Translating a game HELP

[shan109]

(11-06-2013 09:43 PM)Blyss Sarania Wrote:  You need to figure out the encoding, make a program to unpack those files, translate them and then repack them. Plus any images that have text in them will need to be decoded, edited and reencoded.

Your first step is to figure out the encoding the game uses and which files are the script files.

This a really over simplified explanation though.

I also want to do some game translations but I'm quite lazy to do/learn about this "first step." If there is just a way to extract all the texts from a game and then once translated, will automatically replace all the old texts, I'll gladly do some game translations during my free time... It will be a great practice for the upcoming JLPT.