Hello!

Several times over the last year, I've tried to get the English translation going/working. If I test it out mid-way, it seems to work. But if I try to finish it, it crashes every time. I've modified the files as suggested by Seru and others - I just can't seem to get it to cooperate.

I hate to ask this as I'd prefer to do the work myself as others have done - but would anyone be willing to help put together an English translation and test it out? I have editing capabilities on my end, but surely I am doing something wrong to get the game to continuously crash. Many English-speaking fans of the series would love to see this work, but I'm not certain anyone else has tried. I'm just messing it up somehow.

Thanks!

Hi,

crashes usually mean there's too much text in a text field, or you didn't add in every line. The only "easy" way to figure out which ones are crashing is to try out partially translated ones (use the original japanese file, and replace parts by your translated text) and start the game every 50 lines... once it crashes you've found the culprit to what is causing the crashes, and the usual fix is to shorten the text.

Hello!

Thanks for this feedback - I may actually give it a shot again. I was trying to do it in bigger bursts and translating the vehicle descriptions as well - maybe that was it. I'll see what happens!

It's a shame too, because at the beginning of the file is a language switch that just literally does not seem to work. If it could be figured out how to operate that switch, it could be so much easier.

Thanks!
Tony

I believe they added that functionality at some point and then removed it. In theory the config file of each installation even has a "language" setting.

Good luck with your tries.

Get over to the steam forums, and join the English community discord. We have a full translation.

Sadly the discord seems to have been abandoned by the person doing the translation …

I would help. I already did a private cleanup of V4 to work (better) in linux. This is mainly correcting line breaks to fit into the boxes completely. Root cause might a a different font between Windows (11) and (my) linux. However, I noticed that A-Train9 by default is multilingual but the language selector is somewhat hidden. So by now we have a German patch and an English patch.

Lockheed

PS: Not sure but I think creating a new user here in this forum is locked for quite a while already. I'll roam around in wisim-welt.de and the Discord so long.

After the english patch for A-Train 9V5.0 patch level 4914 worked quite fine I now try to adapt it for patch level 5202 which supports import from A9 Train Construction (A9TC, from patch level 5197).
English translation for 5197 exists but didn't get released as 5205 was published before testing could be completed. 5202 fixes some bugs regarding load of big file size maps.

More details will be at h t t p s : / / w w w . w i s i m - w e l t . d e / and the Discord server as that forum seems to be more intact.

Lockheed