Poll: Assessing interest in text-hooking resources to play Japanese visual novels

Objective: To gauge interest in coverage of text-hooking, a method to extract text in real-time from Japanese visual novels to facilitate machine translation or dictionary lookup. Text hooking with dictionary lookup is often used by Japanese learners as part of the "learn by playing visual novels" method.

Note: This poll is no longer collecting responses. I'm keeping the poll open to enable people to view responses at the link below.

Results link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-KF97P8CS/

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* 1. What text-hooking related resources would interest you if they were made available?

A basic guide providing an overview of text-hooking tools, how they work, and comparing strengths / weaknesses of each

A comprehensive how-to guide detailing how to text-hook with specific tools

A guide on how to optimize text-hooking for Japanese learning or machine translation

Game-specific troubleshooting, including H-codes to make specific games hook properly

A tutorial on how to create H-codes yourself with tools like Cheat Engine

A searchable database of H-codes and methods to troubleshoot hooking problems with specific games

None of the above

Other (please specify)

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* 2. Do you currently text hook Japanese VNs?

Yes

No (Skip questions 3-5)

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* 3. Do you predominantly rely on machine translation, or text parsing with dictionary lookup?

Machine translation

Text parsing with dictionary lookup

Dictionary lookup only

Both machine translation and text parsing with dictionary lookup

None of the above

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* 4. What is your text hooker of choice?

Visual Novel Reader (VNR)

Interactive Text Hooker with the VNR engine (ITHVNR)

ChiiTrans (uses modified ITH)

Interactive Text Hooker (ITH)

Translation Aggregator's internal hook (if you don't know what the internal hook is then choose "AGTH" below)

Anime Game Text Hooker (AGTH, included with Translation Aggregator)

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What is your text display tool / parser of choice?

Visual Novel Reader

Translation Aggregator

Chiitrans

Browser tool (e.g., Rikaichan, Rikaikun)

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What visual novel community do you primarily identify with (or saw this survey linked on)?

Fuwanovel

HongFire

VNDB

Reddit (/r/visualnovels)

4chan

LewdGamer

Other (please specify)