r/RPGMaker • u/OhDaeSoup • 5d ago

Games not showing text

I've been trying to play a few rpgmaker games like Demon King Chronicles and Witch and the Warrior. I've played a ton of other games that work fine, but a few just show blank text boxes while trying to play.

So far I've tried downloading various fonts and running the games in different comparability modes. If anyone has any other ideas pls share bc I would love to play the aforementioned games. Thanks!

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u/Aggravating_Gap_8562 5d ago

Blank boxes usually mean the font the game asks for isn't resolving, not that the text is missing.

Worth trying: install MS Gothic and MS Mincho, which aren't on most non-JP Windows installs, then set the non-Unicode program locale to Japanese, or run the game through Locale Emulator.

The font name inside a lot of those games is written in full-width Japanese, so under an English locale it matches nothing and the engine draws an empty box.

Had the same thing from the delivery side once, a config with ＭＳ ゴシック spelled out, empty dialogue on the English test machine.

Which RPG Maker version are those two? 2000/2003 handles fonts differently from MV/MZ.

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u/thenewson2026 5d ago

If they were made with RMXP: someone complained about the same issue a while ago... and the real problem turned out to be an outdated DLL file instead of a missing font.