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frankweigt 21 May, 2024 @ 6:17pm
Change to japanese launguage
Hello, I have already played through Dragon Quest once on Playstation. I bought the Definitve Edition on Steam and now wanted to play this Game in Japanese. However, there is a problem. I can change the language to Japanese via Steam option but everthing remains in English. I'm from Germany and I'm not sure if it's because of a PAL version or somthing like that. The following languages are selectable : English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spain, Simplified/Traditional Chinese and Japanese. When I select Korean, everything is displayed in Korean including the script but when I select Japanese, still remains in English. I've verified the gamefiles for errors and even reinstalled it. Does anyone else have this porblem?
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Koby 21 May, 2024 @ 6:20pm 
Take a look at the store page. This build of the game does not have Japanese interface or subtitles.
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frankweigt 21 May, 2024 @ 6:32pm 
Very sad because this game is from Japan.
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Boksha 22 May, 2024 @ 5:53pm 
Yeah, it's an absolute scam. There's a mod to put Japanese text in the game ( https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonquestxisdefinitiveedition/mods/78 ) but it's not 100% complete (in particular, text in 2-D mode is completely broken, 2-D mode menus are untranslated, you still see the English localized names in battle and certain menus even in 3-D mode, and a lot of things that are saved as images are still in English).

There's no way to get the Japanese version without buying it in Japan. Really damn stupid.
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OyajiBR☕ 31 May, 2024 @ 5:03pm 
What? There is no Japanese voice? Wow, I was willing to play the game without Portuguese subtitles (since late 2000s rarely AAA games come to Brazil without Portuguese), but without the original language I totally pass. Better try the 3DS version on RetroArch.
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Koby 31 May, 2024 @ 6:43pm 
Originally posted by OyajiBR☕:
What? There is no Japanese voice? Wow, I was willing to play the game without Portuguese subtitles (since late 2000s rarely AAA games come to Brazil without Portuguese), but without the original language I totally pass. Better try the 3DS version on RetroArch.
It has Japanese audio. It just doesn't have Japanese text.
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OyajiBR☕ 31 May, 2024 @ 7:19pm 
Originally posted by Koby:
Originally posted by OyajiBR☕:
What? There is no Japanese voice? Wow, I was willing to play the game without Portuguese subtitles (since late 2000s rarely AAA games come to Brazil without Portuguese), but without the original language I totally pass. Better try the 3DS version on RetroArch.
It has Japanese audio. It just doesn't have Japanese text.
Oh, my mistake. Thank you.
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Chaos 混沌 カオス 10 Jun, 2024 @ 4:29pm 
The reason why they do this is because so they can price gouge their crap in their Japanese homeland.

Discounts and deals are more common outside of Japan than inside Japan, can't have their own people "reverse importing" after all.
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Jean 12 Jun, 2024 @ 11:53pm 
Originally posted by OyajiBR☕:
Originally posted by Koby:
It has Japanese audio. It just doesn't have Japanese text.
Oh, my mistake. Thank you.
Also, the english dub is the "original language" as far as dubs go, as the original Japanese game never had a dub. But yes, this game features both audios lol
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Chaos 混沌 カオス 13 Jun, 2024 @ 7:52am 
Originally posted by gayass lizard:
Also, the english dub is the "original language" as far as dubs go, as the original Japanese game never had a dub. But yes, this game features both audios lol
People considering the ENglish dub is the "original language" as if that somehow in itself elevates its value is probably a good way to gauge who are the dub peasants. If the translation, sorry, lolcowlization is faithful, then they might have a point, but it's very obviously not. Only 1 out of 8 party member kept their Japanese name lmao.
Last edited by Chaos 混沌 カオス; 13 Jun, 2024 @ 7:53am
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ライラ 2 Jul, 2024 @ 5:13am 
とんでもないじゃないですか？
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LordKaiserX0 2 Jul, 2024 @ 9:49am 
The Japanese use the same store on Steam as ours?
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Ringlet 26 Sep, 2024 @ 5:08pm 
FYI.

PC Game Pass version provides you full japanese experience. By changing windows' locale to Japan before launching the game.
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Baka 4 Oct, 2024 @ 5:02am 
Originally posted by Boksha:
Yeah, it's an absolute scam. There's a mod to put Japanese text in the game ( https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonquestxisdefinitiveedition/mods/78 ) but it's not 100% complete (in particular, text in 2-D mode is completely broken, 2-D mode menus are untranslated, you still see the English localized names in battle and certain menus even in 3-D mode, and a lot of things that are saved as images are still in English).

There's no way to get the Japanese version without buying it in Japan. Really damn stupid.
Will this mod prevent steam achievements? I've heard that's an issue with some games but I'm not into mods at all so I'm not sure :^)
Last edited by Baka; 4 Oct, 2024 @ 5:03am
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Melodia 4 Oct, 2024 @ 6:40am 
Originally posted by Baka:
Will this mod prevent steam achievements? I've heard that's an issue with some games but I'm not into mods at all so I'm not sure :^)

There's very few games where it'll happen. Those games will be ones where mod support is built in. For the majority of games, the achievement has no way of knowing mods are a thing.
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TwoFaceTony 4 Oct, 2024 @ 7:55pm 
There's actually quite a few games only have Japanese voices/interface for customers in Japan. I assume there's some sort of strange labour laws they have that prevent some language stuff from being available internationally.
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