Download and unzip Chiitrans2.
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Click the exe file.
Click Tools Icon.
Translators tab:
I enable Atlas, Google, Honyaku and Microsoft. You can enable/disable some later once you find which you prefer. You must be online for Chiitrans to communicate with their servers. (Atlas is needed for most of other translators but does not show up in final reading. Google is slightly better at phrasing than Microsoft IMHO but Honyaku is even better - when it actually works.)
On the general tab, I have:
Remove repeating characters
Check for repeating phrases - Aggressive check for flood of text
Replace name suffixes
Exclude speaker names
Cache translations
Place new translations after existing
Display original text
Show furigana - use hiragana - include okurigana
Enable clipboard monitoring - Only translate text with japanese characters
You can experiment with these latter... Click OK.
I size Chiitrans2 window about 3 inches wide and full height of screen. I resize game to fit rest of screen width. (I use ResizeEnable.)
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Click bright green icon to run game. Browse to game exe file and click OK. You won't need AGTH key or switches for most games and default 3rd option should be "Run through AGTH". Program will remember location of all games you run.
If you get a flood of irrelevant junk, click Binoculars and deselect threads that give you that junk. Or you may get repeat translations from different threads - deselect all but one. Some games run fine as-is, some you need to select/deselect threads each run.
Advanced hints:
For dialogue selections where you need to make a choice. Highlight each choice, right click and translate by itself.
If link to translator services times out, select last phrase, right click and click translate with all. This seems to kickstart connection.
In item/skill lists and such, fast scrolling seems to produce a jumbled mess. Once you think you found item, scroll to next or previous and back to get a clear translation of that item.
Good luck.
