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Popular games often have several translations into the same language. The picker lays them out side by side so choosing takes a minute, not an evening.
Choosing an adaptation
Popular games often have several translations into the same language. The picker lays them out side by side so choosing takes a minute, not an evening.
Popular games attract more than one translation team, and each team's result is its own adaptation: same game, same language sometimes, different choices. One keeps character names in English, another translates them. One is fully dubbed, another is text only but further along. Tranzio doesn't pick for you silently; it shows you the options and makes comparing them easy. This page is about that moment of choice.
The picker
When a game has more than one adaptation, its card and its game page say so, and Choose version opens the picker: a list where every option shows the team, the source badge, coverage, rating, install count, download size, and version. Three teams translating the same game into Japanese look like this:
Text + full audio
4.812.4k installs4.8 GB · v2.5.0 · updated yesterday
Text only, names kept in English
4.43.1k installs620 MB · v1.9.2 · updated 2 months ago
Text 61%, main story done
4.1480 installs410 MB · v0.7.0 · updated 4 days ago
The tabs across the top of the picker split adaptations by language, since a game translated into Japanese by three teams and into Portuguese by one shows four entries. Pick your language tab first, then compare within it. Opening an entry shows its full card:
The source badges, quickly
Coverage, and what it costs
Coverage is measured in three places, and they move independently. Text is how much of the writing is translated, voice is how many clips are dubbed, and fonts is whether your alphabet renders at all. A pack can be perfect on one and empty on another, which is exactly where the trade-off between teams lives.
Hollow Knight: Silksong, Japanese
Everything is translated and dubbed. Take this one if hearing your language matters.
Fonts deserve a word. If a game ships no glyphs for your alphabet, an otherwise complete translation renders as empty boxes, so a pack showing 0 fonts replaced on a game that needs them is the one thing on this screen that can spoil an install outright.
Which one should I pick?
There's no wrong answer (switching later is painless), but here's the honest decision guide:
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
| Recommended | The highest-rated verified option for that language, highlighted at the top. When you don't feel like comparing, take this and go play. |
| Verified | Reviewed by Tranzio for quality and safety. The lowest-risk choice. |
| Community | Made by players, not yet reviewed. Judge it like a restaurant with no critic review: lots of installs and a high rating is a good sign. |
| Beta | Still in progress. Pick it if you want the newest work and don't mind untranslated patches; the coverage numbers tell you what to expect. |
| Coverage | If hearing your language matters to you, filter for Text + full audio. If you just want to read comfortably, a high text percentage is all you need. |
| Last updated | Recent updates mean the team is still around, which matters when the game itself gets patched. |
Two options, side by side
When two adaptations are genuinely close, the decision usually comes down to two or three rows. Here's a typical pair: a verified, fully dubbed pack against a lighter community one that keeps the original voice acting.
| Compare | Acme Verified | NightOwl Community |
|---|---|---|
| Source | Verified by Tranzio | Community, not reviewed |
| Text | 100%, 38,400 strings | 100%, 38,400 strings |
| Voice | Fully dubbed, 2,100 clips | Original voice acting kept |
| Character names | Translated into Japanese | Kept in English |
| Rating | 4.8 from 224 players | 4.4 from 61 players |
| Download | 4.8 GB | 620 MB |
| Last updated | yesterday | 2 months ago |
Neither column is the right answer on its own. A player who wants Japanese voices takes the left one and the 4.8 GB that comes with it; a player on a slow connection who's happy reading takes the right one and starts playing in a minute.
Already installed one and curious about another? Open the picker again and install the other adaptation. It replaces the previous one cleanly, restore point and all. Your saves don't care which translation you read. See Installing a translation.