Chinese Character Display On Mz-nh1

[cchan]

hi,

anyone able to get the Hi-MD MZ-NH1 to display chinese characters on the remote?

i can get sonicstage to display chinese characters but once i transfer it onto the player, it doesnt come up, displaying a string of nonsense "£$$^&£$%".

any help would be very much appreciated.

cheers,

chee

[Ishiyoshi]

hi,

anyone able to get the Hi-MD MZ-NH1 to display chinese characters on the remote?

i can get sonicstage to display chinese characters but once i transfer it onto the player, it doesnt come up, displaying a string of nonsense "£$$^&£$%".

any help would be very much appreciated.

cheers,

chee

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First of all, which remote did you employ with the NH1 - RM-MC40ELK or the MC40EL? If your remote is the RM-MC40EL, that explains the "????" text. However, if your remote is the RM-MC40ELK, you may need to edit the registry of SonicStage to enable multi-byte titling so that Chinese text will be properly transferred over to the MD.

[kiryen]

hi,

anyone able to get the Hi-MD MZ-NH1 to display chinese characters on the remote?

i can get sonicstage to display chinese characters but once i transfer it onto the player, it doesnt come up, displaying a string of nonsense "£$$^&£$%".

any help would be very much appreciated.

cheers,

chee

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Are you using the JP or EN version of SonicStage?

I haven't had any success to get japanese to display correctly in EN SonicStage (though I haven't tried transferring the files to see whether or not they end up correctly on the unit)

Also, SonicStage and NH1 only support kanji, not all chinese characters.

Furthermore, you have to enter the kanji in japanese IME, not chinese.

any of those three things might be the problem.

as a general recommendation, i suggest you

1. Download the JP version of SS, here.

it's comes with mora, the JP version of Sony's connect service, but you can just set it to open up to my library if you don't use it. (I can't find the official one, and seeing as how sony doesn't appear to make it readily available, I'm not going to bother.)

2. Once you've done that, you can either change your regional setting to Japanese and leave it that way or you can download microsoft's applocale (link here.)

3. If you're not running a JP version of windows (not just the regional setting, but where you purchased it), you'll need to perform the following steps:

a. Right-click the SS Installer file, you should see an option which says something to the effect of "Extract to SonicStageInstaller\". Do it.

b. Open the file SetupSS.ini in the folder, double clicking should work, otherwise, right-click it and select "Edit".

c. Look for a line which starts "supportoslang..." it should be the 12th line down. Delete "Japanese" and replace it with "English".

d. Save your changes and close the file.

4. If you changed your regional setting, just run the SSInstaller file. If not, run Applocale and point it to either the SonicStageInstaller.exe file (or, if you performed step 3, SonicStageInstaller\SetupSS.exe). Select Japanese(日本語) as the language and just click through the various menus.

5. Once SS is installed, you might want to consider making a shortcut to SS. Open Applocale, and browse to the omgjbox.exe file (generally "C:\Program Files\Sony\SonicStage\Omgjbox.exe"). Click through the screens until you get to Create a shortcut to always run thsi application. Check the box and the shortcut will be created.

You'll be bugged about AppLocale everytime you open up SS, but it's the only way for it to work that I've found, for some reason, SonicStage didn't like it when I changed my regional settings for the install and actually running SS (Only partial Japanese text support, some text shows up as "??????".)

Hope that helps.

Edit: Further note about AppLocale, though I don't have any other programs which require a different codepage than English, you could use it for just about any program which turns up as gibberish in Windows.

Edited March 17, 2005 by kiryen

[Christopher]

What a nice first post, kiryen! Welcome aboard.

[fongio]

hi,

anyone able to get the Hi-MD MZ-NH1 to display chinese characters on the remote?

i can get sonicstage to display chinese characters but once i transfer it onto the player, it doesnt come up, displaying a string of nonsense "£$$^&£$%".

any help would be very much appreciated.

cheers,

chee

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Hi cchan

Sorry I can't help with your problem.

However, I'd like to ask how you've managed to get SonicStage to display chinese characters.

I've recently purchased a NW-HD3 which came with SS 2.3, but I can't get it to display chinese. I've also tried using SS 3.0 and it still doesn't work.

I also use MusicMatch Jukebox 10 on the same PC and it displays chinese no problem, so the problem is not my PC.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Am using Windows XP Home Edition (english version)

Cheers

Fongy

[yilin]

Well, there is a way to solve it.--- Service mode

1. turn HOLD on

2. Hold the GROUP button. Press ff ff fr fr ff fr ff fr pause pause

3. Now you enter the Engineering mode.

4. Press vol+ "0000 Manual" appears

5. press ff "0100 mt" appears, press again, you can see 0110 NV

6. one more ff button, you can see 0111. Keep pressing the key, until you see 0113, you will notice that there are 6 digis number after 0113.

We only focus on the last 2 digis. It decides the language version.

Change it by pressing the vol- 81 is the Euro ver. and the Chinese ver. is 05. Press pause to save the change. take out the Battery to quit the Service Mode.

Note: Press STOP button if you made any mistake.

Hope this can help someone out.

Edited April 10, 2005 by yilin