New SD card, same ROMs....language in Japanese now?

KC93

Snippet: Crazy Taxi USA ROM (using lr-flycast) ran in English and was all good.
I used official Raspberry Pi Imager to get Retropie onto a class 10 8GB micro SD (FAT32 format).
All was great. Filled up the micro SD with ROMs and of course then wanted to use bigger SD card.

Got a new 16GB class 10 micro SD (different brand but again formatted FAT32).....used same official Imager, same software version, same Pi 3 hardware.
All ROMs are running the same (plus all the more I could fit onto new 16GB SD card).....but Crazy Taxi game has now changed to Japanese text....

I used the same USB stick to transfer the same Crazy Taxi (USA ROM) and all the other pre-existing plus new ROMs to the new 16GB SD card and.....now text in just Crazy Taxi game is in Japanese?

I've tried updating everything. Making sure all languages/locales, etc are set on USA/English.....I'm confused here

Pi 3
Retropie 4.8.9
Imagery v1.8.5

Any help is greatly appreciated!

mitu

Isn't the Language one of the Core Options ? Check which one is selected there.

retropieuser555

https://docs.libretro.com/library/flycast/

Core options here, change the language from default to whatever you prefer. Also might want to change the region Bios as this can affect it too

sleve_mcdichael

@mitu said in New SD card, same ROMs....language in Japanese now?:

Isn't the Language one of the Core Options ?

Note: you must quit (start + select) and restart for this to take effect -- simply "reset" (select + B/south) does not update the language.

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You can also set it in the DC system bios.

Enable core option: boot to bios (restart required)

(Again, quit and restart -- no reset allowed)

In the bios menu, push Down to highlight the clock icon (settings) and press B/South to select. On the next screen, select the first option (language), then you can see English (written in English) is the second choice on the following screen.

Dis-able the "boot to bios" core option again then quit-restart one more time. The game loads in English.

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It looks like these methods are connected. Like the core option actually writes it to the bios setting (stored in file dc_nvmem.bin).

If I select core option language English, then restart to take effect, then set language back to "default" and restart again, it stays as English, doesn't revert back to Japanese. Then when I go into bios menu, it has been set to English there without my doing.

If core option "default" then: can change bios language, will retain setting next boot.

If core option "English(*)" then: system bios language re-set to "English" each boot.

*(or same for German, etc. -- in this case, system language was set to German in bios even though game didn't support it; game messages were still in English.)