German to English Conversion

[Snowblind]

Hi all, I'm new here and hope to give you all some good stories if I can get my game working properly!

I bought Medieval 2 in Germany a week back on a trip out there (couldn't resist for a fiver) and assumed that I would be given the option to install in English like most other games.

I wasn't however and now I'm stuck with a German game .

Does anyone know how to convert it to English?

[pevergreen]

From memory (Last topic i read on this exact question would have been early last year):

You can't. From there, memory is hazy in either:

It's locked into German, you can't get it into english
or
You can replace some files to turn everything into English.

Sorry I cant be of more help

[I of the Storm]

The textfiles are easily converted provided you have the english files somewhere at hand. Just install a mod and it will be in english (the mod, not the vanilla game).

However, converting/replacing the sound files into English is either impossible or very very complicated. I myself had the UK version before and now, after buying the Gold Edition, I am stuck with the german localization, which is simply disgusting and full of errors. I wish I could do something about that and get back the english audio files.

[FactionHeir]

Xenophonia does something about the sounds but it requires to have the English audio in the first place.

Other than that, to make your game German I imagine you would just need to replace your main pack files with English ones (exe file should be the same) and the audio dat/idx of course.

[Snowblind]

Thanks for the replies guys. I must say this seems like a really nice community. This is the first forum I have posted on about this problem where people have actually bothered to reply to me...

Does anyone know of anywhere I could get the English files?

I'll probably just go into town at some point and pick it up from Gamestation or GAME or something cheaply.

It is quite annoying though.

[FactionHeir]

Not to my knowledge. Though you could certainly ask for them to be uploaded (they are several gigs in size though)