This is just a guess, but it's possible that the game's font files don't contain letters with accent marks. I haven't taken apart the PS2 version of P4 in a long while, but you might be able to replace the font or add in those characters. It might take some more work if the font is in a sprite sheet...

Thanks again for your work on this, Angelic! At this point I'm just about ready to say that this isn't (solely) an encoding problem, but a problem with how the game handles video/video decoding. Pretty funny to see that Atlus tried this themselves, though. And very strange that your barebones encodi...

Thanks for testing, Gershon and Angelic! Angelic, I had a look at that Steam Community page to see what they're doing differently. Looks like I re-encoded at 10Mbps as opposed to the recommended 8Mbps. While Windows shows the original video files at 122 k bps, they're actually ~33Mbps so I can see h...

Hey, thanks Shrine! Appreciate you spreading the word For the re-encoding process I'm importing each video into a Premiere/After Effects project, sending them to the Adobe Media Encoder queue one at a time, then batch exporting that way. Pretty darn clunky, but Handbrake doesn't do WMV. As for expor...

Edit: This method doesn't work, but look below for other potential fixes I'll get right into it. P4GPC videos are WMVs renamed with a .USM file extension, encoded with WMV8. My thinking here is that because WMV7 is less CPU-intensive than WMV8, re-encoding these videos with WMV7 might have a positiv...