Quick Start

Quick Start

This page gets you from zero to a single translated line in-game. Plan on about ten minutes.

Prerequisites

1. My Winter Car, installed normally.
2. MSCLoader for My Winter Car, installed per its own instructions.

Important

If you previously used a BepInEx-based language pack (pre-v1.0.0), delete the entire BepInEx/ folder from your game directory before installing MSCLoader. The two cannot coexist cleanly.

Step 1 — Get the template

Download the shipping template from the NexusMods page (it's the same archive end-users install — a Korean reference pack you'll edit into your own language). It contains:

Assets/
└── MWC_Localization_Core/
    ├── config.txt                  Language configuration
    ├── translate.txt               Main UI translations
    ├── translate_magazine.txt      classifiedss magazine
    ├── translate_teletext.txt      TV teletext and chat
    ├── translate_msc.txt           Optional: My Summer Car base
    ├── translate_mod.txt           Optional: mod content
    └── fonts.unity3d               Optional: custom font bundle
MWC_Localization_Core.dll

Step 2 — Drop the files into the Mods folder

Copy the archive contents into the game's Mods folder so the final layout is:

My Winter Car/
└── Mods/
    ├── Assets/
    │   └── MWC_Localization_Core/
    │       ├── config.txt
    │       ├── translate.txt
    │       ├── translate_magazine.txt
    │       ├── translate_teletext.txt
    │       ├── translate_msc.txt
    │       ├── translate_mod.txt
    │       └── fonts.unity3d
    └── MWC_Localization_Core.dll

The Assets/MWC_Localization_Core/ path is required — MSCLoader looks for assets there.

Step 3 — Set your language metadata

Open Mods/Assets/MWC_Localization_Core/config.txt and edit the two lines at the top:

LANGUAGE_NAME = Your Language
LANGUAGE_CODE = xx-XX

Use the language's own name for LANGUAGE_NAME (e.g. Español, 日本語, Português) and the ISO code for LANGUAGE_CODE (e.g. es-ES, ja-JP, pt-BR). Everything else in config.txt can stay as-is for now — see Configuration for the full reference.

Step 4 — Translate one line

Open translate.txt. Find any line, for example:

BEER = 맥주

Replace the right-hand side with your language:

BEER = Cerveza

Save the file.

Step 5 — See it in-game

1. Launch My Winter Car.
2. Open MSCLoader's mod settings and confirm MWC Localization Core is enabled.
3. Start or load a save.
4. Find a beer (or whatever string you edited) — the new text should be on screen.
5. Edit another line in translate.txt, save, then press F8 in-world. The reload is instant, no restart needed.

If the text didn't change, see Testing & Debugging for the common causes.

Step 6 — Where to go next

• translate.txt — the main translation file, line-by-line format reference.
• translate_magazine.txt — classifieds magazine keyword pool and the price/phone line.
• translate_teletext.txt — TV teletext and chat (the file with section headers).
• Optional Translation Files — re-use an MSC translation as a base, or split mod lines into translate_mod.txt.
• Translation Patterns — what to do with {0} / {1} placeholders.
• Text Adjustments — when translated text overflows or is misaligned.
• Creating font assetbundle — if your language needs glyphs the default font lacks.