Setting up Neko Project 2 with Textractor

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If you are trying to log PC-98 games and have trouble understanding the Japanese menues, having the possibility to quickly translate everything to English can be useful.

"Textractor" is a tool that can hook into various programs and dump the text. It also has a plugin to automatically translate the dumped text. So using Textractor in combination with Neko Project 21/W can make it easier to navigate through the games.

Prequisites

You need:

Setting up Neko Project 21/W

  • start np21w.exe and close it again, so that np21w.ini is written
  • edit np21w.ini and insert the (hidden) option USETHOOK=true to enable support for text hooks
  • optional: insert the option STATSAVE=true to enable the save state menu

<syntaxhighlight lang="diff"> 

[NekoProject21]

+STATSAVE=true +USETHOOK=true 

WindposX=0
WindposY=0
Win_Snap=true

</syntaxhighlight>

Setting up Textractor

  • start np21w.exe again
  • start Textractor.exe
  • in Textractor, click "Attach to game" and select np21w.exe
  • click "Add hook" and type HQ4@0:kernel32.dll:lstrlenW
  • after clicking the "OK" button, it should print Textractor: inserting hook: UserHook#
  • make the game running in NP2 load some text (e.g. load a menu or something)
  • In the drop-down list at the top, go through each of the "UserHook#" entries until you found the correct one.
    It is often the last hook from the list. (W:XXXX:YYYYYYYY:ZZZZZZ:0: UserHook# (HQ4@0:kernel32.dll:lstrlenW))
  • It should now capture most of the text from NP21/W.
  • In the dialog of the Google Translate plugin, you should adjust the language settings to:
    • Translate to: English
    • Translate from: Japanese
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