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Koga, the image of the blond guy is supposed to appear, followed by a set of warnings (I think) in Japanese, before opening up the game's main menu. What does it do after the guy appears?
okakuneko, I don't use XP, but there should be an option in the control panel to "Change the System Locale" to Japanese. As TnC isn't in unicode, another encoding is to be used, and this is set in the control panel. If you can read Japanese text on your computer, you should have it available. Otherwise, look for a language pack: the Microsoft website should have it.