Syberia 2

Syberia 2

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How to get the cutscenes with the correct language
By markoh00
Obviously the game has a bug - the cutscenes only play in english. When you look at the log you can see that the game always starts a cutscene using the parameter AN (for anglais which means english). The bink files however contain more than one audio track:

Track 0: german
Track 1: english
Track 2: spanish
Track 3: french
Track 4: italian

There may be a parameter to start the game using the correct audio track but I couldn't find one. So I decided to remix the bink files and replace the always chosen audio track 1 with the audio track of my choice. I made a little script file using RAD Video Tools and it only takes a few seconds to complete. After this the cutscenes play in your desired language (if there is dialogue in them) as far as the language is german, spanish, french or italian.
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Instructions:
1) Download the RAD Video Tools and install them.
http://www.radgametools.com/down/Bink/RADTools.exe

2) Download the packed file, extract the included script (using any program that can extract *.rar files) and save the script anywhere you like.
https://workupload.com/file/mYFequ3E

3) Open the script with an editor like notepad and change the pathname in the first line according to the path where your Syberia 2 bik files are stored (usually "Steam\SteamApps\common\Syberia 2\Video"). After that you need to change the audio track you want to extract by by changing the parameter /n0 in the first lines of the script.

Example:
BinkConv CIN00001_SybRecap.bik CIN00001_SybRecap.wav /v /n0
=> Extracts track 0 = german

BinkConv CIN00001_SybRecap.bik CIN00001_SybRecap.wav /v /n2
=> Extracts track 2 = spanish

BinkConv CIN00001_SybRecap.bik CIN00001_SybRecap.wav /v /n3
=> Extracts track 3 = french

BinkConv CIN00001_SybRecap.bik CIN00001_SybRecap.wav /v /n4
=> Extracts track 4 = italian

4) Save the script (using the same extension!) and run it through double click. A window will appear and you click start. After that process has ended close the window by clicking "close" and answer the question ("Save this RAD batch list?") with "no".

Now the cutscenes should have the correct audio.

If you like you can now delete all files using the extension "wav" in your video folder (only the ones stored there) since you don't need them anymore. You might also uninstall the RAD Video Tools.
Disclaimer and precautions
I made this script for my own use because I was annoyed that the audio of my chosen language IS in the files but not in the game. So I only tested the script with the beginning of the game and I tested the script using all available languages (except english because english is always chosen). I cannot guarantee that this script is perfect and will not break your game - although I don't think it will. Aso be aware that after using this script the only way to switch the videos back to the english language you have to delete and re-download them (or use a backup copy of your video folder) because this script REPLACES the english track with the audio of your choice.

So use at your own risc and if you want to be safe make a backup of the "video" folder before using the script.

As I told in my guide to "Syberia" english is not my native tongue so I hope you understand everything in this guide. If there are questions feel free to ask them.
95 Comments
Teleni Audanie 12 Oct, 2024 @ 2:10pm 
A truly working simpler solution is to edit the Windows registry, adding this key (on a 64bit machine):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microids\Syberia DVD

and adding inside it a string value with name "Language" and value the code of the langue to use (i.e. IT for italian).
Iηđiқλ™ Morpheus 26 Jan, 2023 @ 10:35pm 
il y a encore plus facile a faire debug.log dans le dossier du jeux vous remplacer piste 1 part piste 3 et en bout de text placé FR

A:steamthumbsup: la fin sa doit vous donner ça "Assert: Selecting audio track 3 in bink for FR\" &

Starting cinematic playback 'CIN10000_Romansbourg.bik'...Assert: Selecting audio track 3 in bink for FR\

et vous faite ça pour tous et voila full jeux FR et même chose pour les autre langue pas besoin de l'ogiciel ou de liste juste a bien regarder les fichier log de vos jeux

bonne continuation
Ritzga *happy bark!* 7 Oct, 2022 @ 9:53am 
Thanks for the guide!
BBF boby レゲエ 2 Feb, 2022 @ 7:11am 
bonjours j'ai un soucis mon jeu ne se lance pas j'ai deja formater mon pc et de l'installer le jeu cela n'a rein changer si des personne peuvent m'aider ca serait super
markoh00  [author] 12 Jan, 2022 @ 7:30am 
@Tipouik: Thanks for translating my guide into french as well.
Merci beaucoup pour la translation du francais.
(My french unfortunately is very bad as you can see).
Tipouik 3 Jan, 2022 @ 10:56am 
et j'ai oublié le @martinecarite :)
Tipouik 3 Jan, 2022 @ 10:54am 
ensuite :
après il faut changer la piste audio, dans la première ligne du script il y a ça :
BinkConv CIN00001_SybRecap.bik CIN00001_SybRecap.wav /v /n0
tu changes le n0 par le 3 pour le français, comme ça :
BinkConv CIN00001_SybRecap.bik CIN00001_SybRecap.wav /v /n3
tu enregistres le fichier, en gardant bien la même extension et tu doubles click sur le script
une fenetre va s'ouvrir, tu click start (ou démarrer) quand ça aura fini tu click sur close (ou fermer), si ça te demande à la fin d'enregistrer, tu peux clicker sur non
et tu n'as plus qu'à lancer le jeu :)
Tipouik 3 Jan, 2022 @ 10:54am 
pour le français :
tu télécharges l'utilitaire du 1) et tu installes
tu télécharges le pack du 2) et tu extraits le tout du .rar (n'importe où, ça passe)
pour le 3) tu prends le script que tu as extrait juste avant, tu l'ouvres avec notepad
il y a un chemin sur la première ligne, tu le remplaces par le chemin de ton install de syberia jusque là où sont situés les 2 fichiers bik de syberia (généralement c'est dans qqch comme "Steam\SteamApps\common\Syberia 2\Video")
martinecarite 3 Jan, 2022 @ 9:23am 
en français svp ce serait bien!
Mutasharid 29 Oct, 2021 @ 1:08pm 
thank you !