掲示板 Forums - Bilingual emulation

Hello everybody, Video games are one of the greatest part of modern Japanese culture (not all of them, but let's not quarell about details), especially the old classics on Super Nintedo that you might want to emulate on your computer. Since Japanese original roms can often be found, this doubles as a great way to improve your Japanese. Unfortunately for us less advanced learners and lovers of RPG, it seems impossible to find bilingual roms even for such a classic as Final Fantasy VI. So I'm trying to find the best setup to play without the need to have a disctionnary open at all times. - Two roms running on two emulators, one japanese and one english, with one controller playing both? (maybe problems with random encounters or so) - Japanese roms with dialogs on a text file? (does it even exists?) I'll try and tell you what works for me. In the meanwhile, fell free to share your insights about this vital subject.

Thanks for your answer. However, some links seem to be dead in the thread you linked. Indeed, bilingual roms just cannot be found, and I couldn't set up two emulators that would play perfectly in parallel, mostly because of the random encounters. The only reasonable solution is to play along with a game script. Of course the best would be a Japanese-English game script, but that too seems impossible to find. So two scripts seems like the only way to go, Japanese + rikaichan for the first try and English if I really don't get it. Game faqs might be a good source, but pay attention that a lot a game scripts do not include optional dialogs (this is the case for FFVI, but I could found a better script at http://sky_render.tripod.com/ff6script.txt). Side note: you can use Rikaichan offline. Just save the script as a text file and force it to open with firefox.