Numbers show as gibberish

[CyberDagger]

So, I recently learned about the translation patch and applied it to the game. Most of the text is showing in English, though with some spacing issues, so I guess that means everything went as it should. However, I am having a problem, that being that the numbers aren't displaying properly and instead show up as unintelligible strings of text.

As an example of what's happening, here's how my starter Marisa's status screen looks:




The numbers should be the same regardless of whether the game is in English or Japanese, so it wouldn't be something affected by the translation, I thought. I figured it might be a locale problem, and I tried running the game through AppLocale and LocaleEmulator, but both of them caused the game to crash on startup, showing an error message in Japanese.


Does anyone know what is happening and how I can fix it. For games of this kind, not being able to see numbers makes them pretty much unplayable, so I'd like to know what my options are.

Thank you in advance for whatever help you might offer.

[DerxwnaKapsyla]

Your game needs to be in Japanese locale, or you need to run the game using Locale Emulator.

[CyberDagger]

I already explained that I tried that in the first post. When I run the game in Japanese locale, it crashes on startup, and I get an error message that I can't read, as I don't know Japanese.

[Mille]

Applocale doesn't work. I have no experience with Locale Emulator so I can't offer much input on that, but setting your entire computer's system to Japanese might work.

[Greenmittenz]

I had this problem before and applocale does indeed not work (I assume locale emulator is the same). The fix is to change your computer to run non unicode programs in Japanese.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-system-locale#1TC=windows-7

All other programs should work normally other then occasionally having the \ symbol show up as the yen symbol in certain situations so you can just keep your computer in Japanese locale.

[DerxwnaKapsyla]

AppLocale is an outdated tool, Locale Emulator is a much more modernized version of AppLocale. We have done testing and confirmed that Locale Emulator works with the game. Locale Emulator should not crash the game, if it's crashing the game it's not a fault of the tool, since several people on the translation team (myself included) use it without issue.

The numbers should be the same regardless of whether the game is in English or Japanese, so it wouldn't be something affected by the translation, I thought.

As for the numbers and stuff not displaying right, it is very much a locale issue - The way the game displays numbers is handled through the japanese internal font, which is in "shift_jis". A standard english locale machine cannot display shift_jis correctly.

Actually, thinking about it, I did get a similar error, but it was from trying to mess with stuff within the patch so I can do testing.

[CyberDagger]

I did as Greenmittenz recommended and set my computer to run non-unicode programs in Japanese. Now I get the error whenever I try to start the game, locale emulator or not. It seems it's Japanese locale itself that's triggering the error, not the program used to access it, which is strange. The game was meant to be played in Japanese computers, after all.

If at least I could read what the error message says, maybe I could have this figured out already...

[Greenmittenz]

You might need to reinstall the game while your computer is in Japanese locale. I believe that is what I ended up having to do.

I believe the error message is saying it cant access the dat files which is because it is looking for a file path using "\" instead of "¥".

[CyberDagger]

That did it! Even solved the spacing problems.

Thanks a bunch for your help, everyone!