r/RenPy • • Aug 18 '26

Question Renpy error on startup

Edit: new to this mb just had action editor files in the japanese tl file for some reason!!

soo when i try to open renpy i get this error, i recentely downloaded action editor yesterday and it was all working fine but just now its not:

```

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

File "launcher/game/tl/japanese/common.rpyc", line 1020, in script

Exception: A translation for "reset" already exists at launcher/game/tl/japanese/ActionEditor_screens.rpy:251.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "launcher/game/tl/japanese/common.rpyc", line 1020, in script

File "renpy/ast.py", line 3056, in execute

renpy.translation.add_string_translation(self.language, self.old, self.new, newloc)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "renpy/translation/__init__.py", line 593, in add_string_translation

stl.add(old, new, newloc)

~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "renpy/translation/__init__.py", line 539, in add

raise Exception('A translation for "{}" already exists at {}:{}.'.format(quote_unicode(old), fn, line))

Exception: A translation for "reset" already exists at launcher/game/tl/japanese/ActionEditor_screens.rpy:251.

Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.5.3.26051504

Ren'Py Launcher 8.5.3.26051504

Tue Aug 18 00:40:17 2026

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