Update 0.3.0 is out now!

The long-awaited desktop and attached modes are finally here!

Probably the most wanted feature for GameTranslate has been the ability to translate anything on your screen, including games that run on obscure graphics API's that many of the popular visual novel games that are made with RPG Maker engine do.

This update brings a change to the 'Launch' button, as one launch button becomes three. We now have the;

• 'Desktop' launch button
• 'Internal' launch button
• 'Attached' launch button

The desktop button will allow you to translate anything on your screen, with the caveat that it has the 'Automatic' translation mode disabled due to a screenshot bug. I hope to fix this in the future. The desktop mode will currently pick your main monitor screen, but the option to pick which one you want to use will come later.

The internal button works just like the original 'Launch' button. Only supports games that run on common graphics API's (apart from Vulkan), and it is the only mode that supports real fullscreen as well as the ability to 'block' the game input so that you can translate things such as tooltips that appear when you hover something.

The attached mode lets you translate in all games that can run in windowed mode, as well as most games that run in borderless fullscreen mode. This is the go-to mode for visual novel games.

What's next?

The new OCR engine implementation discussed here is more or less at the finish line, but it has been held back for weeks due to problems with the 32-bit version. As we now have the desktop & attached modes that will run in 64-bit, I will resume this work over the next week and hold off on the 32-bit version for now.

This change should improve text detection by quite a good margin for text fonts that are not document style, so all of you who enjoy visual novels should soon have much better quality output!