2019-03-29 01:03:12

Just wondering if latest JGT is compatible with NVDA 2019.1. And I currently have 2.0—can I install straight over that or do I have to uninstall and then reinstall?

2019-03-29 01:53:41

Yeah I wish there was a way we could somehow get access to the cache for offline purposes. I'm almost never offline, but if there's any time to explore of a lot of these sorts of games, it's when you're about to embark on a 22 hour flight.

2019-03-29 02:18:29 (edited by threeblacknoises 2019-03-29 10:24:18)

It does work with the latest nvda.
In fact I used it just today...
And yes we can access the cash offline.
Just make sure you're running latest JGT.
You should uninstall the old version before installing the new one.
And, just before anyone asks, no we can't update the cash ourselves, Ian has to do that when he makes a new version...
Speaking of;
Starting with NVDA 2019.2, all addons will need to have a minimum NVDA version encoded into them or they won't be loaded, so Ian will need to update JGT in the next few months, and maybe every month or so after that depending on how this crazy new feature works.
From the NVDA website;
NVDA will no longer automatically load custom appModules, globalPlugins and braille and synth drivers from the NVDA user configuration directory. This
code should be instead packaged as an add-on with correct version information, ensuring that incompatible code is not run with current versions of NVDA.
For developers who need to test code as it is being developed, enable NVDA’s developer scratchpad directory in the Advanced category of NVDA settings,
and place your code in the ‘scratchpad’ directory found in the NVDA user configuration directory when this option is enabled.
Also, add-ons can now specify a minimum required NVDA version, and the last tested NVDA version, in their manifest. If this version of NVDA is outside
of the specified range, NVDA will refuse to install or enable that particular add-on. This version of NVDA will however still allow installing and loading
of add-ons that do not yet contain Minimum and Last Tested NVDA version information at all, but upgrading to future versions of NVDA (E.g. 2019.2) may
automatically cause these older add-ons to be disabled.
Hope that helps you out.
Later!

2020-01-10 00:58:57

JGT now has 2 versions, one for NVDA 2019.2 and prior, and one for the upcoming NVDA 2019.3.
I have also updated the cache files with everything currently in the database, making translations ultra fast, and letting you play most games without even logging in.
Plus I fixed a few difficult to find bugs that were causing the addon to not find certain translations in the offline cache, so now offline play works much better.
You can read the user manual here.
You can download the latest version of the addon for NVDA 2019.2 and prior here.
You can download the latest version of the addon for NVDA 2019.3 and later here.
Thanks to Tyler Spivey for providing me with an updated version of the Pro Talker addon, which makes debugging JGT much nicer.
I've added a download link to his updated version of pro talker in the JGT manual, for those who want to use it for things like the casino in Alternative Magic. It works for NVDA 2019.2 and prior.

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2020-01-10 03:58:39

Thanks Ian. Gonna go grab the addon now.

2020-01-10 08:59:58

Hi. Thanks so much for the update. Which games can be played off-line? Please could you provide a list?

Hopefully, we'll get a fully accessible open world game someday.

2020-01-10 09:02:00

Thank you very much for keep working on this.

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2020-01-10 10:47:52

Thank you very much Ian. That's amazing.

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2020-01-10 11:07:58

Wow just started playing the galaxy laboratory games and I admit I was a wee bit worried about what would happen to the addon after the update.
Thanks a lot for the fixes and the great job you've done.

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2020-01-10 12:24:43

yea! gonna grab it now! thanks for the update!

2020-01-10 12:35:34

Thanks all for the appreciation.

@RTT entertainment, there is no specific list of games that are supported offline.

The way it works is that every translation ever performed by the JGT service gets downloaded with the JGT addon in a local cache.
So as long as you only encounter text that has previously been translated, you can play offline and the JGT addon will translate them locally.
If you happen to hit some text that JGT has not translated, it will remind you to login in order to get it translated.
So for example, if others who played before you encountered 98% of the text in a specific game, then you could encounter that same 98% of the text while offline and have it translated.
But if you encounter any of the 2% of the text that has not been translated, then instead of a translation, JGT will remind you to login.

There is no way for me to know exactly how much of each game has been translated, other than to say that games that have been around for a while have likely been played through by many people and had almost all of their text encountered.
So those games can probably be played offline just fine, unless you hit the 1 or 2% of the game that nobody has hit before.
And on the other side, any new Japanese games that come out after the latest JGT release will have no cached translations, so you will need to login to get any of their text translated.

There is a lot of processing that happens to the Japanese text in order to minimize the exponential growth of translations needed when games start combining many bits of text together.
For instance, when BK3 tells you that you placed X, Y, and Z into the warehouse, and X, Y, and Z could be replaced with any combination of 500 different item names, in any order, with any number of items in the list, the number of possible sentences is enormous.
This is a major downside of JGT only getting access to the finalized spoken text, rather than being incorporated directly into the games own logic.
In order to get the local cache working I had to duplicate the processing that was happening server side within the addon itself.
I don't have much skill or experience in Python, so it took me a while to get that working.
Even now, there is a little bit of the processing that is still not being done exactly the same, but hopefully most people won't hit those edge cases.

If you want the best experience with JGT, you should still login when it is convenient, so any little snippet of text that can't be translated locally will still get translated on the server.
You will still get all the performance benefits of the local cache.
But for those who want to play when they have no internet connection, hopefully they will still have a really good, if imperfect, experience.

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2020-01-10 15:27:53

Thanks to a new contributor, I have added support for German as a target language.
The download links are the same as in post 304.

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2020-01-10 15:46:42

Hello,
Is it possible for Turkish to be added as a target language? If so what kind of contributions need to be done?

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2020-01-10 16:36:49

By no means I am interested in playing japanese games as it currently stands but I have a question I'm currious about.
What's your logic if it comes to selectign new target languages? You add these based up on donations you receive from people from given region or what?
@Burak, he probably needs money as these things are not cheap, I guarantee you

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2020-01-10 16:49:23

Hi. Thanks for that explanation. Will we have to update the add-on to take advantage of the translations that others have used? Also, and this isn’t that important, but could you please look at Afrikaans being added as a target language?

Hopefully, we'll get a fully accessible open world game someday.

2020-01-10 17:49:34

Cool ian.
This will make a few people happier.
The next addon that needs converting is the one for enter keypresses for nvda not sure if thats ever been discussed or not.

2020-01-10 19:18:33

Hi guys.
So, I always get an error when trying to install the pro talker add-on.
It always says failed to open and that there is a missing file or something.
Also, what does this particular add-on do?

Hopefully, we'll get a fully accessible open world game someday.

2020-01-10 19:57:48

this addon would be nice for translating chinese games also, is it possible to inclood that?

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2020-01-10 20:50:05

Jup! I can use JGT at my alpha wersion!

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2020-01-13 16:19:57

I am using the JGT for NVDA 2019.2 and prior.
I have started to translate the game "Dreamy Train" from Galaxy Laboratory.
However, I noticed something odd.
When I loaded the first course, the addon stopped working, although re-logging in fixed the issue. I hope I haven't been striked for this. I didn't get any kind of warning though, but I'm just wondering what happened. I clicked the course, it loaded the course, and then stopped working until I logged back in.

2020-01-13 16:51:30

ah yeah that small bug, you just have to refocus into the game, when loading the course, the game will be not responding for a bit, after it's done, jgt somehow do not notice this, so you have to alt tab out and back in to the game.

2020-01-13 20:22:14

Cool. I hope my account won't get flagged.
That's a point, how does the program know what's a game and what isn't, and how can the addon be made aware of new games? Is Ian adding them manually as they come in, or is the addon reacting to the program?

2020-02-08 02:55:48 (edited by Ian Reed 2020-02-08 03:08:10)

I have released a new version of JGT.
It fixes issues in the version for NVDA 2019.3 and later where certain text and menus would not be spoken in Morakuma's text games.
It also supports 5 new target languages, bringing the total to 9.
The new languages are Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Korean, and Turkish.
You can read the user manual here.
You can download the latest version of the addon for NVDA 2019.2 and prior here.
You can download the latest version of the addon for NVDA 2019.3 and later here.

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2020-02-08 10:45:42

Ian.
What would make this financially viable for you to possibly add Simplified Chinese as a source language? I'd be willing to put in some money for this to happen.

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2020-02-08 14:22:24 (edited by Muhammad Hajjar 2020-02-08 14:42:30)

I'm also willing to financially help to make this a possibility. That would so much make a major difference when playing Chinese games if done.
Also, congrats on the update, have installed it just now.

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