ITH and Translation Aggregator Guide

Hello everyone~

If you're reading visual novels and depend on translation programs and text hookers, here's a small guide into the new ITH (Interactive Text Hooker) that has been developed.

I'll update more if there are people who need help with other things. For now, I'll just show the basics of ITH and a few things about Translation Aggregator (TA).

I'm sure there are people who use Chiitrans. That's also another choice, but this thread will focus more on ITH and Translation Aggregator.

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Updated: 16 September 2014 (EST)

A solution to the game Wolf RPG. If you have a similar game, then scroll to the bottom of this post, labelled "Solution to Wolf RPG", to find the solution.

Updated: 18 December 2017

Thanks to [MENTION=87]Frankincense[/MENTION] All images in the thread that are dead have been re-uploaded again.

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Quick Note

- Some of the things in this guide may require ATLAS, a translation program.
- Here is the site for those unfamiliar: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/software/translation/atlas/downloads/

Like I mentioned, this small guide is to mainly help people with ITH and TA. I won't go into detail about ATLAS, but I would recommend it for 'quick, overall translations'.

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Interactive Text Hooker

1. First thing you should check is when you open ITH and your game...

- Go to ITH and press the 'Process' button.
- Search for the name of your game.
- Click the game's name and click 'Add Profile'. Press 'OK'.

Here's an example below. My game's name is 'PersonA'.

Spoiler: Step 1

2. To make sure it's added, go to ITH and press 'Profile'.

Here's an example below. As you can see, the game is added.

Spoiler: Step 2

3. Next, go to ITH and press 'Option'. Make sure these are checked and press 'OK'.

- Auto attach
- Auto insert
- Auto copy to clipboard
- Auto suppress repetition

These enable the translation from Japanese to English and captures the text.

Here's an example below.

Spoiler: Step 3

4. In ITH, insert the hook you have in that rectangular white box.

I'll be using my hook /HW4@42E3A2.

As you can see below, my text is all jumbled repeated Japanese...

Spoiler: Step 4

5. After you type the hook and press 'Enter', you then press 'Hook' on ITH.

Scroll to find your hook. It should be labelled 'UserHook' or labelled with the numbers and letters you inserted as the hook. Then select that hook and press 'OK'.

See below for the example.

Spoiler: Step 5

6. Click the text/dialogue box in your game or anywhere so ITH can detect/pick up the text with its new hook you inputted.

See below... just click somewhere so ITH can generate your new hook.

Spoiler: Step 6

7. Go back to the front of ITH, and scroll until you find 'UserHook' or whichever new hook you inputted, and pick the hook that corresponds and displays the right text for your game.

See below for the example.

Spoiler: Step 7

Result: It should generate the text like this picture below.

Spoiler: Result

8. Go to ITH, and press 'Save'. This saves the hook and makes sure that if you open ITH again, the hook you used will be there the next time you play.

9. Please close/exit ITH. Then open it up again. If you did it correctly, when you press 'Profile', you should see your hook.

Here is an example.

Spoiler: Step 9

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Translation Aggregator

Once you have downloaded TA and saved it in a suitable location, please check the following things to get you started.

1. Please download Mecab and the edict files for Jparser.

Mecab

- Download Mecab here: http://code.google.com/p/mecab/downloads/list
- If you haven't installed Mecab before, download the '.exe' (execution file).
- If you have installed it before, just download the updates with the extensions '.tar.gz'.
- When installing, choose a dictionary other than 'UTF16' like 'UTF8'.

Jparser

- Download Jparser here: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict_doc.html
- Download either 'edict.gz' or 'edict2.gz' or both.
- Decompress it and put it in TA's 'dictionaries' folder.

Please see below if you aren't sure.

Spoiler: TA Step 1

2. Open TA, click 'Tools', and make sure these two things are checked.

- Translate from = Japanese
- Translate to = English

Here's an example just in case.

Spoiler: TA Step 2

3. If you have done it correctly, you can open TA with ITH and your game running.

As you can see below, Jparser can translate text if you hover over the word. You can see Mecab is functioning and the other translation boxes as well.

Spoiler: TA Step 3

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Extra Tip for Translation Aggregator

If you would like to see your game's top menu bar in English, please do the following.

1. When you open TA, go to 'Tools', and go to 'Launch Text Hooker'.

If you're not sure, here's a picture.

Spoiler: Extra 1

2. Find your game and double-click it or press 'Open'. Once done, please click 'OK'.

Here's an example. My game is 'PersonA'.

Spoiler: Extra 2

3. Hover over your game's menu bar and it should change to English.

See below for an example.

Spoiler: Extra 3

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Solution to Wolf RPG

Give thanks to [MENTION=84482]Abdalmaus[/MENTION] ; and [MENTION=2724]Sakimichi[/MENTION] ; for their time and effort in providing the solution.


1.

Spoiler: Sakimichi's Solution

/Ks2 should work, but if no one can answer you question I suggest using VNR. https://code.google.com/p/annot-player/
WolfEngine doesn't need any hook codes and the repetitions are already removed.
Plus Chiitrans2 is already an abandonware.

Go to preferences and do this:


Run the game and Go to options:

2.

Spoiler: Abdalmaus's Solution

Update
If anyone ever run into the same problem as me:
Run the game through agth separately instead of trying to start it from Chii.
Command line I was recommended is: "c:/agth.exe" /c /x3 /kf64:16 /ks2 "game.exe"
Turn on Chii after you set it with the right monitored thread on AGTH.
Check "Enable clipboard monitoring" on Chii and "Check for repeating phrases"
If you're using ChiiTrans2, just run game and select "AGTH inject (...)"

Now I got both software working as I wanted
VNR is perfect for me to play VNs and some other games on fullscreen (specially with widescreen)
And Chii for windowed RPGs!

I take no credit on that solution, I'm not sure if I can mention other forums here.

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If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or anything else please feel free to do so.

Additional Info:

Here you can find an excellent guide to Text Hooker by Aero:

http://amaenboda.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/an-aero-gamers-guide-to-using-atlas/

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy your games. ^^

Edit: as of March 2014, Google have updated their API so TA cannot communicate with it anymore. There's a highly beta, untested fix located here
You can download them from there or the link below:
View attachment Source - Translation Aggregator 0.4.9.3.r174.zip
View attachment Translation Aggregator 0.4.9.3.r174.zip

 

[laczy90]

Someone has code for: [Purple software] 夏色小町 https://vndb.org/v531. I tested with older and newer ITH and ITHVNR but from the extracted text has missing characters.

 

[Kratosirving]

I don't know how many people use ITH or will end up checking this thread, but it appears that the Windows 10 Creator's Update breaks ITH in some way or form as I've been using it fine for months, and than after I ran the update overnight, ITH won't attach processes to any VN/game I've got that I had used it for. Don't know if there could be any help with the issue, but I wanted to spread the word here as for the moment ITH is sort of a dead program for those with Win10 and have the Creator's Update installed/installing soon.

 

[Abdalmaus]

I still use ITH along with ChiiTrans (ITHVNR to be exact), but I didn't feel the need to downgrade update to Windows 10 yet
Does it give you any error?
I'll let my friends that use Windows 10 know, thank you.

 

[progste]

I am still using ith on Windows 10, it needs a fix amd it must be run as admin but it works, one issue i have noticed on my main pc (strangely not on my laptop) is that ith takes ages to start even though my pc is quite powerful.
I use ith+translation aggregator as a combo.
I have tried ith vnr but it seemed to work with less games.

 

[Buster4MC]

ITH seems to have stopped working after the latest windows security patches, FYI.

 

[progste]

Still works for me, maybe add an exception to windows defender

 

[Buster4MC]

Still works for me, maybe add an exception to windows defender

Sadly this does not work for me. Up until the most recent update it worked for me, now the ITH-fix for windows 10 says, "Failed to attach ITH to process." The legacy ITH still works for some games, but the windows 10 fix is broken for me.

 

[progste]

mh, that's worrying, I hope it doesn't stop working for me as well...

 

[Animefan_09]

Since i depend on ITH and its variants for playing non translated eroges i am happy i didn't change my windows from 7 to 10.

 

[progste]

After today's update it stopped working for me as well...
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

[Buster4MC]

If you have the legacy variant, that will still work for some games. Ah well, I am sure we'look have a solution along soon.

 

[Animefan_09]

After today's update it stopped working for me as well...
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

What windows do you have? 7? (please don't say 7!!!)

 

[progste]

Windows 10

 

[yukihira]

is there any new translation aggregator version.
My cant use any online translations anymore

 

[progste]

there is VN reader, try that one, it's a bit of a mess to set up sometimes

 

[yukihira]

u dont want to use VNR though, its so lagging :yawn:

 

[progste]

u dont want to use VNR though, its so lagging :yawn:

I use vnr to hook the text and translation aggregator+ATLAS to read and it doesn't lag at all, the only inconvenience is that whenever vnr hooks a game for the first time it has to do that annoying "looking online for settings" that takes around a minute

 

[Animefan_09]

I use vnr to hook the text and translation aggregator+ATLAS to read and it doesn't lag at all, the only inconvenience is that whenever vnr hooks a game for the first time it has to do that annoying "looking online for settings" that takes around a minute

I use the ITH version because of that online thing, my internet sucks big time, and half the time i want to play is because i don't have internet and want to kill time xD

 

[progste]

I'd use ITH as well but it doesn't seem to work on windows 10

 

[yukihira]

I use vnr to hook the text and translation aggregator+ATLAS to read and it doesn't lag at all, the only inconvenience is that whenever vnr hooks a game for the first time it has to do that annoying "looking online for settings" that takes around a minute

how to do that ?

 

[progste]

in the option enable "copy text to clipboard" and TA will pick it up

 

[yukihira]

oh ok i did it :D
thanks

 

[progste]

Hi everyone, so after suffering for months because win10 would not let me use ITH I found out there is a working version of ITHVNR but since I couldn't find a compiled version I decided to do it on my own, here is the result in case anyone wants it
https://mega.nz/#!ng4hRKTK!Q1BToG2gZhI3yzLoU7UYXV1AsHAfgPWfbPc9aZonZ_k

It works exactly like the old ITH and should be able to hook most current VNs, simply extract the files and launch the exe

edit: right after I wrote this I realized there is a working version posted by Asphyx in the netorare thread http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/...ussion-thread-44653/index884.html#post2406881
Still it can't hurt to have a double =P

 

[darknessblade]

Hi everyone, so after suffering for months because win10 would not let me use ITH I found out there is a working version of ITHVNR but since I couldn't find a compiled version I decided to do it on my own, here is the result in case anyone wants it
https://mega.nz/#!ng4hRKTK!Q1BToG2gZhI3yzLoU7UYXV1AsHAfgPWfbPc9aZonZ_k

It works exactly like the old ITH and should be able to hook most current VNs, simply extract the files and launch the exe

edit: right after I wrote this I realized there is a working version posted by Asphyx in the netorare thread http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/...ussion-thread-44653/index884.html#post2406881
Still it can't hurt to have a double =P

i have since a while some issue's with ITH (all known versions)

i run windows 10 fall edition.
after a clean install i get errors, broken injection's.
overal ITH will not work.

i even tried a back-up of a version that is known to work with win10 (creators update)

even tried to disable antivirus, (failed)
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if you can find a version that will work with win10 fall edition (latest version)

 

[progste]

The version I posted works on windows 10 updated to the latest version