Full Pipe - German-to-English patch

This weird Russian adventure game was first released in 2003 and like many others it never saw a proper English retail release. There was an English digital release though, but it's not available any more for reasons unknown to me! On the other hand, the German retail version is still available for purchase on the German Amazon store.

This small patch converts the German retail release of the game to the English one. Although, since the game doesn't contain a single line of dialogue only the main menu needed translation.

To install the patch simply unpack the archive and overwrite the files as necessary.

You can download the patch here.

Enjoy!

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel - German-to-English patch

This small patch will convert the German retail release of the game [Das Geheimnis des Berghotels] to the full English version which was unfortunately only released as a digital download. Although the patch is very small in size, it will add the official English voice-over. In my opinion the English voices are bad. They could actually ruin the game for you. So I chose not to overwrite the original German voices, which are excellent, in order to give you the option to switch between them.

The game can still be found in the German Amazon on-line store.

To install the patch, just unpack the archive to the game directory, run convert.bat and select a[all] when asked to overwrite the files.

You can download the patch here.

Mozart - The Conspirators Of Prague - FULL ENGLISH !!!

The following patches convert the French and Dutch localized versions of the game to the original official, albeit unreleased, FULL ENGLISH version. That means the game now has English dialogue and English subtitles, text, menu etc. No changes or corrections were made whatsoever, although it's obvious from the many mistakes that it hasn't passed any final quality assurance tests, probably because it wasn't going to be released. So yes, the subtitles have a couple spelling and grammatical errors but they never distract or confuse. It seems that an English version of the game was actually made during the production of the game and each localized version either written over it or disabled the English text/audio.

The patches are different from each other and only work on their respective versions. I bought my Dutch version of the game [Mozart - De samenzweerders van Praag] from Mensys.nl since it was the only shop I could find that would ship to my country, accept paypal and had an English site. The French version [Mozart: Le Dernier Secret] can be found at the French Amazon store.

To install the patch for the Dutch version simply unpack the archive to the game directory and overwrite the files as necessary.

To install the patch for the French version, first unpack the archive to the game directory (overwriting the files as necessary) and then run the "mozart patch.exe". When it asks for a directory, select again the game directory. Please be patient. This procedure can take up to 10 minutes!

The new executables, in both pacthes, are also Starforce-free! Just make sure you never run the original exe and install the patch immediately after installing the game, if you want to avoid installing Starforce on your machine.

You can download the patch for the French version here

And the patch for the Dutch version here.

I also wrote an English walkthrough which you can find here.

Enjoy!

Hollywood Monsters in English !!! - Part 2

FX Interactive still sells Hollywood Monsters in their online store and for a couple more days it's FREE !!!!

You can get it here: FX Store

For the digital download version we released a new English patch which is based on the digital version and doesn't ask for a CD.

You can download this patch here.

Hollywood Monsters in English !!!

Hollywood Monsters was released by Pendulo Studios in 1997 and is one of the funniest adventures ever made. Unfortunately it was never released in English. Last year Pendulo Studios decided to release a similar adventure game called The Next Big Thing. It was supposed to be more of a reimagining of Hollywood Monsters than a sequel or a remake. They kept some themes and some puzzles but the end result was not funny enough for me. So I thought it was the perfect time to translate the original game and let the world decide for itself.

This is an unofficial translation made by fans, well... by me actually with the help of my friend A.P.SlasH. I also think I have to mention that the game is NOT machine translated.

You can download below the patch for the Spanish version released by FX Interactive. The game works perfectly in WinXP and Vista. Keep in mind that's an old game that's running in 640x480 resolution.

Download the patch here.

To install the patch, simply unpack the archive and overwrite the files in the directory which you installed the game. Keep in mind that you will need the original CD in the drive in order to play the game. Also do not overwrite our exe with the no-cd exe.

I also wrote a walkthrough in English which you can download here.

Mortadelo & Filemon - Book 5 - The Grand Soiree

I really love these comics and those characters. The thing is they were never officially translated into English and the translations in my mother language were just awful. So I decided to give it a try.

Here is an unofficial translation of Book 5. The original title is Mortadelo y Filemon - El Gran Sarao.

You can download it here.

Kaptain Brawe - Voice Over Patch

I hate the digital distribution of games. I hate it even more than I hate piracy. I've never bought a digital copy on-line and I think I'll never will. But there are so many great games nowadays only released as digital downloads. One of them is Kaptain Brawe by Cateia Games. I waited for a retail release, sent a couple of emails asking for release date and when I lost all hope I just removed it from my to-buy list and forgot about it.

But a couple of months ago while browsing the German amazon.de site for any great adventures I might have missed I saw that a retail version of the game was listed. Granted it had double the price of the digital copy but to me that meant that I can finally buy it.

I really thought that the game would be in English. I knew that it didn't have voice over and that it had a very small size so I thought that there would be no reason to remove the English text. But I was wrong. The game was completely localized BUT, on the other hand, the German version had a full voice over, and a great one!

So I thought that the best way to play this adventure game would be with the German voice over the original English text and with that in mind I created a small patch. But it's not really a patch. You don't have to execute anything. You just replace some files from the patch on the original installed directory of the German version. So, yes, this is a patch that replaces the German text in the German version with the original English text. And when I say text I mean all text, including any writing that is part of the background pictures.

For the background pictures, I used the original files from the English version. But for the text I had to create new ones because the game engine uses a different line for every character, so while in the English there was only one line saying for example “This is a cup”, in the German there 2-3 lines with different timeout depending on the voice over of the character.

I used the text delay from the German version in most occasions. In German language, in general, you use many more words which themselves usually have many more letters than the English ones and if you take into consideration the fact that the German translator took some great liberties with the translation you can understand why the timings are not 100% perfect. But it's way better than the super-slow text in the original English version.

You can buy the German retail release on the German Amazon online store.

So this is the patch. Download and enjoy.