Summary of "Jogue Visual Novels não Traduzidas com Luna Translator! (Tutorial)"

Overview

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Luna Translator to translate visual novels in real time (for example, Japanese → English/Portuguese, English → Portuguese). The presenter runs the program live, reports good translation quality, and notes a download link is available in the video description.

Key concepts / input modes

Hook: reads text directly from the game’s process. Most reliable for many visual novels.
OCR: selects an area of the screen and reads text visually. Useful when Hook fails.
Clipboard: translates whatever text you copy to the clipboard.
You choose the input mode per game. The tutorial focuses primarily on Hook.

Step-by-step setup (essential actions)

Install Luna Translator (download link provided by the presenter).
Open Settings and change the interface language if needed (for example, set to Portuguese).
Set source and target languages (supports English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Russian, etc.).
Select the input type: Hook, OCR, or Clipboard.
Choose the game process:
- Click the game window to auto-detect, or
- Pick the process from a list.
If multiple Hook candidates appear, pick the one that shows correct, non-duplicated, non-garbled text.
Adjust encoding/encoder if required (default is TF; the presenter switched to an English encoder for their case).

Translation backends

Supports multiple APIs, including Google and DeepL.
Presenter prefers Google for English → Portuguese.
Can use local LLM templates for more advanced or local processing (requires additional setup).

Customization & interface features

Change font, font size, and interface style.
Word-processing filters (duplicate filtering, text replacement).
Voice / TTS options.
Eye icon toggles visibility of the original/source text (can hide source text to show only translation).
Click-through cursor allows interaction with the underlying game (advance lines by clicking through the translator overlay).
Window pin keeps the translator overlay on top of the game.
Log and injection messages appear when Hook is attached.

Tips & troubleshooting

If a Hook candidate repeats or shows scrambled text, try another candidate from the list.
OCR requires selecting the correct on-screen area to work well.
Default settings will suit most users; change encoding or API only for specific language or quality needs.
The presenter offers to make a deeper tutorial covering advanced topics (such as local LLM setup) if requested.

Claims / evaluation

The presenter describes the program as “very good” and easy to use; translation quality in the demo was satisfactory.
Recommends Google API for English → Portuguese based on their experience.