Japanese GCN games in non-Japanese mode

[lumclaw]

Is there a way to get Dolphin to emulate the behavior of running NTSC-J games on a foreign console?
A region switch (or Freeloader/modchip/etc) used on a real GameCube applies in both directions, regardless of any consequences like mojibake.

Whereas Dolphin's "Force console as NTSC-J" option only forces non-Japanese games into Japanese mode. The option is ignored for Japanese games, and they always run as NTSC-J.

[gamemasterplc]

replace the font_sjis.bin with the font_ansi.bin

[JosJuice]

There's currently no such option, but you can do it by modifying Dolphin's code. Maybe you also can get the same effect by launching the game through a homebrew launcher (all GameCube DOLs and ELFs are automatically detected as NTSC-U IIRC).

(01-26-2017, 10:55 PM)gamemasterplc Wrote: replace the font_sjis.bin with the font_ansi.bin

That will get you closer to it, but it's not a complete solution. Also, keep in mind that these files changed name to font_japanese.bin and font_western.bin in recent development version.