Posted December 13, 2015
It appears that the game is using my system's language. I want to set it to english by default. Any ideas?
dicai
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Registered: Mar 2012
From Argentina
mindmymind
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Registered: Dec 2012
From Germany
Posted July 09, 2016
On Windows, what seems to work for the current GOG version of olliolli2.exe (4,624,384 bytes, SHA-1: 1176989D81D0BA66BA47FFF6DD330F61F174743F) is to overwrite the two bytes at offset 0xF466A (originally 0x75, 0x13) with 0x90, 0x90, eliminating a conditional jump after probing an English locale.
fabb
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Registered: Oct 2011
From France
Gydion
Aexander
Registered: Oct 2011
From United States
fabb
New User
Registered: Oct 2011
From France
Posted September 25, 2016
Changed:
000f466a e8 a2 96 13 00 83 c4 0c 85 c0 75 13 a3 5c 5c
To:
000f466a e8 a2 96 13 00 83 c4 0c 85 c0 90 90 a3 5c 5c
See the result in attached image
Did I do something wrong?
Thanks again for your help
Post edited September 25, 2016 by fabb
Gydion
Aexander
Registered: Oct 2011
From United States
Posted September 26, 2016
Looks like the game was updated (different SHA-1). The hack would need to be adjusted to it, no doubt why 0xF466A no longer starts with 75 13, and possibly it's no longer the English locale there.
Post edited September 26, 2016 by Gydion
fabb
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Registered: Oct 2011
From France
Posted September 26, 2016
If anyone has any idea to share...
Thanks anyway
mindmymind
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Registered: Dec 2012
From Germany
Posted September 28, 2016
Hi folks,
as it turns out the hack above relies too much on system specific configurations. It happened to work on my machine but apparently not necessarily for everyone. Thanks for your feedback and apologies for that.
Anyway, I investigated the issue a bit more and found a much better and more direct way to force it to English, I believe. Again it's a hack, this time turning a conditional jump into an unconditional one where there's a switch on the language id.
If you'd like to try it out, please revert the initial hack and make sure you're in fact running the correct version by checking the file hash given in my previous post. Then change the single byte at offset 0x410CB (originally 0x77) to 0xEB and let me know if that worked for you.
as it turns out the hack above relies too much on system specific configurations. It happened to work on my machine but apparently not necessarily for everyone. Thanks for your feedback and apologies for that.
Anyway, I investigated the issue a bit more and found a much better and more direct way to force it to English, I believe. Again it's a hack, this time turning a conditional jump into an unconditional one where there's a switch on the language id.
If you'd like to try it out, please revert the initial hack and make sure you're in fact running the correct version by checking the file hash given in my previous post. Then change the single byte at offset 0x410CB (originally 0x77) to 0xEB and let me know if that worked for you.
fabb
New User
Registered: Oct 2011
From France
Posted October 03, 2016
as it turns out the hack above relies too much on system specific configurations. It happened to work on my machine but apparently not necessarily for everyone. Thanks for your feedback and apologies for that.
Anyway, I investigated the issue a bit more and found a much better and more direct way to force it to English, I believe. Again it's a hack, this time turning a conditional jump into an unconditional one where there's a switch on the language id.
If you'd like to try it out, please revert the initial hack and make sure you're in fact running the correct version by checking the file hash given in my previous post. Then change the single byte at offset 0x410CB (originally 0x77) to 0xEB and let me know if that worked for you.
Now I'm gonna enjoy this game in the language it's meant to be...it feels so stupid in french.
Thanks again for your time and your magical talents (yes, seen from my ignorance, all this byte-changing-offset-hacking is pure magic ^^)