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Re-implementation of Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
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Scrolling text not localized #1613

Open Wronschien opened 8 months ago

Wronschien commented 8 months ago

Original bug

No

Operating system

Windows

Bug description

When text is scrolling in the background to give instructions to the player, it remains in English while other assets are translated

Repro steps

Just start the game with a localized version of the game (steam has them but not gog sadly)

Save file

No response

Log

myeasylog.log

mouzedrift commented 8 months ago

This is an issue with how the original game handles raw text in different parts of the game, for example, in the pause menu, LCD screen messages, and hint fly messages. The game stores text in the executable instead of a separate file, and that's also why the original game doesn't have a setting in the options to change the language. R.E.L.I.V.E. is based on the english GOG version, so you'll have english strings but still the correct language for cams and sounds because they are stored in separate files and not in the executable. It is planned to allow switching the text language in the future, but it's a lot of effort because the game has multiple font images that aren't the same in different languages, and there's also work being done on many other things.

Wronschien commented 8 months ago

Indeed it's not that big of a problem and can wait after more important updates. Thanks for the quick answer !