Final Fantasy I

[Fable]

I was playing it and all of a sudden all of the words became a mess of numbers and stuff! I couldn't read it! NOOOOO!!!!!!

[Jale]

Have you tried with another ROM or ROM version?

[Fable]

yeah..... teh sucks still

[belmont]

This happens because you have a rom image that it is not completely in English.
Download the rom from somewhere else.

[LoGoS_dArK]

yeah or find a rom patch for the game, that will give you full translation of your rom!!

[G®£gø®¥]

are you in a town called lefein when this happens?????

[Fable]

not really.... I'm not sure where I am... but all the villagers talk like that.

[G®£gø®¥]

your not far enough in the game, you need to go to the sea shrine and find a stone tablet which lets you understand the people in this town

[Fable]

they talked fine before.... dunno why tho...

[TiredBoy]

It shouldn't be a problem with his being in Lefein, at least not with scrambled numbers and stuff. And since FF1 has been brought over portside three times, I doubt there's a need for a translation patch. It'd be wierd enough finding a J version. I can't remember which emulators all this, but I believe you may be able to replace ROMs while maintaining save states or even the actual saved files.

Try looking for either a GBA version (Dawn of Souls) or the U.S. NES ROM/equivalent.