Is this normal? (KF1SOM)

[EdmondDantes]

So I have an old machine I play Windows 98 games on, and thought "why not try King's Field 1 PC?"

It seemed to run fine but some of the text was glitched. ‎  In particular, one of Eric Baccus' (the second shopkeeper on the first floor) lines showed up completely garbled, and money displayed at first as .f (Period followed by an F). ‎  I tried installing foreign fonts and Microsofts English-Japanese IME, and it... changed the font, but now money is * F (Asterisk-F, or at least a dot that I think is supposed to be an asterisk). ‎  I haven't restarted to see if Eric's one line was fixed.

I was just wondering if this is normal for the PC version in Windows 98, or is there some additional font/software I should install, or do I have to actually install the SOM software itself (currently I only have KF1 installed)?

I'm also running the game in 800x600 16-bit color (I have a Voodoo 3 2000) if that makes any difference. ‎  This comp is 700mhz and 512mb of ram, so its pretty maxed out for a Windows 98 SE comp.

[dmpdesign]

Historically MS Gothic was all that was required to play the games correctly I thought, as long as you arent running the SOM editor itself. ‎  Curious where did you download the game files and did they include an installable font?

[Holy_Diver]

Try Control Panel->Region Settings, and turn on Japanese for Non-Unicode programs. But if someone took the time to port this to use my work it would have 0 problems and play 1000% better.

[Holy_Diver]

EDITED: For the record, the player uses MS Mincho (a serif font.) But if you install Japanese language stuff you'll get that. But you need the "Non-Unicode" setting too I think.

[EdmondDantes]

Hey, sorry I basically disappeared. ‎  At the time there was no activity and I thought this forum was dead.

I never got KF1SOM working so I instead played the PS1 version, which I kinda prefer anyway because I'm a bit of a purist.

Anyway, I can't remember where I got KF1SOM.. I wanna say here:

https://www.swordofmoonlight.com/games/

But it was so long ago I can't be certain.

I had MSGothic installed but by the time other suggestions were made, I was no longer checking, sorry.