Hello there !
When I started to learn japanese, one of the goal was to be able to play or replay some jrpgs. However when I started learning, there wasn’t much available. Just one topic with links for 10 game scripts. So I started to look for them and collect them.
\- Sometimes, somebody made the dump of the game, and the text was available, sometimes I did it myself.
\- For Animal Crossing, and Persona 5 for example, I asked on this subreddit and thanks to collective effort, we got something usable.
\- The latest addition being Unicorn Ovelord, there’s now more than a hundred availlable.
Here’s the [link](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ukDIWSkh_xvpppPbgs1nUR2kaEwFaWlsJgZUlb9LuTs/edit#gid=0).
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Now, be aware that they come in different shapes:
\- A transcript will be in chronological order, as you play the game.
\- A game dump will be in a random order (usually by locations)
How to extract the text, and how usable it is, will vary from game to game.
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In some cases, script for both japanese and english align, so I was able make spreadhseet with one column for each, making it easy to use as you play the game.
[Link](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Uq1RleAXVwl3TnnpY7Pczimh-mhF-khR?usp=drive_link).
That’s mostly the pokemon games, Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, Persona. In some cases, since I’ve made anki decks, I realigned the text manually (Ni No Kuni, Yo-Kai Watch, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger…)
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So, how to use ?
We now have OCR or text hooker that can help you, but otherwise, if you want to know the definition of a word, you can use Ctrl+F to look for the sentence. If you combine it with 10ten or other online dictionnary, game becomes easier to play. When I could, I added a column for the location of the text to find things more easily.
I also use the text to find the difficulty of the game, or use Morphman to learn new words based on frequency.
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If you fill you can improve on it, and want to be able to edit the spreadsheet so that it can help other people, let me know.
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I hope you find this useful.
Cheers,
by Jo-Mako