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The AI translates whole retro games into English for me

He points the AI at a folder holding a game ROM and an emulator and gives it a standing prompt: translate the whole game, keep the text on screen, and change nothing about how the game plays. The AI does the translation and tests it in the emulator itself, and he turns the finished work into a patch file so other players can use the translation without anyone sharing the game itself.

How it works

  1. Put the ROM and emulator in one folder
  2. Point the AI at it with his standing translation prompt
  3. The AI translates the text, watching for screen overflow
  4. It tests the result in the emulator
  5. He makes an IPS or BPS patch file from the two ROMs to share

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent runs the emulator and tests its own translation inside the game, a loop that used to take fan translation teams months.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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