SimcityLocale.dat

[Crossoverone 1]

 Yesterday i found the way to chage the side the cars are driving in my city..I did everything explained in this forum,

the problem is that i have a European version so it has all the languages but not US-English so when i changed 

the language in the registry,the cars switched sides but all the dialogs are messed up with weird symbols etc...

Im just asking if anybody who owns the american version or can find a folder named Englsh and not UKEnglsh in 

his simcity 4 folder,could send me the simcitylocale.dat file from the Englsh folder...thx.

[jim 546 43]

You don't need to get a new file, all you have to do is rename the folder from UKEnglsh to English (normal spelling).

[Tonnakin 2]

I would like to tell you how I've done it.

What I've done, was simply renaming "UKEnglsh" to "Russian", and put the settings with registry editor so, that it would read the Simcitylocale.dat file in that folder.

Why would I want my game to read Russian? In the tutorial is said that the translations for Greek, Czech, Hebrew and Russian weren't complete when the game released. So, the only .dat file I could use, was the english one, so I still had the english language for the game.

Why not simply renaming the "UKEnglsh" folder to "English"? Simply because I didn't like the clock (The hour, followed by am or pm, instead of a digital clock) and the date (Month/Day/Year instead of Day/Month/Year) shown when I renamed the folder to "English".

With the file in the "Russian" folder, I got everyone driving right, aswell as the clock and the date as I prefer it.

You might take a look at the below link "Changing the Language and Driving Side" . Here you could find a few hexadecimal numbers for each language, including the four languages that weren't finished, if you would like to try out what I did.

[Crossoverone 1]

OK the problem was that i did change the filename from UKEnglsh to English.The cars switched sides but the dialogs pop ups were messed up...phrases were missing and some weird symbols were showing instead.So i thought there are 2 different Simcitylocale.dat files one for British version and one for the american.Now i put the game in my other pc (i use winxp instead of vista that i use in the 1st pc) and i did the same changes and it works fine.Its weird i dont know whats wrong with the vista pc...

[Vahr 341]

This section of the tutorial (Issues on Changing to Right Hand Drive) will usually fix that issue.

[Crossoverone 1]

thank u