Running a game

Brought back an older game from Japan. Had to go through several steps to get it working.

First, had to setup a Japanese Windows 2000 VM on VMWare Player.

Next, had to go get the Service Pack 4, for the Japanese version (w2ksp4_ja.exe). Then, had to get Windows2000-KB835732-x86-JPN.exe, which for the actual Japanese version you have to change en-us to ja-jp in the URL, otherwise selecting the Japanese version doesn't give you the proper language pack for the install. Now, you can install VMWare tools on the VM, as it requires the KB, and that requires at least SP2, but I couldn't find SP2, only SP4 (which is cumulative). This will enable beyond 256 colors.

Then, had to grab Direct X 8.1b for the graphics.

Also, it required a special game pack, RPGXP_RTP103, which installed some specific DLLs

Finally, this was able to get the game to start up. Now, I'll just have to figure out the translations as I go through the RPG...