AGTH with ai sp@ce
As some of you who play ai sp@ce may be aware, the font used for in-game dialog is horrible. All too often, kanji with many strokes become unreadable blobs.
If you’re familiar enough with the kanji to be able to read it anyway, you’re okay. However, if you’re having to look up the kanji for any reason, it’s going to be almost impossible to do so. That is why I started looking into ways I could get at the text being displayed directly. In my searching, I found AGTH.
AGTH, which stands for Anime Game Text Hooker, is a program that hooks into Japanese games and grabs the text out of them as it is displayed on-screen. You can download it at the official website. The official help thread is located at Hongfire.
I use this not only for logging purposes (it’s great for keeping track of what NPCs said earlier during quests), but also to ease translation of the text. Since I can just copy and paste the text into sites such as WWWJDIC, it makes looking up unfamiliar words that much faster and easier.
If you are interested in using AGTH with ai sp@ce, I have a forum thread on this in the Crunchyroll ai sp@ce group forums. This thread is where I post the latest /h (hook) parameter for AGTH to work with ai sp@ce, and I try to update it each time the ai sp@ce client is updated, as the address to hook into moves with each update. If you have trouble getting AGTH to work specifically with ai sp@ce, I can also try and help you with those issues in that forum thread.
Tags: AGTH, ai sp@ce, mmo, Video Games
