Hello Community,

i just want to know if it is possible to change the ingame language to German or other languages?

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This isn't true.
I have a german version of Pharaoh somewhere in my house.
Also if you look inside the game folder, you will see several txt files. Some containing ingame Strings. In the folder Audio/Voice/Walker you will see files containing the walker messages.

I guess you can get these files from a source you have to think of yourself and replace the files in the folder. Just take care not to replace any executable or Pharaoh may start to ask for a disk. I would consider this as fully legal as you bought the game. But in your jurisdiction it may be not.

Maybe I will try this myself the next few days if I stumble across my old disk and it still works.

Hello !

I think that change the language is very easy as far as you have the correponding files. Let me explain what I did yesterday.

Fan of Ceasar III, I bought Pharaoh in french when it came out twelve years ago and my young daughter felt in love with it too. At these old times we were in Windows 98. Later Cleopatra get out, but after the 50 € of Pharaoh, I admit that I did download this extension with the related patch to make it works. Later the whole stuff was transfered on Windows XP, still working. Today my daughter have her own PC, we're both under Windows 7 and I discovered that the Cleopatra extension and its patch were not working any more on all configurations. Since then I succeded to have it working on my PC, but not on the one of my daughter and she was very deceived because she was still playing with Cleopatra from time to time... and these times seemed over.

So two days ago I bought the whole stuff (again for Pharaoh) for my daughter on GOG and it works fine on my PC... but that is the english version, which I stupidly did not notice when I bought it on GOG. So what did I do ? I installed my old official french Pharaoh in another directoty than Pharaoh Gold, installed the Cleopatra extension without the magic illegal patch... and simply put the pharaoh.exe file from Pharaoh Gold at the place of the one coming from the old french Cleopatra... and it works ! I have now a fully french LEGAL Pharaoh Gold !

What I think is that if to replace pharaoh.exe with the one from GOG in a 2000 french release is sufficent to obtain a full french Cleopatra working game, it must be possible to pack all the files that are specific to the french release and deliver them with GOG's Pharaoh Gold in order to obtain a fully french Pharaoh Gold. When I will have time, I will do the trial in order to be sure (replace english files by french files into Pharaoh Gold installation).

And so the final question is for GOG : do you have the rights to release a french version of Pharaoh Gold ? If yes, I think that to pack it will be very easy. And as a consequence, it should be the same for a german version (but I don't have the files).

Sorry for this long post, hope it will be useful to somebody else.

I have the swedish version of both Pharaoh and Cleopatra. I don't have the game were I'm at right now, but I'll try to see if I can change the language into swedish any time soon.
I do know for sure that the speech can be easily changed as it's all .mp3 and .wav files. So that can be replaced just as is.
But there's still the UI. Hopefully, we just need to replace the "Pharaoh_Text.eng" file.


I'll come back when I've fetched the swedish version so you'll know when I'll start fiddling with the game.

I must have been tired when I wrote my earlier post. Didn't notice that daneel53 allready had done it. But any way, I fixed it in the other way he mentions but didn't try. I moved most of the swedish files into the english version's directory.
But yeah, the easiest way is propably just moving the english .exe:)

Though, there is one slight problem. It is fully playable, but it might be a bit of an annoyens. Special characters like å, ä and ö are raised, they are floating in the air.


Any mod or admin that knows if there is any more language specific versions of Pharaoh on the way to gog?

Versuch mal folgendes umd Pharao + Cleopatra von gog vom englischen ins deutsche zu übersetzen:

https://mega.co.nz/#!e94DnIAI!IYt5oVwPc7xe3zgzWHwS_EHAfpIi4faAa9Vmuz9iAhY

V1 - 17.04.2013: Erste Version + WideScreen Dateien

Installation:
Die Dateien aus dem Pharao + Cleopatra gog Version Installationverzeichniss mit denen aus der ZIP überschreiben.

Ich hoffe es funktioniert.

Hat das geklappt? Würde mir dann nämlich hier auch das Spiel kaufen- würde es gerne auf Deutsch spielen.

Bei mir hat es funktioniert. Es ist natürlich keine Garantie, dass es bei dir auch funktioniert...

Hat super geklappt. Vielen, vielen Dank!!
Hast du auch zufälligerweise so eine Datei für Herscher des Olymp Zeus + Poseidon?

Auch bei mir funktionieren die deutschen Dateien wunderbar bei der GOG-Version. Bei der CD Version von Cleopatra hat der Widescreen-Patch z.B. nicht funktioniert.

das hat alles super geklappt mit der Übersetzung und Auflösung

DAnke :D

Hello !
I have an original of this game in french, but it crashes with Windows 7.
So I bought the game on Gog.
Then I replaced the files in english by their equivalents in french.
It's all ok, but the shortcuts...
Does anyone know where I can define them manually ?

Hat zufällig nochmal jemand die Dateien für deutschen Text? Der Link weiter oben funktioniert nicht mehr. :(