I spent the day setting up my new Retroid Pocket Nova, focusing specifically on Japanese games that were never released in English. The only problem is there are dozens of ROM variants, with different translators, goals, and extent of modifying the original game.

In years past I would have had to:

• Find discussions about each available patch
• Read page after page of opinions
• Try to come up with a summary of the key differences
• Decide which one is a best match for my preferences

Thanks to AI, though, I can just prompt my LLM of choice with my preferences at the beginning, like: " My goal is to enjoy the games with minimal changes to gameplay, with a focus on accurate translation from the original Japanese text to English. With that in mind, please tell me which is best for each of the following games."

Then, one after another, copy/paste the list of available patches as a prompt with no additional input, and within seconds the LLM tells me which version is the closest match to my ideal. That's cutting down a 2-3 hour process into ten second and it is glorious!

Now I have more time to spend on actually enjoying the games, rather than researching all the patches and risk running into spoilers as I read through the differences.

On top of that, it can guide me to games I never even knew existed! I can say "please tell me the top ten games of {genre(s) of my choice} that have fan translation patches for {platform I'm researching}. Rank based on critic reviews, user reviews, and whether the game is the definitive version on this platform." Within moments, I have dozens of recommendations finely tailored to exactly what I want! There's no equivalent to this rapid functionality without using AI.

AI is awesome! Wooooo!