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"mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> wrote in message 
news:pY80s.91817$0b5.8582@fx28.am4...

>> "Mary"  wrote in message news:k1ml6a$t9u$1@speranza.aioe.org...

Mick,  I just came online today for the first time at 4.15 pm North America 
time, and two minutes later your message appeared in my Inbox. Good timing. 
I will try the instructions you gave me below in a little while.I am going 
to delete everything I downloaded on bs25 game and  patch and download them 
again from scratch. I'll let you know. thanks.

Mary

 > I clicked on "Gamershell" the first time I tried the game from the link I
> got from the post from rms. After clicking on the next page on Gamershell
> which is http://www.gamershell.com/download_33464.shtml  there is a big 
> Red
> DOWNLOAD sign I clicked on that and it says "your download is ready,. I
> clicked to download and the File Download window comes up and I clicked
> "Save" to download bs25.setup.zip to a new folder I made called :BSinfo" .
>
>> Further up the page there is a link to the official patch, download that.
>> I downloaded them onto my desktop (I always do because its easier to find
>> stuff).
>
>>I downloaded that before also and put it in my new folder SBinfo. BTW, you
>>say above you downloaded bs25.setup.zip to the desktop, so did you also
>>download the patch file to your desktop in a separate icon than the setup 
>>file?
>>Did you unzip bs25setup.zip and the patch and extract them in winzip and 
>>install both
>>in the same folder somewhere on your drive?
>
> What I did was download both to my desktop then create two new folders, 
> put bs25setup.zip
> in one and then patch in the other. I then unzip the game archive to 
> reveal the installer then double-
> clicked that to install the game. Then I go to the other folder (the patch 
> folder) that contains the patch and unzip that.
> Then I copy all of the files from Ive just unzipped in the patch folder to 
> the place where Ive installed the game. The ones you need to make sure you 
> copy are
>
> bsengine.exe (there will already be a file with this name in your Broken 
> Sword game folder, just replace it with the
> new one)
>
> fmodex.dll (ditto)
>
> lang_en.b25c (This is the English language stuff)
>
> patch000.b25c (Not sure about this one but copy it anyway)
>
>>Back to the Main page of the game,, I clicked on "official patch" a little
>>further up from where I clicked on "Gamershell".The patch is 
>>"BS25_patch000_multilingual.zip"
>>and I put it in the same BSinfo folder where I have "bs25-setup.zip.
>
> See above. If you put them in seperate folders you will be clear which 
> files to copy.
>
>
>> Unzip the main game file which will give you the game installer file.
>> Install the game. Unzip the patch file and copy all of the contents to
>> wherever you installed the game.
>
>>on the desktop. There is a file bsengine.exe in the folder but I don't 
>>know what its for.
>
> It's the main game file. See above.
>
>>The problem I am having seems to involve the patch.
>>I wonder if you need Windows 7 to get the patch working for English. I am
>>using Win XP on my desktop. I have Win 7 on a laptop, but use my desktop
>>most of the time.
>
> Win7 or XP should make any difference. I think you just havent copied the 
> right files to the
> game folder. See the four mentioned above.
>
>>Each time I think this time the characters will talk in English and I will 
>>understand what they say, but they still speak
>>German -:>) If you see an obvious error I am making, let me know. It's 
>>probably some small thing I am doing or not doing.
>
> Give the above another go and let me know.
>
> mick
>
>