Welcome to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Japanese Gaming, brought to you by Boys' Love Games Headquarters, an English-language site devoted to providing information on Japanese boys' love and girls' games.

This guide is designed for beginners to the world of Japanese PC gaming, from enabling your system to handle Japanese games, to troubleshooting techniques, to locating and using capture guides, and in usage on Anime Games Text Hooker, a free application that can extract Japanese text from games so it can then be machine-translated, making the Japanese gaming experience more enjoyable for non-Japanese speakers.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Installing Japanese Language Support

• Installing Japanese Language Support on Windows XP
• Installing Japanese Language Support on Other Windows Operating Systems
• Installing Japanese Language Support on Macintosh

Part 2: Installing Japanese Games

• Installing Japanese Games
• Uninstalling Japanese Games
• Using Virtual Disk Drives and Disk Image Files

Part 3: Playing Japanese Games

• Understanding Game Terminology
• Game Basics
• Common Commands and Option Menu Terms
• Finding and Using Capture Guides

Part 4: Translating Japanese Games with Anime Games Text Hooker

• AGTH Basics
• AGTH Commands
• AGTH Usage Tips
• AGTH Game Compatibility Lists

Part 5: Troubleshooting Japanese Games

• Checklist of Common Game Problems
• System Conflict Issues
• Correcting Font Issues

Part 6: Resources and Links

Bishoujo Game Resources and Links:

• Visual Novel Database
• Ren'ai Mailing List Bishoujo Game Image Gallery
• JAST USA
• Mangagamer
• Bishoujo PC Games Fan Translations
• List of Japanese Bishoujo PC Games
• Bishoujo PC Games Info Sheet
• AGTH Tutorial and Bishoujo Games AGTH Compatibility Lists

Boys' Love and Girls' Game Resources and Links:

• Boys' Love Games Headquarters
• My Neoromance
• Otome Eternal Fan Translations
• List of Japanese Boys' Love PC Games
• List of Japanese Girls' PC Games
• List of Boys' Love and Girls' Games in English
• Boys' Love and Girls' PC Games Info Sheets
• Boys' Love and Girls' PC Games Release Dates
• Boys' Love Games AGTH Compatibility List
• Girls' Games AGTH Compatibility List

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