ITH Tutorial

I no longer deem this tutorial as a Newbie Guide. It's not really complicated but I only advise this for quite advanced players. If you're thinking of playing your first Japanese game using this, hold that thought. I recommend you to play a visual novel with an English patch first. But if you're really stubborn... Ah, well.  

ITH or Interactive Text Hooker is a program that helps hook text from Japanese games.  The extracted text are sent to translation engines (Atlas Fujitsu) or e-dictionaries. In common words, it's an important tool to play Japanese games because without it, you can't get the text. Unless you know how to read Japanese. 

I discarded the idea of making an AGTH (Anime Game Text Hooker) Tutorial.  ITH serves the same function as AGTH but with easier processes. ITH automatically adds the H-codes of most modern games without the trouble of placing it on the the game's target line. ITH can also recognize most game engines. Another advantage, ITH can insert multiple hooks while in AGTH, you can have one. Blah, blah, blah.. I half-bet you don't care about what I'm saying but in shorter words, it's waaaaayy easier to use than AGTH.

If you want more pros and cons, just read this: 

http://code.google.com/p/interactive-text-hooker/

Download ITH here: 
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php/208860-Interactive-Text-Hooker-new-text-extraction-tool

If you're satisfied with that, read on for the tutorial. And yes, it's complete with screenshots.

● First, double-click ITH.exe. In my screenshot, you will see that I have created a shortcut. You can also do that if you hate the idea of going through multiple folders just to open ITH. If you have a shortcut, you need two clicks and you got it. 

● Next, open the Japanese game you want to play.

I swear, that's a Japanese game (although a patch exists). I could have used Starry Sky ~in Summer~ but decided against it. This is a spoiler for the next game I'm featuring, The Second Reproduction.

● Click the Process tab, find your game, click Attach and then OK.

This will show when you have attached your game.

● Now that you've hooked the game, open your translation engine. I use Translation Aggregator because of DevOSD (which I will teach later on). 

● Play the game. When you've come across a dialogue, go back to ITH and click the down-arrow button. This will display a menu with a bunch of options. Choose the one that copies the text in the game once. If it display multiple times, you'll know that it's the wrong one. 

The correct one should be like this. It's the same, right? 

● Now, you have to make it that it automatically copies to the translator. Click the Option tab and check the second box beside Auto copy to clipboard. Click OK.

● Just wait for the Translator to translate it. And you're done. I can't teach you how to add /h codes because I'm not really good at that part. I really can't teach things I half-understand.

Word-per-word translation. I know right? But you have no choice if you want to play a Japanese game. Just use your understanding. 

If you want this, use DevOSD. Just not for The Second Reproduction because an English Patch for this exists.

DevOSD Tutorial? Click this:
http://sasugasugoi.blogspot.com/2012/06/devosd-tutorial.html