Ultima VI: Le Faux Prophète

Title screen

Ultima VI: Le Faux Prophète is a fan-patch created by Yves, also known as Docwise Dragon, which fully translates Ultima VI into French and is hosted at Die Heimstatt des Sir John.

The Patch

The only official translation made for Ultima VI was Japanese. Yves did the French translation from the ground up, using the same tools as Sir John for Ultima VI auf Deutsch. There were difficulties, especially since lots of work had to be done with hex editors and the spellbook was hardcoded, leading to spells having to be shortened. Another problem was the special characters in French which, while correctly displayed in the text, could not be entered properly by users and thus needed a workaround. A special manual was created to explain the changes.

A few strange effects occur due to the translation, such as the moons in the time display suddenly going into the opposite direction.

Installation

The original version of Ultima VI is required for the patch. The patch files are then simply copied into the game directory, which is basically all that needs to be done to patch the game to French. The resulting game can then be played in DOSBox.

Features

The following features are part of the patch:

• Full and complete translation of all text in the game to French.
• Re-creation of all in-game graphical text elements into French (as seen in the title screen).
• Due to the nature of the spellbook, most spells are abbreviated.
• Copy protection stays in English due to program code.
• Included is a full French translation of the Compendium as a PDF, which is a first, as the book originally went untranslated as well.

Gallery

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  New introduction screen

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  Introduction

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  The spellbook

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  Looking at the Orb of the Moons

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  Talking with Nystul

External Links

• Ultima VI — French Translation Patch

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Translations of the Ultima series
Official Translations	In General ☥ Ultima VII ☥ Ultima VIII ☥ Ultima IX
Fan Translations of Ultima VI	German ☥ Spanish ☥ French
Fan Translations of Savage Empire (SNES)	English
Fan Translations of Ultima Underworld (PSX)	English
Fan Translations of Ultima VII	German ☥ Italian
Fan Translations of Ultima VII Part Two	German ☥ French