Oh yeah, I can read japanese text just fine on the internet. Sites come up perfectly, heck it'll even let me type in it if I knew wtf I was doing. But this game just wants to be a *****.
Same here. I'm just hoping the English patch for TnC will let me understand. *hope*
This may be a compatibility issue. There might be a service pack or an update you need to download for the game to work properly on Windows 7.
I found the solution~!!!
It's a Non-Unicode thing setting. Guide is here!
Japanese Fonts
I followed it, restarted my computer, reinstalled the game, and it works like a charm!
EDIT: Maybe you can try doing this setting without uninstalling. I lost all my load games...
I was lurking around other sites, and I found out that games must be installed while your locale is set to Japanese, otherwise, even if you set it that way later, it doesn't work.