I recently converted from Anki to JPDB and they have a function to extract unique words from text files and create flashcards from them. I’ve heard the following games are great for early learners.
Youkai Watch (I have physical copy + digital rom)
Ni no Kuni (PC Steam International Release)
Dragon Quest XI (PC Steam Japanese Release)
My question is how do you extract the game text from the game files? (Or if someone has already done this with the Japanese text where would I find it?)
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How to extract text would vary a lot per game depending on how the game stores data.
Here are scripts for many games including some of the Dragon Quest games
https://old.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/54haix/a_dump_of_jrpg_japanese_scripts/
However this post is a couple years old and some of the links are dead, so maybe someone can post a more updated list.
There’s no “way” to extract text from game files.
For PC games, I recommend snooping around the data files in your install directories. A lot of times there are plain human-readable database files. Sometimes they’re in a very standard database file format you can read with a tool you can find on the internet. If you still can’t find anything, google around and see if anyone has a script extractor or anything of the sort for that particular game.
For console games, your only real option is gonna be finding tools other people have made for the game, or finding dumps on the internet.
The last option is to learn to reverse engineer binary files.
Can you tell us how to convert anki files to jpdb? Thank you
It really is going to depend on the game and if you want to extract the whole script or just some bits to study.
For manual capture of short parts of text on screen you can try Capture2Text (https://capture2text.sourceforge.net/)