Using AI to fan-translate a classic Shin-chan game is now trivially easy
ezshine · x · 2026-11-05
Developer ezshine shows side-by-side screenshots of the NDS game Crayon Shin-chan: Theatrical Land Adventure! — original Japanese UI vs. a Chinese fan translation produced with AI. His takeaway: with today's models, fan-localizing an old game has become remarkably easy, a neat low-barrier use of LLMs for game translation and ROM hacking.
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