To be safe, when you’re done installing Japanese games/playing games in Japanese, I would suggest going back to this menu and changing your system locale back to English. This requires a restart to go into effect. Just head to your Control Panel and go to Clock, Language, and Region.Ĭhange your system locale to Japanese. This doesn’t involve making Zeus eat a bunch of Pocky and putting cat ears on his head and forcing him to overuse the word “kawaii”. Step 2: Before installing the game, make your computer think it’s Japanese.They take custom requests, so if what you’re looking for isn’t listed on the website, they’ll prowl around Japan and see if they can find it for you. I’ve seen other blogs have success with Yamato-Touch. There are stores online where you can import them, like JBOX (or its NSFW equivalent, J-List). What game do you want to play? Do some research and find one that appeals to you. Step 1: Get a visual novel for your PC!.

Sometimes AGTH can get tricky, but we’ll get to that soon enough. It doesn’t matter what visual novel you play, because the way you set them up is pretty similar. We’ll be using Akazukin in this tutorial. They have similar taste in ladies, and do not mind if a game has a female protagonist, especially if she is pretty and gets some lovin’. And he prefers not being old and gross.īoth Zeus and Kyle are interested in playing the otome game Akazukin to Mayoi no Mori (赤ずきんと迷いの森). He also prefers casual clothing as opposed to robes and godly laurel crowns. His operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit), he’s an Asus laptop, and he enjoys making love to mortal women and goddesses alike. The Internet is filled with more appropriate places/forums to discuss those things. Some routes one can take to play these games are not-so-legal, and in order to have, like, integrity or something (assuming blogs need integrity), I am not going to describe how to do stuff that’s illegal. Now, my first draft of this ended up being sort of outlawy. So, here we go! Michelle’s Amateur Introductory Tutorial to Playing Japanese Visual Novels on PC with AGTH, ATLAS, and Translation Aggregator! That…is a very long title.

The translations aren’t that good, but a bad translation is better than no translation, and for those who really want to play Japanese visual novels (and have no knowledge of the language), that’s good enough.

As promised, I’ll give you an intro to some programs used to translate Japanese visual novels into English.

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