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Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games

https://github.com/bquenin/interpreter
88•bane•5d ago

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darcien•1d ago
Nice, I wonder how the banner would work for menu or any complex screen that's not a single sentence.

In the past, I've used MORT to play some Japanese MMO game. In-place overlay makes it easier to actually play the game instead of doing dictionary lookup on the side.

These days I stopped using realtime translator and just embrace the slow pace of learning these languages while enjoying the game story.

MORT: https://github.com/killkimno/MORT

surrTurr•1d ago
Related - this one also works with manga: https://github.com/SethRobinson/UGTLive
TehCorwiz•1d ago
Looks like the main difference is that UGTLive calls out to Gemini. This one runs locally.
haunter•1d ago
I wonder how does it work with multi button multi menu games like Pro Yakyū Spirits
self_awareness•1d ago
> Inplace overlay on Wayland only works with fullscreen windows (Wayland's security model prevents knowing window positions).

"Security is more important than usability. In a perfect world, no one would be able to use anything!"

kalind•1d ago
Nice! I wrote a script similar to this that triggers when I take a screenshot with Flameshot, OCR's the screenshot using an API and opens web page with the OCR'd text. I prefer to use a Japanese to Japanese dictionary when possible which I have as a browser extension (yomitan). I like that this approach doesn't require an external API.
999900000999•1d ago
Very very cool!

I imagine this is more for turn based games though.

butz•1d ago
What translation quality can be expected form such "tiny" model, especially for older games with text only in hiragana? Is there any context memory, or is each sentence translated as standalone?
butz•1d ago
I'll answer to my own question with one fine translation: "It's called a pine tree, and it's a pine tree. It's a pine tree. It's a pine tree. It's a pine tree." Hint: original text had no mention of pine trees. All jokes aside, some sentences were translated correctly and, most important, with only about 1s of delay on CPU.
terrycody•13h ago
Not techy at all, may I ask how to run it on windows 10/11?
terrycody•13h ago
And does it work when you running an amulator inside windows OS?
lunias•2h ago
Awesome stuff. +100 cool points for using a local model

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