The Amazing spider man 2 language change

[Arachnid.]

My friend bought it for me but it's the russian version, how do I make sure its in english, can somebody who owns the game please share the file for english language with me :D

[Aemony]

Change language through the launcher? http://i.imgur.com/gWC7tbW.png

It seems to include all languages for me:
English (US)
English (UK)
French (CA)
French (FR)
Italian
German
Spanish (SP)
Russian

[Arachnid.]

Originally posted by Aemony:

Change language through the launcher? http://i.imgur.com/gWC7tbW.png

It seems to include all languages for me:
English (US)
English (UK)
French (CA)
French (FR)
Italian
German
Spanish (SP)
Russian

Can you send me thr english files please :)

[Arachnid.]

For me it's not there in the launcher

[Aemony]

The game doesn't seem to have any localization files at all. The only ones I can find is de/es/fr/it and those are only for the launcher itself.

What you might be able to do is check what values the Language registry entry supports.

1. Run regedit through Windows' start menu.

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Activision\The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (TM)\Install

3. Check the value of Language. On my end it have these different decimal values:

2 - English (UK)
3 - English (US)
4 - French (CA)
5 - French (FR)
6 - German
7 - Italian
10 - Russian
11 - Spanish (SP)

If the value on your end is 10 you might be able to change it to English by setting it to either 2 or 3.

Edit: It's possible that the launcher resets the value when it launches. Be sure to change the value when the launcher is already running.

[Arachnid.]

Oh my god, I gotta try that! You'll here of me tomorrow man :D

And how about ingame voice btw. that's russian aswell, no fix for that is there?

[Aemony]

If the above setting works, then those should change as well. On my copy all of the localization stuff seems stuffed into the actual game itself, so it might be the same on your end.

Otherwise they've basically created a whole separate copy of the game just for the Russian region (despite mine containing those files as well) with no other localization files.

[The Dude]

its not working 4 me, is there eny way you can screenshot what u have done?

[Aemony]

Originally posted by the dude:

its not working 4 me, is there eny way you can screenshot what u have done?

You might want to test this out: https://github.com/Idearum/Skip-ASM2Launcher

It's a custom launcher that skips the embedded launcher of the game, if that one is responsible for setting the incorrect language. You also need to combine it with the appropriate language registry key here: https://github.com/Idearum/Skip-ASM2Launcher/tree/master/Settings/1.%20Language

I am not certain if this will solve it, as I do not own one of those affected copies. It might, or it might not.

[The Dude]

thanks for trying but it wont work on my copy. is there any other way?

[Aemony]

Originally posted by the dude:

it keeps reseting the value, thanks for trying though. is there anyway of stopping the program from resetting the value?

It depends on how the software actually makes use of the registry key. For example, does it just reset it to the other language without actually using it? Or does it first reset it and then re-read it again later to configure the language to whatever the registry key is?

Neither of us knows right now, but my gut instinct is that it's the former; meaning the value of the registry key doesn't actually matter.

What you can do, however, is in regedit, right-click on the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Activision\The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (TM)\Install" folder, select Permissions. In the window that opens, click on Advanced. Within the new window you should be able to >Add< a new Deny permission for your user (called "principal") for the "Set Value" permission: https://images.aemony.se/sharex/regedit_2018-08-31_17-33-12.png

That should prevent your user account (and subsequently the game) from changing the value of any parameters within the Install registry folder.

There's no telling how this affects the game though, so be aware that you might have to remove that Deny row later if it makes things worse.

[The Dude]

now the value is staying the same but the game is still in russian?

[Aemony]

Originally posted by the dude:

now the value is staying the same but the game is still in russian?

Ya, turns out the game didn't care about that registry value at all...

Nothing we can do basically. I imagine you need another copy of the game completely.

[The Dude]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

[The Dude]

wtf do i get another copy?

[The Dude]

is there any way u could share your launcher exe