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In-game translator at your disposal · By Godnoken

struggling to get translator working ^^

A topic by slinksnine created Feb 27, 2025 Views: 219 Replies: 3
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Hey Godnoken, 
god tier product you have here, i think its exactly what i'm looking for to enjoy some untranslated VNs! I grabbed the pro version but i'm having a hard time getting it to work, I hate to bog down the board so I read through every available post to see if there was something I was missing but I couldn't work it out. Any chance you can shed some light? I tried a few different VNs but it seems to be configured and launch properly but my hotkeys don't do anything once its running. 
so far i've-- 
-verified configuration is set to the proper language (japanese-english) trying either the internal or DeepL engine
-set the paths to the games i'm attempting to translate, opening their "config" page and trying either auto or choosing a directX variant
-the games launch, and the debug tool says GameTranslate launched properly 
however, once I get here its like none of the hotkeys are actually doing anything. for what its worth, i'm trying to use the Automatic Window feature but the Fastkey or Hotkey also don't seem to be doing anything for me. 


I'm sure this is user error and something silly i'm overlooking, but I really appreciate if you could point me in the right direction :) 
Thank you for your time!! 

update! i realised my error, i've been attempting to translate games that use Ren'Py to run rather than typical DirectX/OpenGL games. I've gotten it working on other games that utilize the supported engines :) sorry for unnecessary post! thank you again, great product 

Developer

Hi there,

Great news! I looked into Ren'Py and it seems that all games apart from older ones uses some sort of wrapper for OpenGL or DirectX. Hence some of them definitely should work. From the games you got it working on, are any of them made in Ren'Py?

For the other games that don't use OpenGL or DirectX - GameTranslate will eventually have a desktop option, hence you could play any windowed or borderless game and still use the app!

Thank you for the compliments, rest assured it will continue improving! Let me know if you have any issues or suggestions :)

Developer

Hi slinksnine,

The new update is out now, please try it out and let me know how it works out for you. It should no longer be a problem to use the app with Ren'Py games (in windowed and borderless fullscreen mode!)

Thank you! :)