Here are how my physical cables/boxes are setup for “camera mode”. If translated as dialog, it would look and read very badly. For example, options on a menu shouldn’t be translated all together ( Run Attack Use Item), but little pieces separately like “Run”, “Attack”, “Use item” and overlaid exactly over the original positions. If a section isn’t determined to be dialog, “Line by line” is used. The green text means it is being treated as “dialog” using its weighting system to decide what is/isn’t dialog. In the video above, you’ll notice some translated text is white and some is green. Can drag a rectangle to only translate a small area (Ctrl-F10 by default).(Added in later versions) Can read the dialog outloud in either the original or translated language.Controlled by hotkeys (desktop mode) or a control pad (capture mode, this is where I’m playing on a real console but have a second PC controller to control the translation stuff).Can translate any language to any language without needing any local data as Google is doing all the work, can handle rendering Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc (The font I used is this one ).Allows copy/pasting the original language or looking up a kanji by clicking on it.Overlays the frozen frame and translations over the gameplay HDMI signal.Studies the layout and decides which text is dialog and which bits should be translated “line by line”.Snaps a picture from the HDMI signal, sends it to google to be analyzed for text in any language.UGT 0.62 released – now includes a hotkey for drag-rect selection and support for rendering Hindi /6DdZfBAS87- Seth A Robinson April 12, 2020 So I wrote something to do the job called UGT ( Universal Game Translator) – you can download it near the bottom of this post if you want to try it. Font issues, weak OCR, and nothing built to work on an agnostic HDMI signal so I could do live translation while playing on real game consoles. I tried a couple utilities out there that might have worked for at least emulator content on the desktop, but they all had problems. Why isn’t there a Google Translate for the PC?! (don’t judge me!) I messed around with using Google Translate on my phone to help out, but that’s annoying and slow to try to use for games. Despite living here over fifteen years, my Japanese reading skills are not great. Example haul – I got everything in this picture for $25 US! Well, plus another $11 for shipping.

Japanese image translator