User blog:Facto/A problem with RPG Maker 2003

EDIT 2: I have found the issue and have fixed it.

I am currently attempting to translate an English RPG Maker 2003 game into Japanese. This was partially to share the game with the Japanese fandom and as experimentation for if I get to translate other fangames to Japanese. I had all the pictures and everything set up, and all that was left was replacing the text with Japanese.So, as I pasted ミミ into the Hero name slot, the name looked fine on the leftmost list, but appeared as .~.~ in the box I typed into. Curious, I oped the game up in RPG Maker 2003 to see if it had the same issue in-game. Unexpectedly for me, it was the same .~.~ as in the editor.

I have tried to fix this in multiple attempts, each one failing so far. After trying to use RPG Maker Trans on it, the program crashed, mainly due to it being a 2k3 game being edited on a 2k program. I tried copying in the program's own mojibake, but all that came up were ????s. I changed my system locale to English and tried using Applocale to run the programs, but that was even more broken. I even tried opening the files in Wordpad and editing them from there, but that broke it even further. After a ludicrus about of asks onto M256's devblog, It turns out this is a problem only on my side, despite our similar operating systems and program versions.

So I have no clue what to do now. I would appreciate any help given. If I find out while this post is up, I'll be sure to make an edit and make the information public.

Thank you.

EDIT: I have found that the problem is the RPG_RT file not being designed for Japanese, so a Japanese RPG_RT was functingal. However, for this to actually work, I will require a Japanese RPG_RT from RPG Maker 2003. However, the only Japanese fangame I know of which uses 2003 is Delusions of Our Dreams. If anyone knows where I could find an untranslated RPG Maker 2003 RPG_RT.exe file, this would be spectacualr.