French patched variant for sword1

[Guy0me]

The game in 'Broken Sword 1, Shadow of the Templars (USA) (T-Fr v1.02) (CD Windows)' seems to be an unknown game variant.

This is a french patched translation for this game.(keep the english language but add the french subtitles)

Matched game IDs for the sword1 engine: sword1-win-gb

{"scripts.clu", 0, "72b10193714e8c6e4daca51791c0db0c", 1088292},
{"smackshi/intro.smk", 0, "d82a7869ace8fcecaa519c04c4bfc483", 13233268},
{"swordres.rif", 0, "5463362dc77b6efc36e46ac84998bd2f", 59788},
{"text.clu", 0, "76f93f5feecc8915435105478f3c6615", 2705446},

[lotharsm]

Can you please clarify what was patched in this version? Is this an official release?

[Guy0me]

Yes this is an official release in english with a french patch apply on it (it was working before and after a few update of scummvm, the game is not working anymore.)
The game keep the language in english for the voices but have the french subtitles also.

[Guy0me]

Hello, can you please validate this version? Thank you!
I've never had a problem getting it to work before, and I really enjoy playing this game in English with French subtitles.

[AndywinXp]

Hi! In order to validate this version I would need the patch by its own, so I can replicate the situation myself.

[Guy0me]

​https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZI8x0ZEMawe4Sxdib8SCanKsBgAmS9fzPX

[AndywinXp]

Hey, just to double check: is it possible that you have to move scripts.clu, swordres.rif and text.clu from the patch to the CLUSTERS directory? Please try that and let me know if it works.

[Guy0me]

The game in 'Broken Sword 1, Shadow of the Templars (USA) (T-Fr v1.02) (CD Windows)' seems to be an unknown game variant.

Please report the following data to the ScummVM team at https://bugs.scummvm.org/ along with the name of the game you tried to add and its version, language, etc.:

Matched game IDs for the sword1 engine: sword1-demo-win

{"clusters/scripts.clu", 0, "72b10193714e8c6e4daca51791c0db0c", 1088292},
{"clusters/swordres.rif", 0, "5463362dc77b6efc36e46ac84998bd2f", 59788},
{"clusters/text.clu", 0, "76f93f5feecc8915435105478f3c6615", 2705446},
{"smackshi/intro.smk", 0, "d82a7869ace8fcecaa519c04c4bfc483", 13233268},

[Guy0me]

I move them in the clusters directory as you asked but it ain't working.

[AndywinXp]

Okay, I might have a solution for you. Since keeping the original english dub and having a different language in the subtitles is something that we had in the past but we lost some time ago, I started reimplementing it.

If I start adding subtitles language conversions left and right, the detection system will become messy real quick. But there's a better solution and it requires you to only put the *.txt files in the main game folder (which will translate the text of the cutscenes).

In tomorrows' daily build do this:

• Add the original ENGLISH UNPATCHED version of the game to ScummVM
• Close ScummVM
• Put the *.txt files I provided in the zip (that's all you need!) in the game main folder
• Find your scummvm.ini configuration file (if you are on Windows it's in %appdata%/ScummVM)
• Open it and find the configuration entry for Broken Sword 1 (it should be named something like [sword1-win-gb] or similar)
• Insert, below, the following string: subtitles_language_override=fr
• Save it
• Open ScummVM, and play the game: it should now be in french.

I just implemented this feature so I haven't got a GUI option for it yet, but I'm working on it, I just wanted to give you this solution asap.

Let me know how it goes.

[Guy0me]

Hello, it works ! thanks for the help, you can close this issue.

[AndywinXp]

Thanks for confirming!

[AndywinXp]

Heyhey, a quick update. Starting from tomorrow's daily build you will be able to select the language from the Game options before starting up the game! :-D