Are there some Japanese exclusive games from days gone by that you always wish you could've played? Did your favourite obscure franchise get a game release in Japan but never saw localization or a fan made translation hack? Well it's your lucky day.

Interpreter is a new project that can live-translate Japanese text in retro games, all offline and without a required internet connection.

The application is optimized for retro games that use traditional pixel-based fonts and uses MeikiOCR. The tool offers two overlay modes - a simple banner overlay as seen above or by replacing text directly over the original Japanese text at OCR-detected positions.

Windows, macOS and Linux installers are available, and after the initial model is downloaded, everything runs offline for privacy and speed.

GitHub source

 

[lwiz]

Seems like your computer cannot access (at least via Powershell) github in encrypted (https) mode. Which version of Windows? Can you open the url in the command line on web browser?

 

[Xdqwerty]

Which version of Windows?

8.1

Can you open the url in the command line on web browser?

Yup

 

[lwiz]

Could be that the certificates powershell libraries use (instead of the browser ones) are too old, causing the issue due OS being unsupported these days.

There might be ways the get new certificates for the powershell and instructions for installing those from somewhere in the net.

 

[Xdqwerty]

There might be ways the get new certificates for the powershell and instructions for installing those from somewhere in the net.

how? im not good at this

 

[lwiz]

how? im not good at this

Probably by installing OpenSSL and setting that as default on system level. I guess the problem isn't necessarily the certificates, but missing TLS1.3 support. Sadly haven't got the time atm to help further than possible pointers for further study.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Probably by installing OpenSSL and setting that as default on system level. I guess the problem isn't necessarily the certificates, but missing TLS1.3 support. Sadly haven't got the time atm to help further than possible pointers for further study.

uhhhhhhhhhhh I have no idea about this so ill note it for later

 

[LoggerMan]

What a time to be alive. I guess a lot of devoted translators are going to be out of a job soon. Only the best interpreters will survive.

 

[twocows]

Thanks for the honesty, but if you are the one making this news post, why are we responsible for the correctness of the information it contains?

Yeah, you should ask for a refund.

Neat tool by the way, I'll probably grab this one. Thanks for the article.

 

[Naster]

what's that setup ?

iphone 8 and ps1

 

[mspy]

AFAIK the best free offline AI translator for Japanese is Sugoi.
It has a package that can translate all sorts of media (manga, games, videos, audio, etc)
They have a big community on discord as stated here https://www.patreon.com/mingshiba/about

 

[LoggerMan]

Thinking about this som more, the future probably is something like this running on AR glasses, and it translates what you are looking at in real time, with graphics that blend in the same style.