No luck. I also tried using SBApplocale and still nothing. I found nothing mentioned on any japanese forums about garbled texts on XP. It's probably broken on non-japanese OS I think, unless someone with an XP os can confirm this.
How about XP? The garbled texts still persist even with my regional language set to Japanese. I tried re-installing the game and my east asian fonts to no avail. I tried messing with game's settings though. It seems every time I change the in-game font to something else the text temporarily...