Tanita: Plasticine Dream - French-to-English patch

Tanita is a quirky Russian stop-motion claymation adventure game that was released in 2006. It's very similar to the cult classic The Neverhood. It's also quite hard!

Unfortunately the English version was never released in retail. This patch converts the French retail release [Tanita - Une Aventure Aquatique] to the English one. Actually the game has no dialogue (except for one spoken line!) and no in-game text, so the only thing that needed localizing was the main menu.

The French retail release is DRM-free. Install the game from the original DVD and then apply the patch. You can change the resolution of the game by editing the config.info file. And although the game was made in 4:3 resolution you can even use widescreen resolutions with no problem. The first time you run the game, go to the menu and turn the Sound volume all the way up, else you won't hear any sound effects.

You can download the patch here.

There's a very tough frog shooting arcade mini-game. If you can't pass it, just download this Easy Frogs patch here. It makes the mini-game a lot easier and it doesn't affect your saves.

I also wrote a walkthrough in English since I couldn't find one. You can download it here.

Enjoy!

Alternativa - German-to-English patch

Alternativa is a Czech adventure game released in 2010 by Centauri Production.

This patch converts the German retail release of Alternativa to the official 100% English version of the game. The result is the Steam-free and DRM-free final English version of the game with all the latest patches applied. Simply install the game from the DVD and then apply this patch. No other patches should be applied afterwards because they will overwrite the English files!

Like most of my German games, I bought my copy from the German Amazon online store.

You can download the patch files here: file1 file2  You need both files!

Enjoy!

Tony Tough 2 - A Rake's Progress in English!

Tony Tough in A Rake's Progress, although released in 2006, is actually a prequel of the 1998's Night of Roasted Moths. It's a coming of age story, which while it is filled with hilarious dialogue, it also deals with some dark and mature themes. Like many other great adventure games it was never released in English, probably due to the hundreds of little bugs that plagued it, and unfortunately I'm talking literally! There's nothing game-breaking really, and I've managed to fix all text-subtitle related ones, but be prepared for a couple of crashes to the desktop during your whole playthrough.

This translation patch converts the German retail version of the game (Tony Tough 2 - Der Klugscheisser Kehrt Zurück) to an English one. Except the speech, which remains in German, everything else has been professionally translated into English. No machine translations here. You can find the game on the German Amazon online store.

To install the patch, simply extract the contents of the archive to the game directory and run the executable. Then press Install and agree to overwrite the file. I strongly suggest you install the official patch for the German version first. It doesn't conflict with the translation patch in any way. For your convenience, you can find this file here.

You can download the English translation patch here.

I wrote a walkthrough in English, which also details the various bugs I encountered, and which you can download here.

Enjoy!

Goin' Downtown - German-to-English patch

Goin' Downtown is another brilliant adventure game that never saw a retail release outside Germany. Even the official English version only had the text translated in English, with all the voices remaining in German.

This patch converts the German retail release of the game to the English one. Obviously all voices remain in German. Like always I bought my copy from the German Amazon online store.

To install the patch, unpack the contents of the archive and run the batch file. It will try to change a reference in your registry, so choose YES when asked to add the information to the registry.

I strongly suggest you download and apply the latest official patch that upgrades the game to version 1.1. You can also find that patch here.

You can download the conversion patch here: file1 file2

For Windows 7/8 64bit you'll also this small registry fix.

Enjoy!

A Stitch In Time - German-to-English patch

What Makes You Tick: A Stitch In Time is one of the greatest indie adventure games ever made! Unfortunately, as far as I know, there's only one retail release and that's the German one. Like always, I bought my copy from the German Amazon online store.

So, once again I made a patch that converts the German retail release to the English one. Since neither version had any speech, only the in-game text was converted. What's interesting, is that both versions contain the text for both languages.

To install the patch simply copy the files from the game CD to a directory on your hard drive, then copy the patch to the same directory, unpack the archive and overwrite the files as necessary. It's a Flash game and it doesn't even need installation.

You can download the patch here.

I also corrected some minor text issues that I happened upon in the original English version, and therefore passed in the converted version, and I made a different patch for them, in case somebody didn't want my "corrections". If you you see something like "—" instead of a dash here and there, you may want to download this fix.

You can download this fix here.

Enjoy!

Mortadelo & Filemon - The Crazy Weather Machine in English!

Mortadelo & Filemon and the Crazy-Weather Machine or Mortadelo y Filemon: La Maquina Meteoroloca, as is its Spanish name, is a rather obscure adventure game that was released in 2000 by Zeta Multimedia. It's the second of the series and the only one not developed by Alcachofa Soft. It's not a great adventure game and it's not very long either, but it's FUN! Especially if you have a soft spot for those characters and their crazy antics!

This English translation patch will convert the Spanish retail version of the game to an English one. Obviously the voices will remain in Spanish. I translated everything myself, so no machine translations here. Besides the subtitles, the main menu and interface was localized, the chapter intro animations replaced and subtitles were embedded to the various animations and cutscenes where there was no option for them.

Unfortunately the game doesn't run well (if at all) on newer machines. It can not even be installed correctly in Windows XP unless you set the compatibility mode for setup.exe to Windows 95/98. And even then, it displays various random palette transparency problems. So I would recommend using a virtual machine, like Virtual PC or Qemu, if you actually want to play it.

The other main issue with the game is its rarity. It's a pretty unknown game so it's very difficult to find it nowadays, especially outside Spain. It appears from time to time on ebay, but it needs patience and luck!

To install the patch simply unpack the archive and overwrite the files when asked.

You can download the English translation patch here.

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

Enjoy!

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!