How to hax locales?

[Watatsuki]

So today I tried to edit my locales, except it didn't work. When I put my new locales in it showed like "Patch.Label.Gamestart" or "Patch.Label.Filecheck" instead of actual words.

I do not want a locale merger, I want to make my own custom locales.

I edited a couple of words in the Items.xml file, made sure I made it read-only again, then zipped the thing with Winrar at normal compression rate and gave it the same password as allm's files.

But the game doesn't want to read it. I also tried using 7zip and a zero compression rate, but neither of those worked.

This was attempted on TLunia and JLunia.

What is the trick to making the game like it?

[Kanata Saionji]

Open up your modified XML file in any web browser. If you receive an error, then you made a mistake in editing the XML. If not, something else is wrong.

[buta]

If the XMLs are fine, it could just be that your compression is different from what Lunia is used to or you misplaced a file. It isn't uncommon for some developers to create their own types of files for games so I suppose an uncommon compression rate, or possibly even a lack thereof, wouldn't be totally unexpected.

What about if you try making your own and then use the locale merger with yours and something else? (assuming these things work how i think they work...)

[lazybum]

Well you can try how i did it back then:
extract out the desired xml file that you want to edit
do whatever changes you want to the file
open the zipped locales file (e.g chineset.zip) with winrar or whatever
drag and drop the edited xml file into the respective directory
select overwrite if prompted

hope that helps =)

never tried unzipping everything then zipping it back again like you did cause its too troublesome

[Watatsuki]

Yay, that works.

Thanks.