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Message: [QUOTE="StopTheCatastrophe, post: 355074, member: 1975"] There's a few reasons why that's impossible, unless people do complicated volunteer programming work to make tools for it. [LIST] [*]When using emulators, your device and OS have no access to what the *text* is in the game when it's displayed, even though it's being displayed. The text can be encoded in crazy ways in the game data, and the emulator replicates how the original hardware processed the code. When you open a text file on your computer, your OS knows exactly how the text was encoded and what text to display... this is not the case for game emulation. This is why you can always copy/paste text in a browser or text file or native app, but you can never copy onscreen text from inside an emulated game like that. (It's a bit like a road-sign in a movie where a character is driving down the highway: yes you see what words are on the sign, but the device playing the video has no idea there's a word there. So if you wanted to translate the road-sign in the movie, it's much more complicated than you might first think. Though with a game, there is ultimately a theoretical method to get the text without OCR (unless the text is a texture), because there is a text encoding somewhere, unlike the movie which is purely a visual file and would require OCR.) [*]In order for your system to know what the text in-game is, you'd need an OCR application that reads what is displayed in a window. Google Lens translate, and Microsoft's similar app, can do this, if you aim them at the screen, for example. And some apps exist where you run it and it translates and correctly formats whatever words were displayed. Or, you'd need a specific tool that was specifically programmed to read the memory address / textbox info in-game and usefully connect that to a database of translations, or something. [*]Also, your description misses the required connection between *when* and *what exact* text corresponds to a person's "Log" for proofread/corrections/suggestions. If a player sees a line in the game and writes a translation for it, how does the system know where to insert/replace the translation? With a TV show, subtitles can simply use timings, because the same words or captions should happen at the same exact moment for everyone. But in a videogame, text will appear at different times for everyone based on what they're doing in the game. So, you can't go by time. The original text can be anywhere within a giant chunk of data. (Or in the case of a texture replacement translation, like can often be used in PCSX2 (PS2 emulator) which has a function for this, the "text" is a picture file in the game data assets, you have to dump the textures and then make a modified texture file with English, and PCSX2 will load the replacement file if configured.) [/LIST] In other words, someone would have to program a tool that does the following: [LIST] [*]Reads the specific textbox or dialog line(?) ID or memory address for the specific game, whenever text is displayed. (But games are all programmed differently.) [*]Dumps the associated original-language text into a file, labelled by the ID [*]Links or pulls from a data entry file or box somewhere where the user typed in their intended translation, with the same ID. [*]With a front-end that a random user can use. (Not the same as a tool that an experienced programmer makes or uses.) [/LIST] A separate OCR app "laid" over the game window is a great solution for translating whatever is on the screen, but if you want people to contribute edits and translations as they go it can't be OCR, it has to be systematically coded to correspond to the correct game data. [/QUOTE]

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