VNREADER Advance Guide/Tutorial PART 4

Did you know that you can click and swipe the Springboard to the left to reveal more VNR tools?

Related tutorials:
Basics 1
Advance series Part 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Tool	Description
Software Update	Force updates your VNR to the latest version.
Shared dictionary	Access shared dictionary without the need to open the game
Machine Translation	Test how VNR handles machine translation. Similar to Translation Aggregator.
Japanese Dictionary	Access and makes use of your UniDic,MeCab, Edict dictionary that you’ve downloaded .
Text Reader	Similar to ChiiTransLite. It simply translate text on your clipboard or what your mouse hovers on. Currently in alpha stage.
Game Finder	Easy access to find game information via existing Japanese Game database sites.
Game Board	Annot.Me’s visual novel database.
Regular Expression	Test RegEx here before adding them to the shared dictionary.
BBCode	You can use this tester to play with BBCode that you could use to format subtitles.
Youtube Downloader	Download game trailers in youtube.
Web Browser (Website Reader)	Integrated machine translator in a browser. Currently in alpha stage.

Regular Expression

If you want to learn how to make use of Regular Expression, you can try taking lessons from RegExOne.

Web Browser (Website Reader)

Jichi made a browser that would enable users to toggle Furigana text, use offline machine translator, enable pop-up dictionaries as well as enable text to speech feature. This is will aid non-JP users for browsing JP websites and walk-through blogs.

Example site: mblg.tv/urako0/entry/760

Website in Chrome	Furigana enabled in Website Reader
Infoseek Translation enabled  in Website Reader	Website Reader: Preferences

 

TA Replacement script (ErzoTL’s replacement script)

In version 8/16/2014 12:86, the replacement script by Erzotl with modifications has been integrated in VNR.  This will normalize JP dialogue and supposedly improves machine translation which was commonly used in the old TAHelper. [Wiki]

1. Go to Preferences > Translation > Scripts
2. You can check both J-J and J-E correction, it’s up to you.