
Without this “quirk”, programs usually can’t find where they need to go. If your file paths don’t have the yen sign, that’s a surefire way to know that your locale is still not in Japanese. To take a random example from my computer, this is how the file path looks for me: Japanese programs do not use the standard \\ and instead use the yen sign. For the purposes of this post, the locale is necessary for file paths. If you have no idea what a locale is, this is likely the step that’s confounding you from installing the Japanese RPG Maker game properly. For Mac users, please skip to the section on EasyRPGMaker or, well, just install Windows lol. If you want to play Japanese RPG Maker games (including ones that are translated) but haven’t switched locales or have no clue what I just said, please look at step 0. This is where things get a bit complicated. Well-known VIPRPGs are accessible and curated on this wiki. But the majority of these games is going to be on sites like and FreeM!. Some games like the English translation of Helen’s Mysterious Castle are found on Steam and even on consoles. You can buy these software on Steam to make games nowadays, but for the purpose of this post I am going to limit to what’s important to the consumer who just wants to play these games. Quite a number of popular and interesting games are made on these engines.

RPG Maker is a successful line of video game creation software developed and published by Enterbrain.
