Visual Novels that require special fonts?

[Arbiten]

Hey o/

I've recently managed to extract the .arc script files from the visual novel "Sky full of stars". I did a quick check and it's all there, the entire common route and the heroine routes are seperated very nicely into separate files see here: (http://img.ctrlv.in/img/15/12/22/567962b9809f4.png)

I've managed to decode them as well since they were using Shift-JIS and word is very helpful with this. However, when i actually got around to starting the visual novel (Probably should've done this first). The game displays random symbols instead of kanji. Here: (http://img.ctrlv.in/img/15/12/22/567963857e5e2.png). I found this weird as in the mounted iso there was a font folder and when i extracted it. It seemed to be using the "Rodin" font. I figured when i installed the game, the font would be installed as well. 

What should i do in this situation? Reinstall the game or try and find the font and install it?

Perhaps it's not a problem with the font? I'm pretty confused about this

Thanks in advance!

- Arbiten

 

 

[CryingWestern]

You've got to change you region format,

Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > click on "Region" > Change your format to "Japanese (Japan)".

This is completely different to changing your location to Japan.

Edited December 22, 2015 by CryingWestern

[Arbiten]

You've got to change you region format,

Control Panel > Clock, Language and Region > click on "Region" > Change your format to "Japanese (Japan)".

This is completely different to changing your location to Japan.

Thanks  This fixed it, first novel i've read that required this though. At least i'll be able to read it now