General explanation about how to use Textractor can be found in the tutorial video by Articash. Those windows are actually extensions that provide a bunch of useful functions that get rid of garbage text and repeated characters. Textractor looks a little intimidating at first glance because a lot of windows are open when you first start it. Artikash is pretty busy with RL and isn’t adding functionalities to the program (according to his github), but he’s pretty active in providing bugfixes and occasional new hooks. It aims to hook text from VNs that popular text hookers like AGTH/ITH/VNR have trouble with and supports both PC games and a number of different emulators including PPSSPP. Textractor by Artikash (previously known as NextHooker) is newest and the most updated text hooker for visual novels at the time of this post. There may be a large number of detected threads, look through them all before flipping any tables. When you hook the PPSSPP exe with ITHVNR, it will try to detect the game engine which may take some time, and if you’re lucky it’ll find something ( Video dead v ).Inside the game, set text speed to maximum.You can set your computer locale to Japanese or use Locale Emulator. It is recommended that you run both PPSSPP and ITHVNR on Japanese locale as administrator.Some games only work on ppsspp ver 0.9.8, some only on 0.9.9 and some only on 0.9.9.1, experiment! I’ve found more success with 0.9.9.1. ITHVNR operates exactly the same as ITH and is very intuitive, and so I’ll mainly mention the stuff you have to keep in mind. So what’s the catch? Well, based on the fact that it’s based on an old software like VNR, it only supports older versions of PPSSPP like ver 0.9.8, 0.9.9 or 0.9.9.1, and thus is not an option for newer PSP games that work only on PPSSPP versions after these. I strongly prefer using ITHVNR and Translation Aggregator to get my game text compared to struggling with VNR which my old laptop can’t handle, and doesn’t even work after the latest Windows 10 updates. The appeal of ITHVNR is that it is able to hook the games that VNR could (be it PC or PSP) and some more, and it is NOWHERE as resource intensive, it looks like exactly the same as old ITH and is super lightweight. (Thanks to Artikash, the developer for textractor) Multiple people have contributed to the effort, but you can download latest version of ITHVNR from here. Option 1: Using ITHVNRīecause ITH has been a reliable JP text hooker for a long time, people created an updated version of ITH using the same hooking engine as VNR called ITHVNR. I’ll cover my experiences with it in a future post. Feel free to check out the step by step manual here. Now I have found 2 possible options that still work in 2020 and would like to share them with you all □ĮDIT: After I published this post, I found that there have been improvements to the Cheat Engine workaround and it can be considered a valid alternative to ITHVNR/Textractor for tricky games. Back in 2014 the closest thing I had found was this awseome person’s blog where they made a custom text hooker exclusively for Daiya no Kuni no Alice and a more general workaround using Cheat Engine. I have been looking for VNR alternatives for a long time even when VNR was alive because of how resource intensive it was. Eventually there was a new server, but the software is still outdated and buggy, and windows 10 updates broke the program for me and many others. Until a few years back ,a lot of people including myself used VNR for this purpose, but after some time VNR support for PPSSPP came to a halt, and eventually the its server died (the offline program was partially dependent on it). Extracting JP text from PSP games running on PPSSPP emulator was considered to be only a pipedream until the amazing Jiichi added PPSSPP support to his text hooker program Visual Novel Reader (VNR) back in July 2014.
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