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

Part 2: Installing Japanese Games

Part 3: Playing Japanese Games

Part 4: Translating Japanese Games with Anime Games Text Hooker

Part 5: Troubleshooting Japanese Games

Part 6: Resources and Links

Bishoujo Game Resources and Links:

Boys' Love and Girls' Game Resources and Links:


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