A New Way of Playing Japanese and English Games Side-By-Side « Legends of Localization legendsoflocalization.com

So, to save time, I developed some “stream magic” that displays a game’s Japanese text while I play the English version on stream.
To accomplish this, we need a way to read the game’s RAM and CPU status from outside the game.
So I then had to go back and decipher the game’s Japanese text format myself from scratch.
With all of these pieces in place, I could display the Japanese line of text on a stream whenever an English line appeared.
ConclusionThis was a general look at how my on-stream Japanese text displayer works, and the basic process for developing it.