Many gamers around the world love to play classic games such as Elder Scrolls, Super Mario and Metal Gear but one thing about older games, like ones made in the 1990s, is that they can lack localisations for each region. As well as that, some games are released exclusively in specific regions, so Japanese exclusives will only be made in Japanese. An example of this is Mother 3 that was released only in Japan after the highly acclaimed Mother 2 (Earthbound) that had a worldwide release. This meant that the fans had to translate the Japanese text if they wanted to know what was going on. RetroArch is a popular open-source gaming emulator where you can play classic games from consoles like the Gamecube on your PC.

A new Google Translate system of artificial intelligence called Zero Shot Translation can now create translations between multiple different pairs of languages -- even pairings the system has never been exposed to before. In a blog post Tuesday, a trio of Google researchers explain how upgrades to their recently unveiled Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system pinpoint the required target language and allow for translations between different combinations of languages, sight-unseen. This means Google Translate can now translate, say, Korean into Japanese, despite having received no Korean-into-Japanese training data. An accompanying research paper was published in Cornell University's arXiv ("archive"), an online repository for scientific research papers. Last week, the Google Translate team announced it had the ability to translate whole sentences, as opposed to merely reading things as a succession of discrete individual words.