Tool for fixing garbage text in Wolf RPG games without JP locale

[zazazaku]

Searched the forums a bit, didn't see a link to this solution so I decided to create a thread. Feel free to remove this if this was mentioned somewhere accessible.

If you've been using Locale Emulator (instead of switching your Windows locale to Japanese) like I have, you may have noticed that it doesn't fix Wolf RPG games. All it does is make garbage text appear instead of no text at all. To fix that, go here:

gist.github.com/nmlgc/0a3d1b5ce4804bdebc29

and follow the instructions (sorry for the lurker URL). Hopefully you'll have lots of beautiful kanji that you can't read appear on the screen instead of a bunch of ASCII fugitives.

 

[Tortum]

It took me a while to get it working (I need to make a config file and shove the null.js into that, dunno why it's not searching for where the target is), but holy shit this actually fixes a bunch of Wolf RPG games for me. Thanks a lot for the tip!

 

[habisain]

A possibly simpler method: Grab a newer version of the WolfRPG executable, and replace the executable in the afflicted game with the new version. Recent versions of WolfRPG output text using UTF-8 functions, which means they'll work without hacking. (It will still require a path that contains no characters outside your current codepage though)