Locale Emulator Portable

[Stayce Cawthorn]

Thisweek I did the upgrade from 10 to 11, and everything has worked great so far, except for Locale Emulator, which I relied on to play a lot of VNs. I've googled around and haven't found the exact problem I'm having; For me, the options still appear in the context menu like usual. However, when I do "Run in Japanese" or with administrator privileges, it just tries to boot up the games normally, without forcing the locale (which you can tell by the bungled characters, or some games not running at all). In LEGUI.exe, I've also toggled "Fake system language", to no effect.

Has anyone run into this issue and figured out a solution? I imagine a lot of people will be using W11 now. I'm hoping someone will have some useful tips. I have yet to try actually changing the system locale. I was gonna leave that to last resort.

Alternatively, install Ubuntu, Fedora or any other common Linux distros, either on bare metal, or through a virtual machine or Windows Subsystem for Linux, then install Wine in it and run this command from a terminal window:

Why did you upgrade your OS to Windows 11?! That's still a very recent OS and its prone to bugs and some other unforeseen issues along the lines. You should have just stick with Windows 10 since its a little stable now despite the annoying updates coming very now and then.

Yeah, it exists, and functions essentially the same. I just wanted to leave the nuclear option of changing my locale to last resort, since some programs think they know better than you and set the language to your locale's language. Ideally I'd like to just get LE to work again. It seems to work fine for most people, from posts I've seen online, so I thought I'd ask here in case someone knew why mine doesn't.

Now that I think of it, isn't it possible to set multiple users on Windows, or even multiple sessions for the same user? Perhaps you could have a secondary user or session with the Japanese locale, while having the main user or session with the usual settings.

As for Locale Emulator on Windows 11, it seems that the latest version I downloaded ( 2.5.0.1 ) was set up on Windows 8 config. What I did was "right click" on the LEInstaller.exe and choose "Resolve compability problems". Then run the process as it is and launch again the LEInstaller.exe file as admin. It worked well this time. Afterwards, right click on the game you want to open and it will show Local Emulator in the options to run it.

Locale Emulator is an open-source application for Windows that runs programs outside the default location. It is specifically created for computers that need a locale. However, you can also use it to run virtually any other program.

I'm looking for a way to launch 64-bit programs in a Chinese, Japanese, and Russian locale without changing my current system locale (which is English). With Microsoft's AppLocale I was able to launch 32-bit programs in any locale but AppLocale doesn't launch 64-bit programs in a locale different to the system locale.

After many weeks of silently enjoying the beautiful content provided by you guys I decided to step up my Living Dex game (also caused by the recent news of Nintendo eShop discontinuation) and collect every Pokemon from Gen 1 up to Gen 7 that I am currently still missing. As of now, I'm looking to collect every possible Vivillion pattern by catching those in Pokemon X on different, fresh saves with the corresponding regions set up by using the Luma3DS Locale Emulation feature on my modded New 3DS.

So far so good, than I progressed through the game until I could catch a Scatterbug on Route 2. Right after I caught one I saved my game and took a look at the save file with PKHex. (attached screenshot) The Scatterbug seems to be perfectly fine, the 3DS Region, Sub Region and Country correspond to the ones I set up with the locale.txt. The info provided by the Trainer Data Editor however seems to be not fully correct. While the Sub Region is not set (which should not be the issue in my case), the Vivillion pattern still remains Continental, wich would be the correct one if played the game with a german save, but not with a save from the Dominican Republic. The correct Vivillion pattern for that region is the Archipelago pattern. So what next? I changed the pattern to Archipelago, booted up the game again, caught another Scatterbug and than proceeded to evolve both Scatterbugs to see the outcome. To my suprise, the first Vivillion still turned out to have the Continental pattern. The second one though had the Archipelago pattern. After i looked at the save file again, both Vivillions passed the Legality test.

Thus, if you really really want to spoof Vivillon, consider doing a CTRtransfer for region spoofing. The 3DS CFW guide should have the CTRtransfer files there, and GBAtemp should have an old guide on using that to region spoof. I recommend doing that on a copy of your Emunand. All at your own risk tho.

(More of a Legality question) Both Vivillions obviously have the same TID, SID and OT. PKHex still says both are legit, is that correct? If so, does that mean that Vivillions pattern is decided when the Scatterbug is first caught/bred and not when its evolving?

Thus, if you really really want to spoof Vivillon, consider doing a CTRtransfer for region spoofing. The 3DS CFW guide should have the CTRtransfer files there, and GBAtemp should have an old guide on using that to region spoof. I recommend doing that on a copy of your Emunand. All at your own risk tho.

Since my goal is to transfer those Vivillions to Pokmon Bank and then to Home, i would prefer to use the safest and most "legit" way to do so. I already considered installing the CTRtransfer images one after another on my spare 2DS but thought I could safe myself some time. Little did I know about that set of coordinates stored in the 3DS profile.

As i am familiar with homebrew to a certain level it hopefully won't be difficult to perform the region change, at least the guide doesn't looks complicated. BUT I guess it will be a problem using my dumped .cia since that should be only working for EUR devices, won't it? If i had to buy a copy for each region I will probably reconsider the whole process ^^

If there is no region info on the cart as well, how can a EUR device perform a check and in case of lets say a game from the JAP region block that specific cart? Or does that just count for the Pokemon 3DS games?

Sorry, I did express myself rather unclearly in my last post. I didn't intend on using the foreign region carts to bypass the region lock. But if I understand correctly, the Pokmon CIA I dumped will not run any check for a region when installing & booting it on a region-changed system whereas a Pokmon cartridge (like my EUR cart) would perform such a check on a region-changed system, right?

You can dump a .3DS version of your Pokmon X using GodMode9, then start different games with Citra, changing the region every time, and then use PKHeX to put all the Scatterbug/Vivillon you caught in your original save file.

I believe Citra also doesn't emulate the secret coords correctly, unless you do a proper dump from your own 3DS. Which would require different region'd 3DSes. Which goes back to the CTRtransfer shtick.

But this is still worth a shot. Also, I think Citra can install CIAs. Since the user already dumped a CIA, could just try installing that and see if that works.

I believe Citra also doesn't emulate the secret coords correctly, unless you do a proper dump from your own 3DS. Which would require different region'd 3DSes. Which goes back to the CTRtransfer shtick.

But this is still worth a shot. Also, I think Citra can install CIAs. Since the user already dumped a CIA, could just try installing that and see if that works.

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