Localization · 12
Supported languages
The launcher and this site speak the same twelve languages, in the same order. 8 of them are in release 0.3.5; Turkish, Japanese, Hindi and Korean arrived in the development build that follows it.
Languages at a glance
The launcher ID is the number saved as language=<ID> in ps5pcem.ini.
| Language | Name in English | Launcher ID | In the launcher since | Direction | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | English | 0 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.1 | Left to right | / |
| Русский | Russian | 1 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.1 | Left to right | /ru |
| Deutsch | German | 2 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.1 | Left to right | /de |
| Français | French | 3 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.1 | Left to right | /fr |
| 简体中文 | Simplified Chinese | 4 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.4 | Left to right | /zh |
| Español | Spanish | 5 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.4 | Left to right | /es |
| العربية | Arabic | 6 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.4 | Right to left | /ar |
| Português | Portuguese | 7 | Release 0.3.0-alpha.4 | Left to right | /pt |
| Türkçe | Turkish | 8 | Development build | Left to right | /tr |
| 日本語 | Japanese | 9 | Development build | Left to right | /ja |
| हिन्दी | Hindi | 10 | Development build | Left to right | /hi |
| 한국어 | Korean | 11 | Development build | Left to right | /ko |
Switching
How to change the language
In the launcher
Open Settings and choose a card under Language. The choice applies at once to every page, status line and error explanation and is saved as language=<ID> in ps5pcem.ini. New languages are added at the end, so an ID saved by an older version keeps its meaning.
On this site
Use the language menu in the header. Every page exists in all twelve languages at its own address: English without a prefix, the others under /ru, /de, /fr, /zh, /es, /ar, /pt, /tr, /ja, /hi, /ko.
Details
Worth knowing
Arabic reads right to left
In the launcher, Arabic labels use right-to-left paragraph direction; centred buttons stay centred, and file paths and key names keep their own direction. This site mirrors its whole layout for Arabic.
Fonts
On Windows the launcher draws with Segoe UI, and Windows supplies Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Devanagari glyphs through its font fallback. On Linux, Pango chooses fonts through fontconfig: if a script shows up as boxes, install Noto Sans CJK and Noto Sans Devanagari or equivalent fonts.
Games keep their own language
The interface language does not change what a game sees. The emulator currently reports English (US) as the console's system language to every title, whatever the launcher shows.
What is translated
Every launcher phrase: navigation, library, controls, saves, settings, status lines, extraction messages and launch-failure explanations. Game names, folder paths, controller button and key names, the GPU name and log output appear as they are.
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