diff --git a/source/game/nds.c b/source/game/nds.c
index 78cddc4..2c0c30b 100644
--- a/source/game/nds.c
+++ b/source/game/nds.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ u32 LoadTwlMetaData(const char* path, TwlHeader* hdr, TwlIconData* icon) {
 u32 GetTwlTitle(char* desc, const TwlIconData* twl_icon) {
     const u16* title = twl_icon->title_eng; // english title
     memset(desc, 0, TWLICON_SIZE_DESC + 1);
-    for (u32 i = 0; i < TWLICON_SIZE_DESC; i++) desc[i] = title[i];
+    for (u32 i = 0; i < TWLICON_SIZE_DESC; i++) desc[i] = (title[i] >= 0x80) ? ' ' : title[i];
     return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/source/game/smdh.c b/source/game/smdh.c
index ce133dc..89ac81b 100644
--- a/source/game/smdh.c
+++ b/source/game/smdh.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #include "smdh.h"
 
-#define SMDH_STRING(str, src, len) for (u32 i = 0; i < len; i++) str[i] = src[i]
+#define SMDH_STRING(str, src, len) for (u32 i = 0; i < len; i++) str[i] = (src[i] >= 0x80) ? ' ' : src[i]
 // shamelessly stolen from bch2obj.py / 3ds_hb_menu :)
 #define SMDH_LUT      0,  1,  8,  9,  2,  3, 10, 11, 16, 17, 24, 25, 18, 19, 26, 27, \
                       4,  5, 12, 13,  6,  7, 14, 15, 20, 21, 28, 29, 22, 23, 30, 31, \
diff --git a/source/virtual/vgame.c b/source/virtual/vgame.c
index 97d875e..3eaef36 100644
--- a/source/virtual/vgame.c
+++ b/source/virtual/vgame.c
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ bool GetVGameLv3Filename(char* name, const VirtualFile* vfile, u32 n_chars) {
     }
     memset(name, 0, n_chars);
     for (u32 i = 0; (i < (n_chars-1)) && (i < name_len); i++)
-        name[i] = wname[i]; // poor mans UTF-16 -> UTF-8
+        name[i] = wname[i]; // poor mans UTF-16 -> UTF-8 (doesn't work proper for special chars)
     
     return true;
 }