Translate games on the fly

AdamBeGood

@folly Have you tried out their translation system yet? Interested to know what you think of it.

Clyde

@folly said in Translate games on the fly:

Next time, before I start, I will have a better look in the forums. :-)

But, along the way I learned quite some stuff. ;-)

That's what I like about hobbies like this – fun and learning in one go. 😁 Kudos for sharing your work with us. 👍

Folly

@adambegood said in Translate games on the fly:

@folly Have you tried out their translation system yet? Interested to know what you think of it.

I have to read a lot of stuff.

configs
translator links
accounts
API's
etc.

First impression looks like a real nightmare :(

Will take quite a lot of time to figure that out, I guess.

Folly

@clyde said in Translate games on the fly:

@folly said in Translate games on the fly:

Next time, before I start, I will have a better look in the forums. :-)

But, along the way I learned quite some stuff. ;-)

That's what I like about hobbies like this – fun and learning in one go. 😁 Kudos for sharing your work with us. 👍

Thanks for your Kudos.

I agree, we have to think in ideas.
That can brings us much further.

I will try some other stuff, with my idea.
On the long run, you could make quite a simple offline translator.

Another idea I have is :
If you have Japanese filenames, these can be translated with the translation-shell and then be renamed.
That's also very nice.

mitu

@folly said in Translate games on the fly:

First impression looks like a real nightmare :(

I think all I needed to add to retroarch.cfg was:

ai_service_enable = "true"
ai_service_mode = "0"
ai_service_pause = "true"
ai_service_source_lang = "0"
ai_service_target_lang = "1"
ai_service_url = "http://ztranslate.net/service?api_key=HEREISMYKEY"
input_ai_service = "p"

and then pressing P on the keyboard triggered the translation.

AdamBeGood

@mitu said in Translate games on the fly:

@folly said in Translate games on the fly:

First impression looks like a real nightmare :(

I think all I needed to add to retroarch.cfg was:
ai_service_enable = "true"
ai_service_mode = "0"
ai_service_pause = "true"
ai_service_source_lang = "0"
ai_service_target_lang = "1"
ai_service_url = "http://ztranslate.net/service?api_key=HEREISMYKEY"
input_ai_service = "p"
and then pressing P on the keyboard triggered the translation.

And that is the only step that needs to be followed? I'll definitely try this out then!

Folly

@mitu @AdamBeGood @Clyde

Tested it, and it works. :)
WOW. Thats awesome. Never thought this would be possible.

Still have somewhat a problem with my hotkey.
But I will test a bit more.

edit (issue) :

It seems the AI "p" key is in conflict with the "pause" function.
Athough it's commented in the retroarch.cfg like this :

# input_pause_toggle = p

When I remove the AI_..... lines, translation does not work, but the pause hotbutton does (while commented ?)

Anyone have an idea how this is possible ?
This config is edited :
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

edit (fix) :

Changed (input_ai_service = "p") into this (input_ai_service = "t")

No conficts anymore ! :-)

Now we use the "t" to "translate", isn't that convenient !

ai_service_enable = "true"
ai_service_mode = "0"
ai_service_pause = "true"
ai_service_source_lang = "0"
ai_service_target_lang = "1"
ai_service_url = "http://ztranslate.net/service?api_key=HEREISMYKEY"
input_ai_service = "t"

Folly

And now .....

A few pictures ! (Ys (pc88 version))

before and after :

Zering

@folly That is AWESOME.

Are there still limits on how much translating we can do?

Folly

@zering said in Translate games on the fly:

@folly That is AWESOME.

Are there still limits on how much translating we can do?

It still seems to work fine. No limits encountered yet.

With PC98 I had a few crashes though, when I was in DOS.
But I use the "tab" key for enabeling the hotkeys.
That key also responds as keyboard input in some emulators.
Perhaps it conflicts a bit.
Don't actually know.

Overall it seems to work great :)

Are you going to try this ?

Zering

@folly Eventually, yes, but as I've said on a previous thread I've had a disk failure so I'm focusing on that (I hate myself for having 2 TB of Roms...).
At the moment I don't have any untranslated games I can play ^^

Folly

@zering said in Translate games on the fly:

@folly Eventually, yes, but as I've said on a previous thread I've had a disk failure so I'm focusing on that (I hate myself for having 2 TB of Roms...).
At the moment I don't have any untranslated games I can play ^^

Yes, I am aware of that. Good luck with that.
If your ready, let me know what you think of it.
Would like to hear your opinion.

Zering

@folly I'll have to find an untranslated game that I don't have too many expectations for, so I can gauge the quality of the translation and make sure I can actually get the gist of things ;)

Folly

@zering said in Translate games on the fly:

@folly I'll have to find an untranslated game that I don't have too many expectations for, so I can gauge the quality of the translation and make sure I can actually get the gist of things ;)

Well, It already makes a big difference for menu's.
That I know.

AdamBeGood

Mine doesn't seem to work - I've tried putting it into the /all/ retroarch.cfg, and then I tried the pc98 and pc88 ones as well, just in case that works.

It is literally just putting the text into that file isn't it? Or are there other steps also?

Here is my retroarch.cfg:

https://pastebin.com/1VzG5U4w

saccublenda

@adambegood I think you have to replace HEREISMYKEY with the actual key that you get when you register to the website.

AdamBeGood

@saccublenda said in Translate games on the fly:

@adambegood I think you have to replace HEREISMYKEY with the actual key that you get when you register to the website.

Great shout! I've amended that now, and still no joy. I am focusing on PC98 so far as that is where I have a few games I'd like to try. I tried putting the code into /pc98/retroarch.cfg also, but that didn't do it.

Here's my PC98 config: https://pastebin.com/GNisWHPH

I am pressing the keyboard hotkey and the 't' key.

Edit: let me have a look at this in the morning, I have had a read around the issue now and hopefully can try some things out.

mitu

@adambegood said in Translate games on the fly:

Here's my PC98 config: https://pastebin.com/GNisWHPH

3rd line from the config says:

ai_service_enable = false

So the translation service is disabled.

AdamBeGood

@mitu said in Translate games on the fly:

@adambegood said in Translate games on the fly:

Here's my PC98 config: https://pastebin.com/GNisWHPH

3rd line from the config says:

ai_service_enable = false

So the translation service is disabled.

Derp.

This is why I said I'd look tomorrow, I knew I would have done something stupid.

In my defence, my daughter is sleeping poorly so I am not at 100% over here.

I need to work out if I need to enable this for each system then, surely if the global settings are being overridden by this false line on each individual system setting then I need to edit each system config that I want to use. Don't answer that! I'll work it out.

Thanks very much, @mitu !

Edit: I haven't worked out the global/individual system issue yet, but I have this working on PC98. Clever stuff!

Folly

Hi all !

ai_service_mode = "1"
ai_service_pause = "false"

I was experimenting with translation option again.
When changing the above settings it does not pause and speaks directly the translation to you.

It's also possible to choose many input/output languages.

ai_service_source_lang = "0"
ai_service_target_lang = "1"

0= not set
1= English
2= Spanish
3= French
4= Italian
5= German
6= Japanese
7= Dutch
etc.... and much more.

Perhaps also interesting for you @dmmarti !