Changing game language?

[Ayrell]

Hi everyone:

After installing Ambitions my save games became corrupted, so I have to start anew. I decided to try Twinbrook, which looks pretty nice. The problem is that since my game is in Spanish (my mother language) all the townies have silly translated Spanish names. Is there a way to turn the game into English or some kind of file I could replace so that they would have their English names? I tried editing the "locale" entry in the registry, but then the Launcher (which is evil, I know, but I'm still setting things up so I'm not using 3booter yet) gave me an error and refused to load, so I'm not very confident on it actually working.

Any tips or ideas? Thanks in advance.

[The_Goddess]

The hard way; take each and every one of them to City Hall to get their names changed. 

[IgnorantBliss]

Or reinstall the game and select English as the language. At least that's how I always get my game to be in English instead of Finnish.

[Heodez]

Ayrell, the game will work if you edit the registry. You just need to start from TS3.exe and not from Sims3Launcher.exe. It's just the Launcher that won't work.

However, if you edit the registry, you'll need to rename your "Los Sims 3" file in My Documents\Electronic Arts to "The Sims 3" (or else the game will start a blank new game and not load your previous saves).

[Ayrell]

Thank you all for the tips and the advice. It was just like Heodez said, the actual game worked and I am now playing in English. Thank you so much! And thanks for telling me about the renaming thing also.