google translator to find out what they are.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

If you buy a chinese game, the game will be in Chinese.
If you buy a German game, it will be in German.
If you buy an Engish game, it will be in English.

You cannot change this.

[harry 48]

sorry , i will try tomorrow night , harry

[squall_01]

I thought that surely they would have english like as a second lang choice.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Why spend more money on getting a larger disc or more than on discs to fit both English and German setups? Where's the logic in that, right?

Think of it this way. Do you want to spend more money to get a game that comes with multiple discs, all with different languages?

[squall_01]

No, what?  We have games like halo were you can change it. 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

You cannot change the gameplay language in Halo....

[quaxo]

Why spend more money on getting a larger disc or more than on discs to fit both English and German setups? Where's the logic in that, right?

Think of it this way. Do you want to spend more money to get a game that comes with multiple discs, all with different languages?

Actually, a lot of games include all of the files on the discs, whether they're meant to be changed or not.

For example, the Thai versions of both Battlefield 2 and The Sims 2, which come completely in Thai with no option to change the language through setup or option, can be forced to install in English instead.

For Sims 2, copy all of the files from the first disc to your hard drive. In the Autorun folder, edit autorun.cfg. In the list of languages there, simply change the current setting from 1 to 0 and the language you want from 0 to 1. Save it, run the installer, and the game will install in that language.

English US=1
French=0
German=0
Italian=0
Spanish=0
Swedish=0
Finnish=0
Dutch=0
Danish=0
PortBrzl=0
Czech=0
Hebrew=0
Greek=0
Japanese=0
Korean=0
Russian=0
Chinese (Simplified)=0
Chinese (Traditional)=0
English UK=0
Polish=0
Thai=0
Norwegian=0
Portuguese=0
Hungarian=0

For Battlefield 2 and Special Forces, there's a patch out there that will allow you to change the language pack at anytime with some added options to the start menu, as they all get installed with the game.

[harry 48]

 change game language from german to english ?

i found this , dont understand it , maybe it could help ,  its in the game folders



Using different language formats in NotepadNotepad allows you to create and open documents in several different formats: ANSI, Unicode, big-endian Unicode, or UTF-8. These formats allow you to work with documents that use different character sets.

By default, your documents will be saved as standard ANSI text.

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The bytes (a unit of storage) in a word in a Unicode document created on a big-endian processor, such as the Macintosh, are arranged in an order opposite to that of the bytes in a word in a document created on an Intel processor. The most significant byte has the lowest address, with the word stored big end first. To make your documents accessible to users on these types of computers, save your Notepad file in the big-endian Unicode format.

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[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Qaxo, seems interesting, I might try it and see if it works.

[quaxo]

There are some games out there that don't get all of the files though. Command & Conquer 3, as far as I know, only includes language files specific to the local version (for example, the Thai version only includes the Thai files). There's no way to change this one that I've found.