text hookers and translating

[Kaito-b]

I wanted to try my hand at translating some games with Atlus. I have a good bit of free time, but I don't know how to hack. I tried using AGTH but It didn't want to work. Are there any others that anyone could recommend?

[Pabloc]

Did you mean Atlas (machine translator)? If yes, then forget about it, you will only waste your time. Those programs simply don't work, you can't translate anything like that.

 

As for hacking, AGTH and ITH are just text hookers - they can only copy the displayed text, nothing else. For translation, you will need special tools that will extract and insert the text from/into the script files. Which program will be necessary varies depending on VN's engine. Some engines already have tools (check TLWiki), some engines don't. If you don't know what to do, it will be easier and faster to find a dedicated hacker to deal with that for you.

 

But again, don't even think of using machine translators.

[kyuuichii]

I agree with Pabloc.

If you have a lot free time, you can learning how to extract the script by yourself. I'm never tried any Atlus game; if you interested you can learning to extracting .iso files here:

http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm

And if you can manage to get the script, you will need other tools for extracting the script files so it can be read with notepad. As far I'm only got otome games script with hkki, so I don't know if hkki will support other than otome games.

 

Then, you can translating them ^w^)/