Import Gaming - Tools and Techniques

[matt]

I thought it would be useful to share apps, tools and techniques that can be used to make our hobby a little easier. None of these are silver bullets, but together they make spelunking for import gaming information a whole lot easier.

Websites

• Google Translate
  • whole web page
  • selected paragraphs
  • handwritten content
• Yandex Translate
  • whole web page
  • selected paragraphs
  • handwritten content
  • uploaded images!
• Google Drive
  • extract text from images
• Google Docs
  • translate documents
• The Way Back Machine
  • browse old versions of websites
  • find old versions of linked content
• Internet Archive
  • historic files
  • historic scans
  • historic games, playable in-browser via emulation
• eBay USA or UK etc
  • buy, sell, check prices
• Price Charting
  • check historic pricing and trends

iOS

• Google Translate or Yandex Translate
  • text in photos and screenshots
  • text in live camera
  • pasted text
  • website URL
• Shortcuts (formerly Workflow)
  • custom website searches, without leaving page https://i.imgur.com/WliwUyI
  • translate selection via service, without leaving the page https://imgur.com/a/5ai24Xw
  • translate direction via website, new tab https://imgur.com/a/nojusTQ
  • generate QR code from URL, savable to photos https://imgur.com/a/PvEZOrX
• Bing Translate
  • translate web page in-place, without leaving page https://imgur.com/a/Kp1yJ1Y

[harborline_765]

Very nice thread. I need to get some of those Workflows onto my phone.

[matt]

Great example of using the Google Translate app on a Japanese manual.

Arcade Game/PCB Collecting: A Thread for Gamers With More Money Than Sense

Can anyone read Japanese? Or is pretty knowledgeable about electronics? I’m trying to get a replacement knob/pot for the power supply on this Super Neo 29. It’s #6 in the manual below. I’m guessing it adjusts the 5V, but I don’t know what type of replacement potentiometer to get. This one used to allow for a philips head to adjust it, but the spinning portion fell out. [image] [image]

[matt]

How to extract text from an image and translate using Google Drive & Docs

1. Upload the image to your Google Drive
2. Right click image and choose Open with > Google Docs

A new document will be created containing the image and extracted text

3. In Google Docs choose Tools > Translate document… and choose your target language

A second document will be created with the translated text

Done!

Example results…

• original photo (downsized by forum software)
  

  

• extracted (with manual formatting corrections)
  

  

• translated (to be cross referenced & checked!)
  

  

I also do a second translation using copy and paste of the text into Google Translate, the results are often subtly different and you are allowed to see alternative translations for each word/phrase/line

I then submit Staff lists like this to MobyGames so that everybody can benefit.

[Shinriji]

Very nice. When I found out that google translator app was so easy to use, I translated and add the Art of Fighting prologue manga to a replacement booklet that I made for my copy of AOF CD.

Translated Scan (Portuguese)

Printed version

[matt]

Nice touch! Well done

[Shinriji]

Retranslated the prologue story from Samurai Shodown 3. Turns out that the English translation is more or less faithfull to the original source, but they cutted this amazing Zankuro illustration, so I’m gonna replace that page.

PS - Yep, I did it on paint. Don’t @ me.

[Shinriji]

Printed version.