Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@folly I literally did not understand a word ^^
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I will explain a bit better.
I didn't expect, but it could be quite easy when using just a screenshot made in the normal way.
manually did this test :
- made a screenshot of "oilswell" with the screen "select game with joystick"
- used tesseract to recognise and save the text from the picture
- used "trans"(commandline google translate shell) to read the text file (it recognises my language and translates to that)
- then I can use "xosd-bin" to overlay the text in the game. (tested this program and it works)
Will see if i can automate that. Curious what the result will be.
My script has to look , on the fly, for pictures, delete them, translate and show them. Seems possible !!! -
@folly You're a true computer whiz! I've learnt more about this stuff just chatting with you than I have most of the time I've had the Pi.
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here is a picure from the test :
text size and color can be change, I think. (did not test yet)
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood Figured out the C Issue. For this game, set your Joypad D-Pad to Mouse/Keyboard/Joypad Mapping to Arrow 3Button. Edit : Or is it Keypad 3-button? One of those two work.
Can I just say how much I adore the graphics on this system? That extra resolution is just gorgeous (same for the PC88 to a lesser extent).
Keypad 3-button! Perfect. Really gutted I didn't get there myself though. Great work.
I think it is a good looking machine, hopefully I can make some progress in Night Slave and Rusty now. :)
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Nice to hear it works. Happy playing !
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@folly I've just caught up on all this translation stuff! Would be amazing if it could be done.
I use patches or if it is a one-off like an instruction to change disks that I don't understand, I point a Google Translate camera at the screen. Very unsophisticated system over here!
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@adambegood Excellent, glad you could get it to work! Today's been pretty productive, between Night Slave and getting the FM7 to run decently. Sadly I have to say my attempts to run X1 games in Mess have failed miserably but I'm going to try again tomorrow.
@Folly I take it the red text is the overlay?
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@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I've just caught up on all this translation stuff! Would be amazing if it could be done.
I use patches or if it is a one-off like an instruction to change disks that I don't understand, I point a Google Translate camera at the screen. Very unsophisticated system over here!
Actually, I was thinking that you did it that way.
I don't know how the results will be. But it's worth a shot. Don't you think so ?
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly I take it the red text is the overlay?
Yep.
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@folly Seems like it works, in theory. As most games require you to press a button to get new text, would it be possible to cut down the performance issues by mapping the script to a hotkey combination? Thay way you're only ever processing one frame at a time.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Seems like it works, in theory. As most games require you to press a button to get new text, would it be possible to cut down the performance issues by mapping the script to a hotkey combination? Thay way you're only ever processing one frame at a time.
Exactly. and the hotkey is already there "F8" for making screenshots.
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@folly That's brilliant, then I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly That's brilliant, then I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.
Well, have to go now. Will see how it goes.
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@folly Do let us know. I'll do a post tomorrow about my X1 troubles.
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@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I've just caught up on all this translation stuff! Would be amazing if it could be done.
I use patches or if it is a one-off like an instruction to change disks that I don't understand, I point a Google Translate camera at the screen. Very unsophisticated system over here!
Actually, I was thinking that you did it that way.
I don't know how the results will be. But it's worth a shot. Don't you think so ?
I absolutely think so, imagine being able to play all Japanese games. It would be amazing.
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@adambegood Absolutely. But the other thing to consider is the quality of automatic translations...but when I consider how bad some English localizations were back in the day (Breath of fire.... arrrrrgh) I can't complain ^^
I can't wait to see how this will turn out.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood Absolutely. But the other thing to consider is the quality of automatic translations...but when I consider how bad some English localizations were back in the day (Breath of fire.... arrrrrgh) I can't complain ^^
I can't wait to see how this will turn out.
Yeah I agree. I did think the same but then the quality should get better as time goes on, and having it as an option is still a great thing.
Zero Wing on Megadrive! I watched that intro the other day on my Pi.
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@adambegood Oh man now that's a hilariously horrid localisation. 'All your base are belong to us' ^^
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@zering Got to the first boss on Night Slave. Died.
Played some Chitty Chitty Train, quite fun.
Trying to play Rusty again now, died at the first boss here yesterday also. I think I may not be very good at games.
Edit: got to second level in Rusty! And you can save.
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