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Originally posted by bishounen_blue:
Illusion's website will redirect you away from their download's page if they dectect that you don't have a Japanese system. That's because they don't want to waste their bandwidth on people who most likely not be customers. But the games themselves work find on an Enlgish OS.
Well, they'll work, but only if you change the non-unicode setting to Japanese. That's certainly something that only an advanced user would think to do, and many Illusion games don't really require any knowledge of Japanese to enjoy the games, making them suitable for an English gamer without a translation (or without Japanese fonts displayed correctly). That, together with the download limitation you pointed out, gives me the overall impression that Illusion doesn't want English users to be playing their games. And since extra sales are never a bad thing, what better reason to lock English players out than piracy?
Edit: Many Japanese games work just fine without switching the non-unicode setting to Japanese. The fonts just don't display correctly.
[This message has been edited by Dark_Shiki (edited 05-25-2005).]