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8 years ago
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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Language issues

I bought dragon age inquisition GOTY edition and went on to install it. When downloading it, it only gave me the option for Portuguese, even though, both my system and origin settings are all in Engl...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Unbelievable. Doing that actually works. What you need to do, if you have the "portuguese" version is the following:

    Go to the data/win32/ folder and check the following folders: loc, loctext, locfacefx. They all should already have the english files en.sb and en.loc, but if they don't, download the english voice over (which shouldn't be necessary anyway). Then on the loctext folder, move both the br.sb and br.loc files to a backup folder, then rename the en.sb and en.loc to br.sb and br.loc. Make a backup of the en.sb and en.loc files just in case. Then, using an editor such as notepad++ (windows notepad won't work because it will mess up the files when it saves them), replace all occurrences of "/en/" to "/br/" on both files. 

    And that's it. You get back to the original version of the game.

    Thanks everyone who was concerned. If anyone tries this and it doesn't work, let me know and I can explain better if needed.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Just realized using notepad was not a good idea. Even if I keep the original working Portuguese file, just opening it and saving it will make the game get stuck on the loading screen. So maybe the Russian guy solution could work if I use a decent editor. Too bad I only backed up the br file, not the en file, so I will have to download it all over again a third time (maybe repair works). Then I can try it and see if it works, which I hope it will.

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Anonymous
8 years ago

Unbelievable. Doing that actually works. What you need to do, if you have the "portuguese" version is the following:

Go to the data/win32/ folder and check the following folders: loc, loctext, locfacefx. They all should already have the english files en.sb and en.loc, but if they don't, download the english voice over (which shouldn't be necessary anyway). Then on the loctext folder, move both the br.sb and br.loc files to a backup folder, then rename the en.sb and en.loc to br.sb and br.loc. Make a backup of the en.sb and en.loc files just in case. Then, using an editor such as notepad++ (windows notepad won't work because it will mess up the files when it saves them), replace all occurrences of "/en/" to "/br/" on both files. 

And that's it. You get back to the original version of the game.

Thanks everyone who was concerned. If anyone tries this and it doesn't work, let me know and I can explain better if needed.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Well, apart from random parts of the game that showed up in Portuguese, it works fine until you get to DLC content (probably all the random Portuguese parts are related to DLC). 

    When going into any DLC content you are cursed again with that awful translated version of the game with no way out. I would gladly pay 10$ for a "change your language" DLC. Because I will probably spend 500$ worth of my time before I fix this language issue or I just realize it's impossible.

    Actually, if I had the option to pay 100$ to redeem myself from the sin of living outside the US and get the untranslated version to work with my DLC's I would gladly pay it.

    Don't know when or if I will start trying to figure out how to fix my game so I can play the DLC content I bought (too many headaches from other sources going on already), but if anyone already has experience with changing the language and has successfully done a full unlock into English, I will happily hear what you have to say.

    Btw, contacting customer support again was fruitless.

    • Eledhal's avatar
      Eledhal
      8 years ago

      Hello I have the same problem.

      Tried renaming and editing on Notepad++, but I must have done something wrong, because now my game runs in english but there are no voices and voice animations

      • EA_Darko's avatar
        EA_Darko
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        5 years ago

        Great to hear that you got it sorted @WesleyCouto.


        Darko 

    • etinin1's avatar
      etinin1
      5 years ago

      I am highly disappointed by this stupid region lock. Just because I live in Brazil doesn't mean I want to put with the disgusting second-rate translation to Portuguese. I have always played everything in English since I was a kid and I certainly did not subscribe to EA Play so they could choose the language of my games based on questionable 'region locks'.

      To those still with issues, I'd like to point out that the original method for replacing the localized files also works for the DLCs. Just go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age Inquisition\Update\(dlcname)\Data\Win32\loctext\(dlcname)\", rename to en.sb and en.toc files to the desired language (i.e. br.sb and br.toc), and then replace the strings using any software which will not mess up the encoding (I like using HxD, a free hex editor). Make sure to replace /en with /[desired language code] (i.e. replace /en with /br). Replacing /en/ with /[desired language code]/ will not suffice and may get you stuck in the loading screen. Any DLC which doesn't have the loctext folder with the matching localized files can be safely ignored, since it should not alter the in-game text.

      • Alex_KeysKeeper's avatar
        Alex_KeysKeeper
        5 years ago
        Yeah guys that /en notion - without trailing "/" is important
        And +1 to frustration with region locks. Now like in old good times we have to reverse engeneer games to make them just work, like, its written in description English is supported but who ever said it would work out of the box? lol
        They said the decisions made in Origins and DA2 would have impact on Inquisition, yeah, but they forgot to make a simple tool to import them from saves, cloud or not. Had to spend two days and familiarize myself with Toolset, MS SQL, GFF editors, Plot Flags scripts, python utils mods and what not just to read all the statuses from my 6 years old saves to recreate them in Dragon Age Keep.. but that's how much I wanted to continue story in the exact world I made decisions in..

        BioWare devs make wonderful, captivating games, as always. Its just... different people do everything possible to botch it.
  • flpgamer3d's avatar
    flpgamer3d
    7 years ago

    Thanks ABC6022A5100401 you helped me a lot with this tip, after so many different attempts only this really helped me.

  • djcan999's avatar
    djcan999
    5 years ago

    olá amigo, sou brasileiro e estou com dificuldade para colocar o game em br, quando substituo os arquivos en por br e vou abrir o jogo pela origin, aparece um erro onde o game não consegue encontra o idioma. Baixei o Notepad++, porém, ao substituir da o erro. Me ajuda por favor.

    • EA_Darko's avatar
      EA_Darko
      Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
      5 years ago

      Hey @djcan999 when posting on the English AHQ forums we would ask that you do so in English.


      Darko

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