How to play CZ/GER version completely in English

[sickboy 13]

Can I point out no one forced anyone to go out and buy the unfinished czech version, even after its publically announced it wasn't and would need patching people were/are still clamouring over each other to get a copy. Why? Especially when reading all the negative feedback so far. Patience is a virtue. Most of us have spent the last 5 years playing OFP. What is another 2 months?

Sickboy, please don't think i'm aiming this at you. At least you're doing something constructive about the situation, rather than simply whining.

I don't take this personally, but do put some questions what this statement has to do with my Czech to English translation project Instead, this belonged more in the "To the people who have got ArmA, how is it thread" if you ask me, since there it's 99% whining, I simply hope that your post isn't going to trigger unwanted replies, which are 99,99999999% off-topic

[kronzky 5]

Caution: any modification of of any .pbo files supplied with the game can result in anti-cheat detection triggering in. There are probably no servers testing for this yet, but as there will be more users and more servers running, and we will suppky a documentation for this, you may start getting problems with this.

I understand that third-party translations, as they are out now, are not being supported.

But what about once BIS' official English version has come out? Would there still be online-authentication issues with Czech versions that have been converted to English (using official PBOs)?

[sickboy 13]

Caution: any modification of of any .pbo files supplied with the game can result in anti-cheat detection triggering in. There are probably no servers testing for this yet, but as there will be more users and more servers running, and we will suppky a documentation for this, you may start getting problems with this.

I understand that third-party translations, as they are out now, are not being supported.

But what about once BIS' official English version has come out? Would there still be online-authentication issues with Czech versions that have been converted to English (using official PBOs)?

Nearly every single file in all the releases are the same. So this shouldn't be a problem, it merely seems that either the cdkey, or maybe the exe file or 1 of the bin/pbo files makes the choice for which language needs to be picked...

Only singleplayer campaign and mission files are different between the releases and these will  ofcoarse not be checked for differences in an anti cheat

Ofcoarse the other releases might have further developped versions of the game, But I guess it's logical to assume that if that's the case, there will be patches out aswell...

[EiZei 0]

Am I doing something wrong or are'nt character class names (soldier, at soldier etc.) supposed to show up in the editor? Is there a way to get them in czech at least?

[sickboy 13]

Am I doing something wrong or are'nt character class names (soldier, at soldier etc.) supposed to show up in the editor? Is there a way to get them in czech at least?

Sounds like ur doing something wrong m8

I got all classnames in the editor. Did you edit the bin.pbo AND the languages.pbo, and replaced all instances?

[icebreakr 3157]

EiZei: don't forget to put bin.pbo into Dta folder, not Addons. Language.pbo goes into Addon. Everything works great that way.

[EiZei 0]

I did that already.

Guess ill just re-install the damn thing just to make sure.

EDIT: That made it work, joy is me.

[sickboy 13]

I did that already.

Guess ill just re-install the damn thing just to make sure.

EDIT: That made it work, joy is me.  

Great news m8, im happy it worked

[sickboy 13]

Updated the first post with an Automated patch to convert Czech version of ArmA into English.

This excludes the SP Mission/Campaign Briefings etc... When they are finished and if it isn't against Copyright... we will try to release them in the same way! Have fun!

ps. The patch of coarse only works if you still have the original bin.pbo and language.pbo ...  if you edited them or replaced them by others, get the originals from your dvd and overwrite the ones in your installation folder, then run the patcher.

[icebreakr 3157]

Sickboy: you're DA MAN!

[Bunkers 0]

Sickboy: you're DA MAN!

X2. Sickboy for President

[T J 0]

yeah, super work.

This made me giggle though, from the .RPT (bug list) file

Quote[/b] ]Unsupported language Czech in stringtable

[Blazen 0]

I wouldn't think adding to the missions would be against copy rights. After all the game is made to be edited in almost every way. However keep us informed, I can safely speak for most of us here in the United States and say that we anxiously await the traslated strings!

[sickboy 13]

Thanks for the kind words m8s! Gladly done!

More to come, primed for Sunday Evening CET.

[icebreakr 3157]

Here's a mirror (Sickboy,tnx):

http://www.vojak.si/files/download.php?file=55 (118KB)

[Yarrow 0]

Sickboy, your a sick sick boy!:P

You rule!! And so does your team!! Keep it up!

[sickboy 13]

Here's a mirror (Sickboy,tnx):

http://www.vojak.si/files/download.php?file=55 (118KB)

Thanks for the mirror m8!

All translations except 1 are finished, the last one will probably be finished by the end of tomorrow.

There is a slight possiblity I have to work tomorrow which could make the release pretty late or even postponed till monday, so please don't hate me if that happens

[chipper 0]

Yo does this translate missions?

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Nah, ole sickboy's still working on that one.

[Timblesink 0]

Sickboy for president? Nah. Sickboy for GOD!

[aussie dave 0]

can be downloaded from here aswell:

XDF Data Centre

[Rambo-16AAB 0]

I have a German copy coming. Will this work on that version too ?

[EiZei 0]

I have a German copy coming. Will this work on that version too ?

Unless they specifically removed the english phrases it should, and even in that case you could potentially use the ones from the czech version.

[sickboy 13]

I have a German copy coming. Will this work on that version too ?

No, it will not work on the German Version, I will release new patches when it comes out!

The bin.pbo and language.pbo will be succesfully patched, if they are not updated since the czech release, but it will still display german... because the patcher exchanges "Czech" with "English", so there will nothing change in the german release.

(And for when v0.2 comes out) The campaign and mission pbo files included in the german release are different from the czech release, as they contain german texts and not czech texts, so the patcher will fail to patch those files.

Again, you can expect a german patcher when my german release arrives from the shops

[GermanPower 0]

thx.. works great

edit:

WORKS not!! ^^ just the menu is translated.. then I started the campaign and the text of the reporter is in czech and the text in the car is czech.. -.-