Pie Menu Text Strings Fix (Updated 2009/05/02)
Lord Darcy:
This mod fixes broken pie menus plagued with redundant functions, grammar mistakes and missing translations, especially in non-English languages.
Redundant pie menus are caused by carelessness on translators' part, like spelling errors, nonidentical translations or use of the ellipsis character instead of three dots. Cluttered pie menus are often frustrating, as you have to go through extra levels whenever you want to select other items, like meals or radio channels. So far German looks like the worst offender, redundant pie menus everywhere. Especially foods like Chef Salad, text strings for lunch and dinner all mixed up since base game.
Although this mod fixes mostly non-English languages, it also contains Art Nouveau Bookcase fix, which affects all languages including English.
If you want other languages fixed, let me know the affected objects and your language. I'll include them in the next version.
Note: To fix cluttered Sim menu (like new AL kiss or Vamprocillin-D on Gypsy), I had to make overrides for PersonGlobals text strings. Chances are that it may conflict with other hacks (notably InTeen) which also alter these resources.
Pick only one version, depending on your latest EP.
LdDarcy_PieMenuTextStringsFix.package: If your latest EP is FT, AL or M&GLdDarcy_PieMenuTextStringsFix_BV.package: If your latest EP is BV or earlier (attached in this post due to size limit)
Below is the list of fixes which were rolled into this mod. Remove them all to avoid conflict.
"Read to Youngsters" Fix for Novellas Nouveau Bookcase in FreeTime (LdDarcy_BookcaseArtNouveauFix_FT.package)Pie Menu Fix for Maxis Cheap Telescope in all non-English languages (LdDarcy_PieMenuFix_TelescopeCheap_FT.package)Fridge Menu Fix for GER by K-C
List of objects fixed by this mod:
Astrowonder Telescope (Telescope - Cheap) [All languages except English]Cast Iron Cauldron [German, Danish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Czech & Hungarian] Novellas Nouveau Bookcase (Bookcase - Art Nouveau) [All]Food - Snacks (All) [German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese & Korean]Food - Meals (Chef Salad, Chili Con Carne, Cup O' Ramen, Grandma's Comfort Soup, Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Holiday Roast & Fish Dishes) [All]Food - Desserts (Baked Alaska, Berry Pie, Cheesecake, Crepes Suzette & Santa Cookies) [French, German, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Czech, Hungarian & Brazilian Portuguese]ShoppingRackGlobals [All languages except US English]FoodStandGlobals [German, Dutch, Swedish, Thai, Korean & Czech]Radio Stations [French, German, Finnish, Korean, Czech, Hungarian & Brazilian Portuguese]Learned Behavior - Command - Use Toilet [Polish]Learned Behavior - Non-Command - Pee in Toilet [Polish]PersonGlobals [All] FT Craftables [UK English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean & Brazilian Portuguese]Newspaper [German & Brazilian Portuguese]Phone Call - Landlord - Request Repair [German]BookcaseGlobals [French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Czech & Brazilian Portuguese] Changing Tables [French, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean & Czech]Pleasant Earth Dirt (Garden - Plot) [Danish & Korean]DJ Booths [All languages except US English]The Rock Hammer (Career - Guitar) [All languages except US English]Poised Podium by Performance Arts (Sculpture - Human Statue) [French]Ug-No-More Makeover Station (Chair - Salon) [German]Grandiose Grimoire (Witch - Spellbook) [Danish]PhoneGlobals [German & Korean]BookGlobals [German, Swedish, Norwegian, Korean, Czech & Hungarian]Don't Wake the Llama (Family Board Game) [UK English, French, German & Korean]PetGlobals [Polish & Korean]BedGlobals [French]Phone Call - Party - Apartment Party [Spanish, Traditional Chinese & Czech]ComputerGlobals [Thai & Brazilian Portuguese]OFB Craftables [All languages except Finnish]Phone Call - Magazines - Subscribe [Spanish]Rack - Perfume - Counter [German & Korean]Phone Call - Ownable Lots [Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese & Brazilian Portuguese]Social - Talk - Tell About Hobby [Brazilian Portuguese]Controller - Hobby Instruct [Korean, Czech & Brazilian Portuguese]Computer - Cheap [Simplified Chinese & Brazilian Portuguese]Computer - Expensive [Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean & Brazilian Portuguese]Television - Channel - Movie - Drama - Bubble Bath [Brazilian Portuguese]Television - Channel - Movie - Drama - Pool Table [Brazilian Portuguese]OrchardTreeGlobals [Polish]Violin [traditional Chinese] Food_Globals [traditional Chinese] Potion - Turn Off/On [traditional Chinese] Potion - Vampire Cure [traditional Chinese] Potion - Witch Cure [English, Traditional Chinese & Korean] Potion - Bottle O Nastiness [traditional Chinese] Potion - Bottle O Win [traditional Chinese]
Installation:
Place in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder.
(Or in a subfolder of Downloads folder.)
Changelog:
v1.0: Initial release.
v1.01: Tons of updates. (2008/10/18)
v1.02: Added Salon Chair (German), Human Statue (French) and Spellbook (Danish). (2008/10/19)
v1.03: Added PhoneGlobals (German & Korean). (2008/10/21)
v1.04: Added BookGlobals (German & Korean). (2008/10/24)
v1.05: Fixed Radio Stations in Finnish. (2008/10/25)
v1.06: Added BedGlobals (French). (2008/11/07)
v1.07: Added FT Family Board Game. Removed redundant UK English strings. (2008/11/19)
v1.08: Added PetGlobals (Polish & Korean). (2008/12/04)
v1.09: Updated to ALp2/M&G. Restored BedGlobals. (2008/12/11)
v1.10: Fixed OFB business strings for souvenir racks. (2008/12/23)
v1.11: Added Building Party Phone Call, ComputerGlobals and OFB Craftables. (2009/01/24)
v1.12: Added Phone Call - Magazines - Subscribe, computers, Drama TV channel and OrchardTreeGlobals. (2009/03/27)
v1.13: Fixed several Traditional Chinese strings. (2009/05/02)
Pandaah:
Wow :o It looks like that German translators are really stupid morons.
Havelock:
Quote from: Pandaah on 2008 October 14, 13:50:25
Wow :o It looks like that German translators are really stupid morons.
He is for sure stupid. It looks sometimes they got an Student who translates with Google. We have broken Jobtitles forever, they got never fixed.
A General is a General even in german, but he translated this into "Allgemein" like in general Hospital.
And there are other stupid translations like female jobtitles for males.
In AL he translated Gyro into Hamburger. If he got the fear german Players would not know what Gyros are there was the possibility to translate into Kebab which is known well here.
Pandaah:
Well I know about this, I play the game in German too, but I never thought that there were so many incredible wrong mistakes only in the German game. I thought it was meant to be this way.... The only real annoyance are the college marks that they break with OfB (I know there is a fix for that on MTS2, but it is still annoying)
Something I noticed too is when a dog (cat?) looks at himself in a mirror the little icon on the upper left will show the English text.
Havelock:
Lord Darcy the Switch to.../Jam Band/New Age [German] has included Custom Radiostation also its now alone in a separate switch to... menue.
Is it possible to put it also in the main Radiostation menue ?
Quote from: Pandaah on 2008 October 14, 18:05:57
I thought it was meant to be this way....
Well i have never seen it as meant to be this way. Remember the potty wich had the empty string translated into leer (meaning there is nothing in it). Or the lying Fisherman Fountain who got translated into a crying Fisherman Fountain (i never found out why he was crying while reading the description, until i looked how he is named in english to post a recolor on MTS2.
Quote from: Pandaah on 2008 October 14, 18:05:57
Something I noticed too is when a dog (cat?) looks at himself in a mirror the little icon on the upper left will show the English text.
Yes the Pet reflection string but i dont know if it has a proper text in any language, i think this string is a Placeholder not a icon text.
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