I found that both the RPGMaker XP runtime and the Soryu-Emaki game files needed to be extracted from zip with Japanese character encoding. At least one of the install wizards still had garbled characters, but it installed OK. The Locale Emulator just installs as normal, then you right click the Soryu "Game.exe" to do "Locale Emulator > Run in Japanese" (Windows 11 requires you to select "Show More Options" first—thanks Microsoft).
Other notes:
Xbox controller inputs work, though the button mapping is a bit strange for my preferences.
The game window is tiny on my 4K display, but pressing Alt+Enter will toggle fullscreen.
Oddly, when I only extracted RPGMaker XP with Japanese encoding, but not the game, the game actually booted, but then crashed when selecting new game because it could not load audio/image resource files (bad filenames). It also did not recognize Xbox controller inputs.
Bug report for ya. In v108... The shaman came to my camp for the first time, and I lit the lanterns, then he began speaking of the Gardeners. However, after I hit A on the controller to read the next lines, it sped through the rest of the text very quickly until the task completed. I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with my controller, and I was not pressing anything.
I've encountered a softlock during Spiceport City Day 6 playing 0.48a.
Is this a new one?
Played a little bit of it tonight. Pretty cool! I'm interested to know more of Kivu's story.
I tend to play these games with an xinput compatible controller, and it seemed like the basic controls were there but not jump/dash, melee attack, or ranged attack. So I was trying to use two different controls at the same time - controller and keyboard/touchpad. My initial thought on this is the right analog stick can be for melee attacks: push the stick in a direction and it attacks in that direction. Maybe the right analog trigger could be used for ranged attacks. Right shoulder button for jump/dash?
Looking forward to more development!
