Installing a translation

Installing a translation is the moment Tranzio was built for, and it's been made deliberately boring. Tranzio has already found your copy of the game, so the first screen shows you what it found and gives you one button to press. Then a progress bar, then you play. Before it changes a single file it saves a restore point, so there is no step in this process you can't undo.

1. 1

   Open the installer

   On any game page or card, press Install translation (or Choose version first if the game has several translations, then Install on the one you want). A window opens with the three steps above: find the game, download, play.

2. 2

   Check it found the right game

   A translation is installed into your copy of the game, so Tranzio needs to know where that copy lives. It has already checked the usual places (your Steam and Epic libraries), so the first screen shows the game it found with its box art, the folder it sits in, and what you are about to download. If that is your game, press Install now and you are done choosing.

   The three boxes under the picture are the "read the label" moment: how big the download is, whether you get translated text or text and voices, and which version this is.

3. 3

   Download and apply

   Press Install now and watch it go: a live progress bar with the percentage, the amount downloaded, your speed, the time remaining, and which file is currently being applied. Tranzio saves the restore point first, then patches the game in place. You can close the window and the download carries on regardless of which plan you are on; the Downloads page tracks it.

4. 4

   Launch and switch language

   When the window says installed, start the game normally (from Steam, your desktop, wherever you always start it). Most games pick the new language automatically; some list it in their own options menu, so if you still see the original language, look there first.

Finding your game folder#

Pointing at the right folder is the only part of an install that ever needs your judgement, and most of the time it needs none: Tranzio reads your Steam and Epic libraries before the window opens, so it arrives already holding an answer. The first screen is that answer, put where you can check it in a second, with the box art rather than a filesystem path.

When it is wrong, and it is occasionally wrong (a repack, a second copy, a drive you moved everything to), press That is not my game. That opens a shelf of every game on the computer as box art, with the one you are translating first and marked This one. Choosing a tile does not install anything: it takes you back to the screen above with the new folder filled in, so there is still one Install button in the whole window and it is still the last thing you press.

If the game is not on the shelf either (a portable copy, a launcher Tranzio doesn't read), use Choose a folder myself and point at the game's root folder, the one that holds its executable.

Reading the progress screen#

The Download step runs on its own and reports everything as it goes. There's nothing to do here except watch, or close the window and let it finish in the background. Closing it never cancels anything, on any plan: the download lives outside this window, and the Downloads page is where it carries on. Stopping is a button that says Stop download, and it asks first.

Games that check their own files#

Some games are built to verify every content file they load and quietly ignore anything that doesn't carry the right marker. On those, a translation that is completely correct still changes nothing, and there is no message anywhere to tell you why: the game simply reads its own files and skips yours. Sifu is one of them.

Tranzio handles this for you. For the lighter checks, it installs the game's own marker alongside the translation so the game accepts it. Some games check more thoroughly than a marker can satisfy (Luto is one), and for those Tranzio installs a small helper next to the game that lets the translation load. It fetches that helper only when a game needs it, and removes everything it added when you undo the install. Each build also checks whether a newer helper has been released and replaces the one next to the game when it has, so a fix reaches you without reinstalling anything.

There is nothing to turn on and nothing to notice, and a game that does no checking is left exactly as it was. The build log always says what it did, so if a signed game still shows nothing, the reason is written there. An administrator can switch the helper off for everyone, in which case the translation still installs and the log explains why a signed game will not show it.

Undoing an install#

Every install saves a restore point: a copy of every original file the patch replaced, plus a note of anything it added. To go back, open the game from your library and choose Revert to original. Replaced files are put back and added ones are removed, so the game returns to exactly its pre-translation state, byte for byte. Your progress and save files are never affected in either direction; they live in a different place entirely and Tranzio doesn't go there.

Most translations are a single file dropped beside the game's own, and nothing else in the folder is touched. A few games need a little more: one that ships no language files at all has nowhere for the translation to go, so Tranzio creates that folder inside the game. Those are the files "added" above, and reverting deletes them.

Installing several at once#

Free accounts install one translation at a time, which is fine for most evenings. With Pro you can queue several and let them download together, manage their order, and pause the lot. All of that lives on the Downloads page.

Once installed, translations aren't frozen: teams keep improving them, and Tranzio tells you when a newer version is available. That flow has its own page, Keeping translations up to date.