Weird question coming up here: Does the DS have a different BIOS based on where you buy it? (Not as in Japan,USA or Europe, but rather Germany, France, UK, etc..) Story is that so far all the European DS games I tried take the language depending on what language your DS is set to. Now I purchased the first DS Castlevania and it plays in German only, which is really annoying. I would like to play it English. My DS of course is set to English. There could not be any saves on the cart either since I unsealed it myself. Why does the game refuse to boot in English? Dumping the ROM confirms that the game is multilingual. So the only idea I got is that the DS has a different BIOS with a hardcoded language/country code depending on where you buy it. Can anyone confirm this or tell me whats going on with Castlevania?
I don't know if this can help you, but sometime ago I've read that on first boot the game reads the language settings present in your DS and then you can't change it anymore. I've also read that pressing L + R + A + B + X + Y on game boot or keeping pressed L+R when you start the game can solve the problem, but beware that with the first code you'll lose your gamesaves.
Hmmm, strange. I can confirm it indeed isn´t the cart, as I bought my copy of Castlevania DoS in Germany too, and played it in English.
Man! Thanks a lot for the first tip (L+R). It really did the job! Now I wonder why the hell do they have this menu when they never actually let you access it from the game?! Would be so hard to have it linked in the options? I think not. Anyway, thanks again!
Actually this is done as a safety mesure to prevent users from accidently changing the languge without knowing . Anyway the L+R trick just delete the game save ( which stores the languge settings ) so I guess that you can change it through dumping and hex editing the sav file P.S the reason why the languge in the game isn't bound to the DS languge might be that Nintendo only circulated the code to several devs and not others ( personally I've seen only nintendo and Konami games with such feature)
My save file is still intact! That is the weird thing about it. L+R only brings up the menu, the save is unaffected.
I didn't read the manual, I'll check it later. But I still think it would not hut to simply link the language menu in the options like most games do :nod:
