Hello.

I am currently experiencing an issue with my copy of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I have downloaded the Japanese converter as I intend to start speedrunning the game, and I ran the convertor. It said that the conversion was successful, and it automatically deleted the converter files indicating that it had worked properly.

The issue, however, came when I ran the game to see if the game had properly converted. All of the text was unreadable. The letters were all just blank blocks. I would be able to navigate the menu with Japanese text, but this is unplayable. It happens even with the English letters used in the controls menu.

I ended up verifying the game cache, and got the unhandled exception error. After changing my DEP I was able to launch the game again, but the text issue persisted. I do not know what could be causing this, and I haven't been able to find any solution online.

I use the Steam version of the game, but the convertor readme said it should work with the Steam version as well. Any help is appreciated because I am at a loss right now.

I responded on YouTube, but I'll also respond here just in case.

It sounds like you simply needed to retry the conversion, but verifying the cache on steam with the JP files will have messed a lot of things up. This would have made steam try and reinstate some of the steam files that the convertor overwrites, so you probably have some weird mix of Steam/JP right now.

From here, you should uninstall the game fully via Steam, and then run the convertor again and see if the text issue is fixed, if not we can go from there.

I have now seen your response on YouTube as well as here. Thank you for responding!

I will fully uninstall via Steam, and then I will run the convertor again once reinstalled. Once done, I will update with the results.

Hello, I am still having the problem.

This is what my game looks like once I get past the splash screens at the beginning. I see the Japanese warning splash screen and the Capcom splash screen indicating that the conversion was a success, but I am left with a screen that looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/5UalbAT

Furthermore, the batch file itself indicates that the conversion was a success: https://imgur.com/a/4QC5QTh

How should I move forward?

(Problem was fixed by downloading the newest version of the converter)