Voices and subtitles

[Hawkorn]

I can't believe it. I was excited to finally be able to play Mass Effect 1 and 2 with english voices and french subtitles but no.. apparently even in 2021 it's still hard to let the players choose what language they want to hear and read separately. That's a letdown Bioware.

[KryZee]

Originally posted by Clementine:

Originally posted by KryZee:

What about BIOEngine.ini, probably there is something there we can change?

The problem is that it doesn't display the path which file it is :C In BIOEngine.ini you can only change graphic options and keybindings. Changing the Language=INT-- only changes the launcher to your language but not the subtitles

I know,I tried and it also reverted it to INT after i launched the game...

[ADVAN]

Originally posted by Clementine:

Originally posted by KryZee:

I see, thanks for the help! But there should be a way to fix it right?

Yes, but I'm not sure, you may need an internal file editor. In 2 and 3 you have game translations in single files. In 1 it is in one concatenated file

FFS... Russian voiceover is so ridiculously bad in ME1, i`ve stopped playing like 10 minutes in (and i`m not talking about mistakes in subtitles but whatever). Really hoping someone finds a solution to this soon. That will be my first playthrough, don`t want to ruin it.

[Mister Walrus]

What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame. You guys can't even imagine how miscast russian voices are.

[KryZee]

At least Italian dub is good, like really good, but I still prefer to play the game in its original language, to appreciate all shades of the original opera. Still it's not acceptable to miss this feature in 2021.

[Kierkenstein]

I really hope it will be modded or patched fast. I'd prefer the latter because it would be more fair for console users.

[Miczelov]

I'm also polish player...
And I'll be honest - I loved me1 translation for possibility to choose between full English, full Polish, and English dub with polish subtitles (and ofc I played with last one)

Me2 was huge disappointment for me because of full Polish only, and new voice actors... Which also made problems with dlcs - since the last ones were not translated, so it made them incompatible with polish version of base game. So I've made only thing I could think off, and backupped polish text files, and sent request to EA Origin support to change version to English. Then after reinstallation, just renamed all backupped files to _int, and overwritten English ones. And what about dlcs? Thanks to changing game language, I could easily install them, bit the were full English... At first I've played them just like that, bit some times lated found out that community made unofficial translations.
Pretty similar thing I've made with Crysis 3, but since I couldn't find where text files were stored to made trick with backup of polish ones, I've just decides to play full English.

Me3 was also petfect for me - after playing first two games with Mark Meer as Shepard voice it was very natural for me, so English dub + polish subs was the best way to translate this game.

And here we are now - many years later EA did with me 1 and 2 remasters, same thing which they made with me2... For me it's huge "NO", so I've made my final decision to not buy remaster, but instead just stay with old trilogy + ALOT texture mods + some EGM and others... Funny thing - even mods mostly have translated texts...

[mark00s]

Originally posted by ks0908 (not weeb):

ah yes
time for people to start getting angry for bioware not putting additional effort for feature that not only was NOT promised in any way shape or form but also wouldnt be used by most people

Idk about Russian, but Polish Steam page says clearly that in Polish there are only interface and subtitles. Sadly, the voice-over is in Polish too (at least in ME1) and you can't change it without changing subtitles. It's clear misrepresentation.

[Pseudohalogen]

All text is stored in Startup_<LANG>.pcc. Only the other language files need to be removed or renamed. Here is an exampe Batch for English voice and German subtitles. Put this in your Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\BioGame folder and start the *.bat.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oWfGWyQRIeTZYducf5kVJ4gRWObvL2jm/view?usp=sharing

[Тигра]

Originally posted by Mister Walrus:

What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame. You guys can't even imagine how miscast russian voices are.

and the subtitles too... >_<

[KilkaSairo]

Originally posted by Pseudohalogen:

All text is stored in Startup_<LANG>.pcc. Only the other language files need to be removed or renamed. Here is an exampe Batch for English voice and German subtitles. Put this in your Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\BioGame folder and start the *.bat.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oWfGWyQRIeTZYducf5kVJ4gRWObvL2jm/view?usp=sharing

Tried to rename files for Russian language, but that didn't work. Crashed after creation menu. And before that had a Russian voice

[KilkaSairo]

Okay, just renamed Startup_INT to Startup_RA and changed language to english and it worked!

UPD: Nope, subs still english, except menu and names

[chriscross]

Originally posted by Pseudohalogen:

All text is stored in Startup_<LANG>.pcc. Only the other language files need to be removed or renamed. Here is an exampe Batch for English voice and German subtitles. Put this in your Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\BioGame folder and start the *.bat.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oWfGWyQRIeTZYducf5kVJ4gRWObvL2jm/view?usp=sharing

Started the .bat but my game is still in full voice german. Do i need to change something ingame? Playing with origin.

[Laorne]

Originally posted by KilkaSairo:

Okay, just renamed Startup_INT to Startup_RA and changed language to english and it worked!

UPD: Nope, subs still english, except menu and names

Yep same here. I did the renamed thing ( with FR instead of RA ), and menu and names are in french, voices in English but subtitles are in English too.
That's mean that subtitles text are store in another file than Startup_<LANG>.pcc right ?

[mark00s]

Originally posted by Laorne:

Yep same here. I did the renamed thing ( with FR instead of RA ), and menu and names are in french, voices in English but subtitles are in English too.
That's mean that subtitles text are store in another file than Startup_<LANG>.pcc right ?

Yes, indeed. Same result here, but with PLPC.

[KilkaSairo]

Originally posted by Laorne:

Originally posted by KilkaSairo:

Okay, just renamed Startup_INT to Startup_RA and changed language to english and it worked!

UPD: Nope, subs still english, except menu and names

Yep same here. I did the renamed thing ( with FR instead of RA ), and menu and names are in french, voices in English but subtitles are in English too.
That's mean that subtitles text are store in another file than Startup_<LANG>.pcc right ?

What files lies in BioGame\Content\Packages\ISACT folder I wonder