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Playing Ancient Games on an XP Virtual Machine and Extracting Text for Translation
1. Running the Game in a Different Locale Using ntleas in the VM
If the game displays garbled characters, you can use ntleas's x86\ntleas.exe to run the game in a different locale. Open cmd, switch to the ntleas\x86 folder, and run ntleas.exe "absolute path to game.exe".
2. Extracting Text Using LunaHook Windows XP Special Edition in the VM
Download [LunaHook](https://github.com/HIllya51/LunaHook/releases)'s Release_Chinese_winxp.zip, copy it into the VM, and run it. Select the game's process, choose the game text, and then in the settings, activate Copy to Clipboard.
3. Translating on the Host Machine
Set up shared clipboard functionality for the VM to transmit clipboard content from the VM to the host machine.
Run LunaTranslator on the host machine and switch the text input source from HOOK to Clipboard.
The final effect is as follows:
