Cave Story - Best Ending tutorial - by DbX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvC7BCcorg

How to display Japanese characters in Cave Story

*(guide originally written by Shadax)*

If your game shows weird text like this:

https://i.imgur.com/OOnMe9X.png

Then, it means your computer doesn't handle non-unicode programs' text well. Thankfully, it doesn't make any difference in terms of speed/time in the game so you can still do runs with messed-up text, this is totally fine.

However, if you want Japanese characters to be displayed, here are 2 potential solutions:

**1.  Locale Emulator**
Download Locale Emulator via this link -> https://xupefei.github.io/Locale-Emulator/  
After installation you'll be able to launch programs in Japanese by:  
-> right clicking the .exe file  
-> select *Locale Emulator*  
-> click *Run in Japanese*

**2. Switching your system locale to Japanese**
In order to do that:

-> hit the Windows key  
-> search for *intl.cpl*  
-> select the *Administrative* tab  
-> under the *Language for non-Unicode programs* section, click *Change system locale* and select *Japanese (Japan)*

Your PC may then reboot.  
**Note:** Opting for this way may sometimes alter other programs' character displays so watch out.

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Must apply the patch at https://www.speedrun.com/cave_story/resources/ai8cl if you want to use Auto Text Advance.

Auto Text Advance

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Cave Story - Best Ending tutorial - by DbX	Deleted 9 years ago
How to display Japanese characters in Cave Story	periwinkle 4 years ago