TataruHelper

Tataru Helper

Real-time translation overlay for Final Fantasy XIV: story, cutscenes, quests, NPC lines and chat.

Maintained by xDarkOne. Originally created by NightlyRevenger.

Download Setup.exe · Guide · Linux · FAQ · Discord

Languages: EN | RU | KO | ES | CA | PL | PT-BR | UK | ZH | JA

Features

• Translates the game’s text as it appears: the main story, cutscene subtitles, quests, NPC lines and chat.
• Reads the text from the game itself, so there is no copying and pasting.
• Many translation engines, free ones included, with automatic fallback to another engine when one fails. See Translation engines.
• Several independent chat windows, each with its own engine, languages, fonts, colors and hotkeys.
• Choose which chat channels are translated, and the color of each.
• Shows the hand-made XIV Rus Translation instead of a machine’s where one exists.
• The overlay can be click-through, always on top, auto-hiding, and toggled by hotkeys.
• Interface in 12 languages. Updates install themselves.

Requirements

• Final Fantasy XIV with DirectX 11 (the 64-bit client).
• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Administrator rights are requested on start: the application reads the game’s text out of the game’s memory. No .NET runtime to install: the release carries its own.
• Or Linux with the game running under Wine. See TataruHelper on Linux; this support is experimental.

Install

Windows

1. Download Setup.exe from the latest release.
2. Run it. If SmartScreen appears, select More info, then Run anyway.
3. Start the game, then Tataru Helper from the Start menu or the desktop shortcut (not Setup.exe again). Updates install themselves.
4. In the settings, pick the game language and the language you want to read, then place the overlay where you like.
5. In the game’s chat settings, turn on the message types shown below, on any tab:

A portable build, Portable.zip, is attached to every release.

Linux

curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NightlyRevenger/TataruHelper/master/scripts/linux/tataru-linux.sh
chmod +x tataru-linux.sh
./tataru-linux.sh install

The script finds the Wine your game runs on and starts Tataru Helper beside it. Details, what works, what does not yet, and troubleshooting are in Documents/Linux.md.

Translation engines

Kind	Engines
Free, no key or account	DeepL (through a bundled local relay), Google Translate, Yandex, Bing, Translate.com, ModernMT, Papago; Tencent TranSmart, Volcengine and Alibaba can be turned on
With your own key	DeepL API, Google Cloud, Azure Translator, Yandex Cloud, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, YandexGPT, OpenRouter
On your machine or server	Ollama, LM Studio, LibreTranslate

When an engine refuses a request, the next enabled one takes over. How to set each one up is in the Guide.

Documentation

• Guide (по-русски): every settings page explained.
• TataruHelper on Linux (по-русски).
• FAQ and troubleshooting, in several languages.
• Reading the game: how dialogue is read out of the game, for anyone changing that part.
• Video: YouTube demonstration.

Contributing

• Questions and ideas: Discord or issues.
• Code: pull requests are welcome; read CONTRIBUTING.md first.
• Translating the interface: Crowdin.
• Security problems: SECURITY.md.

Credits

Thanks to all contributors and the projects that helped make Tataru Helper possible:

• TataruHelper by NightlyRevenger: the original, which this is a fork of
• TataruHelper by progneo: the fork this one carries on from
• Sharlayan: reads the game’s text out of its memory
• XIV Rus Translation: the hand-made Russian translation
• WPF Toolkit
• NHotKey.Wpf
• NotifyIcon WPF
• Velopack: the installer and updater
• Tataru Art by Nezusagi

Doing the same thing another way

If you play with Dalamud, it is worth knowing about Echoglossian: a plugin that translates dialogue inside the game rather than in an overlay beside it.

License

MIT