User blog comment:Velt211/Gakuen Drifting Story 2 Translation/@comment-31720212-20200316090122/@comment-40164738-20200317191758

I think you're right on that. I'm at 41 and both 40-41 showed observable effects (apart from crashing). 40 skipped the CG drawing and 41 seems to have made a new line. Guess those characters are being used as commands. I'm guessing anything from 20 up till the Japanese characters are commands.

I'm going to go through the entire character set just to see. I guess it could technically be possible to change the japanese characters to roman, as they'd occupy a different hex value (and thus technically still the JP characters). I'll probably look into that myself. seems to actually be a decent amount of info on that, so I might figure it out. Obviously all text will be a mess then, but plenty of space (for characters). Not so sure if it won't break everything though as it doesn't make English shorter.

I also forgot to check, but that means 41 corresponds to an A, no matter if everything is 2 hex rows up or not, an A or a. I can imagine the r is a line break then, but I'll see about that.