Game Help:Change Game Language

Problem

• Sim names have changed after installing a new expansion or stuff pack
• You would like to change the language the game is in

Solution

Change the language!

As well as practical purposes (e.g. you bought the game abroad) this is a neat party trick as you can translate the game into a language you don't understand and then you won't know what you're telling your Sim to do.. could be fun :)

How to Change the Game Language

Step 1

Go to the Start Menu and Run, and type in regedit:

Step 2

In the Registry Editor window, click the + arrows next to each of the following:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• SOFTWARE
• EA GAMES
• The Sims 2 (or whatever EP you've got installed)
• 1.0

and you'll see something like this:

On the right hand side you'll probably see four things. We only need to worry about two of them: Language and Language name.

Step 3

First double click on Language. That will bring up the following:

• 1. American English
• 2. French
• 3. German
• 4. Italian
• 5. Spanish
• 6. Swedish
• 7. Finnish
• 8. Dutch
• 9. Danish
• 10. None
• 11. Simplified Chinese
• 12. Traditional Chinese
• 13. British English
• 14. Polish
• 15. Thai
• 16. Norwegian
• 17. Portuguese

After changing the Language, double click on the LanguageName and change the text to whichever language you chose. It doesn't actually makes a difference to the game, but it's best to keep everything in sync.

That's it. Every part of the game is now whatever language you chose.

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Contributor Credits

Thanks go to daysies for the original article.