Panzer Dragoon Orta in English?

[mezrabad]

I just bought a pre-played Xbox Panzer Dragoon Orta. It's quite wonderful, however, I'm noticing an awful lot of the written on-screen instructions and narration are in Japanese (not sure of the voiceovers, they could be in the made up language used in Panzer Dragoon Saga). I'm not finding a language option in any of the menus.

I'm playing on a modified Xbox purchased in Korea.

Is there something in Panzer Dragoon Orta that automatically selects the language based on the region it detects your Xbox to be from? Or is everyone's game like this?

Weird but still a beautiful game.

[youruglyclone]

if I remember correctly yeah it's the made up language so subs are there for translation purposes

[RCM]

Panzer Dragoon Orta was released in America on January 15th, 2003. Happy Bday PDO! The finest game of this generation.

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

[EnemyZero]

yeah its a made up language, so ure not going crazy

[mezrabad]

Panzer Dragoon Orta was released in America on January 15th, 2003. Happy Bday PDO! The finest game of this generation.

THE ONE, THE ONLY- RCM

Hey cool!

Okay, it's not the spoken voiceovers that are a problem (though thanks for confirming that it is indeed a made-up but real sounding language), it's the fact that the menu descriptions and all of the subtitles, encyclopedia stuff etc are in Japanese characters even though this copy of the game is for North America (box is in english).

I'm wondering if anyone knows if this particular game has some kind of language auto switching feature so that if it recognizes a Japanese-reigion Xbox it automagically switches the subtitles and menu descriptions to Japanese?

That would make it possible for the Japanese PDO and the NA PDO to be identical programming wise, except for the region lockouts. IE One part of the program checks region for purposes of region block out and another part of the program checks region for language purposes. I just wasn't aware of this being done and had always assumed a regionalized disk was a different regionalized program entirely. Guess I need to find a NA XBox to test this disc on to see if I didn't get a weird one.

[Iron Draggon]

Sega did that with Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 also, I believe. It's been a while since I played either one, but I know for sure that one of my imports of one of those games refused to play in Japanese for me, no matter how hard I tried to get it to do so. I was playing it on an American Dreamcast, and it seemed to be picking up on this, so it was all in English.

[Gapporin]

Sega did that with Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 also, I believe. It's been a while since I played either one, but I know for sure that one of my imports of one of those games refused to play in Japanese for me, no matter how hard I tried to get it to do so. I was playing it on an American Dreamcast, and it seemed to be picking up on this, so it was all in English.

Well, I have the US version of Sonic Adventure 2, and it allows you to switch in-between different languages:

English / Japanese -- voiceovers

English / Japanese / Spanish / German / French -- subtitles

Dunno if they cut that all out in the JPN version or not.

[Iron Draggon]

Yeah, I know the US version does, but if I remember correctly the Japan version of either Sonic Adventure or Sonic Adventure 2 will only play in Japanese if you use a Game Shark to play it, otherwise it detects that it's in an American system, and it plays in English. I'd have to dig it out to check. I own the US & Japan versions of both games, and I believe that the import versions of at least one of them can be played without a Game Shark. There is no region lockout on it. It just detects the region of the system that you're playing it in, and it displays the text in the native language for that region. Which sounds like what's happening with PDO. So no big surprise there, that seems to be Sega's new policy for all their high profile titles.