Turns out you have to set your computer to operate in Japanese for it to work. It’s usually not a problem even for those who can’t read Japanese because most things will come up in English anyway, except for maybe iTunes and a couple of other programs’ dialogue boxes.

If you’re running Vista or 7, go to your control panel, regional and language settings, click the Administrative tab, and change your System Locale to Japan. It helps to have the IME active as well so you can type in Japanese.

For some reason, Japan doesn’t like any browser but IE, so if you’re using Firefox, Chrome, or any other freeware browser, you’ll have to suck it up and use IE for this. Make sure you have a version later than 6. If you’re on a Mac without a windows partition, you’re screwed as far as this game goes.

Make sure you allow it to install everything it needs and always launch from the IE window at the big red button (after you log in, of course). Hope that helps!

I like both, Tenhou and Janryumon very much, and I appreciate your help. I’m quite fresh new to “online” Mahjong, even though I play quite often offline. I’m becoming very fond of playing online, though. I’ll be seeing you around then. Good day~

You don’t have to pay for tenhou, you just need to change the client mode to economy. Refer to http://arcturus.su/tenhou/login.html on how to change it.

Anyways, I could register and play without any trouble. It’s actually a great server to play on. Even with my 256mb of RAM, it runs smoothly. Not as smoothly as Tenhou would perhaps, but this does have a lot of additions such as the hands, the glow and the lightnings. It’s a perfectly portable MJ for the most part.

Only trouble, as usual, people who think they are Naki no Ryu and call every tile even when they stop multiplying. Only came accross two, but still. As I go up in ranking they’ll probably won’t be a problem.

Thanks so much. This became my favorite server thus far (besides Tenhou, but I don’t really have a credit card to keep it up for longer than the trial version every time). I was then looking for a mahjong server that’s free, without any troubles and where I feel comfortable.

Osamu’s blog has brought to me only great things. Kudos for the posters.

As far as the points thing go. It takes points from your account when you play that you need to charge, but there is a button for it (so no payment required). It charges 7000 points and when your points drop below 4999 you need to recharge. When this happens, just click the button (in your account on the plaync shop).

As for a Finnish aquintance of mine, well, it didn´t load for him.

I can’t access the site either – without a proxy that is – but I was able to access it through the internet at my school and luckily from one of my friends computer. I can use a proxy to get to the main page, but the registration doesn’t work. I tried installing the JanRyuMon program by getting the exe from my friends PC – but that didn’t work either. I really want to be able to play at this site and don’t want to go to my friends place everytime to do so!

If contacting PlayNC will solve the problem, I’d be glad to do it but I doubt my Japanese will be enough. Could someone with more fluent in Japanese contact them?

My impression of the site was great. It was a lot better than I expected. I especially liked the fact that the PC reads out the han values of the hand, and the animations for limit hands are awesome! And finally the animations of drawing a tile after you riichi are my favourite. It feels just like the real thing!