Spore – Fix for the Bad_DATA problem
A few days ago I installed the new expansion for Spore, called Galactic Adventure. It is really cool and combined with the Creapy and Cute expansion pack it makes the original even more interactive.
The problem with the new EP1 is that it introduces a rather annoying problem that displays all planets and galaxies in the game with BAD_DATA name. It’s very frustrating and can make your game seem like hell, as it’s impossible to find a lot of locations. Luckily I found a solution in the official forums. SporeMasterKaliena and Vycka. They have different solutions. I will post here the one that I have used:
1)Rightclick over the shortcut for Spore (If you don’t have one – create one onto your desktop)
2) Select “Properties” from the menu
3) Where it says Target: it needs to read “C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\SPORE_EP1\SporebinEP1\SporeApp.exe” -locale:en-us4) All you should need to add to the target is the “-locale:en-us” bit.
This will work, HOWEVER NOTE:- Any planets or stars you have previously selected or hightlighted which said “Bad_Data” will continue to say “Bad_Data” if you saved the game, but any new stars,planets will now have proper names.
That not gonna work,it nont let to change file location
Well, it worked for me once, when I played the game
I would be glad if you can share your solution, so that someone else can find it later on.
Great information. I’ve bookmarked this internet site.
I’ve tried this before in fact I still have it in my short cut but it only fixed the names of citizens of my village and the names of cities can someone please help I’ve search for 3 days trying to figure it out.
Strange, it helped me when I played the game…but it was long time ago, so maybe something has changed
man it working!!!!!!!!!!!tnx soo much!
I have given up I’ve searched the web twice over and it still doesn’t work good bye spore forever
thanks very help full btw just so eveone knows it works with the tribe people and citys to
If the shortcut wont work. you could try and hard copy the laguage file over. goto wherever spore is installed. open data. open locale. open en-us and copy namegenerator. paste in en-gb.
Might work. should prevent any future bad data issues.
There is also a cheat way to rename planets. I think as long as you dont rename ur homeworld it wont be concidered cheating so no joker badge.