Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires - How to Individually Change Any Character's Stats (PS3 Mod) and Some Codes

Recently, I've been experimenting with individually altering character stats in saved games on Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires for the Playstation 3 and have been fortunately successful doing so.

One dominant reason which resulted in me ensuing this was so I could lower my controlled character's stats and raise enemy officer stats (particularly attack, health and defense), enabling lengthier combos as officers tends to be annihilated a bit too quickly for my liking. Of course, one could easily reverse that and raise their own character stats to abnormal amounts and the enemy to nothing. Personal choice is a wonderful thing, ain't it?

Anyway, that's probably not important to you—you want to just know how to change a character's stats to anything you want, correct? Well, I'll show you how!

First things first, you'll need the obligatory and rehashed on this blog Bruteforce Save Data. Be sure to download the latest version and update the database pronto (also, run the program as an administrator). I assume you already know how to use Bruteforce Save Data, but if you happen to not, read up a bit on it here and here.

Second, you'll need a save game present on Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires to modify. No, I'm not talking about system data (which cannot be decrypted at the time being), but a save game such as an Empire Mode save and quick save.

Pick the game save you want to use and open it with Bruteforce Save Data, decrypt it and open it with HxD as usual.

You first need to pick the character you want stats changed, taking note of that character's current stats.

In this tutorial, I will change my controlled character's stats (ruler). You can choose any character you wish, as long as that character is present in your current game and you can view their stats.

The first important thing is to view the character's current stats and convert them to hex.

IMPORTANT: You must remove all of your character's item equipments (if you are using any) for this to work. You can re-equip them after you are done changing the stats. Weapons and mounts can be left alone. This only applies to characters you control.

Here is a screenshot of my ruler's stats:

Excuse the Japanese. English version will have no difference aside from language.

Convert the first four stat numbers to hex using this online tool. Four should be sufficient to isolate the specific character and anything less you'll run into the possibility of editing the wrong character.

In my instance, health (520) would be 208, attack (410) would be 19A, defense (550) would be 226 and leadership (510) 1FE.

Put them together IN ORDER and you will get: 208 19A 226 1FE

Now you would think that the hex above would be enough to search out in HxD and change, right? WRONG. This is because KOEI is swapping the hex in Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires. If I searched 208 19A 226 1FE I would never find anything or anything relevant to the actual stat location.

First, if any of your pair of hex are three digits, you will need to prefix a 0 to each one, such as: 0208 019A 0226 01FE

Two digits, you will need to prefix a 00. One digit prefix a 000. Four digits, do not prefix anything. The rule is to keep all pairs of hex four digits.

What you have to do now is to swap the hex. So 0208 019A 0226 01FE = 0802 9A01 2602 FE01.

Notice how the first two digits and last two digits of each pair of hex are swapped around. You must do this for all pairs of hex.

Example again:
0208 > 0802
019A > 9A01
0226 > 2602
01FE > FE01

Now with that hex swapped, you can finally search it using HxD and start changing values.

This is what the search results leads to, spot on!
And here is a general idea of which pair of hex correlates to which stat:

But remember, you have to input your new desired hex swapped as well. So if I wanted 1000 for health, attack, defense and leadership, the hex will be E803 E803 E803 E803 (and not 03E8 03E8 03E8 03E8).

Results of change. Red indicates altered values.

Once you are done, encrypt the game save and presto! You've changed your character's stats! Best of all, it doesn't affect any other character other than the one you changed.

SATISFACTORY!

Tip: Once you have obtain the offsets for a certain character's stats, you can reuse those offsets again next time in any game (even a different one from the the one you modified) without redoing all the stats to hex conversion above.

You can also change your materials, money and unit likely in the same manner.

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me at: rubypeace13@gmail.com.

Have fun!

P.S: Want to completely destroy your game and possibly have KOEI coming after your ass? Try these easy to use codes (WORKS ON NTSC/EU VERSIONS ONLY):

[All Characters Max Stats (Except Speed)]
4203F63A 9F860100
43A6005C 00000000
4203F64E E803E803
43A6005C 00000000
4203F652 E803E803
43A6005C 00000000

[All Characters - Max Aptitudes]
4203F65A 64646464
43A6005C 00000000

[Max Matterials 999999]
42005BF4 905F0100
402800E4 00000000

[Max Money 999999]
42005BF8 9F860100
402800E4 00000000

[Max Unit 999999]
42005BFC 905F0100
402800E4 00000000

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New Code to Mass Remove Affinity from All Your Weapons in Dynasty Warriors 8 (Playstation 3) + Xtreme Legends Findings

GOODBYE WARNING SIGN! NO ONE IS GOING TO MISS YOU!

This is an update to the post - How to Disable Weapon Affinity in Dynasty Warriors 8 (Playstation 3).

I've created a code to now remove affinity from all weapons in your collection in Dynasty Warriors 8 for Playstation 3. Just simply decrypt your game save in Bruteforce, apply the cheat code, encrypt and you're now affinity free for all weapons that you currently own! No hex searching and editing required! Of course, you have to reapply the code when you obtain new weapons.

[Remove Affinity for All Weapons in Collection]
40015D43 000000FF
47260018 00000000

You can still manually remove affinity from specific weapons only by doing it the hex method, as described in the original post. This is just an easy way to get rid of affinity entirely with little work.

Remember, put Cyclone (a low to high level) as one of your elements on each weapon you decide to use without affinity.

You can use the following code to mass change all elements on all weapons in your collection:

[All Weapons Elements Change]
42015D45 0CXXXXXX
47260018 00000000
41015D49 0000XXXX
47260018 00000000

Replace each XX with your desired element. See the weapon modding guide for element values. First 0C is for Cyclone, I suggest you do not change it. 

[All Weapons Elements Level 10]
42015D4B 0A0A0A0A
47260018 00000000
41015D4F 00000A0A
47260018 00000000

Xtreme Legends Testing Results: Do not attempt this on Xtreme Legends for now. Removing affinity in Xtreme Legends will cause the game to freeze. The reasoning behind it is because Xtreme Legends added gray affinity, which equates to the game's new "no affinity". Unit Commanders are the only enemies you will see with gray affinities. Attempting to use gray affinity on your own weapons will cause the game to crash, with reasons only the game developer will know.

In the original version of Dynasty Warriors 8, there is no such thing as gray affinity and removing affinity will always result in your affinity being red (during battle). Even though red, you are still technically affinity free (and also freeze free).

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How to Disable the Affinity System in Dynasty Warriors 8 (Playstation 3)

Do you not like the weapon affinity system present in Dynasty Warriors 8? Well, there is now an easy way to totally annihilate it using the magic value of FF (we'll get onto that in a little bit). By removing it, the combat system essentially returns back to its former Dynasty Warriors 7 days, where you wouldn't have to worry about which affinity to use. Additionally, there would be no storm rush, no variable counter and most importantly, being able to stagger/hitstun every enemy officer in the game regardless of what affinity they have.

So how do you do it exactly? Well, it's actually nothing new at all. Remember when I wrote the weapon modding guide for Dynasty Warriors 8 a long time ago? Remember the part where you could change your weapon's affinity to Heaven, Earth and Man? If so, basically all you need to do is instead of choosing Heaven (00), Earth (01) or Man (02); you replace that value with FF. This renders the weapon in particular to have no affinity whatsoever. No affinity = no inferior or superior affinity to worry about.

CHANGE AFFINITY VALUE TO FF

If you don't understand what I just said, you should definitely read up on the weapon modding guide. It's not just for the sake of removing affinity, but for also learning how to mod your weapons and have full customization over them.

Regrettably, you can only remove affinity of weapons one at a time, or together as a batch work. There is currently no code yet to automatically remove affinity for all weapons in your possession. Hence, it does take an extra bit of work, but that bit of work may pay off extremely well for those interested.

1/25/2015 UPDATE: I created a code to automatically remove affinity all weapons in your collection, so you no longer have to resort to doing any hex editing. Just apply the cheat code to your Dynasty Warriors 8 game save on Bruteforce and you're affinity free!

[Remove Affinity for All Weapons in Collection]
40015D43 000000FF
47260018 00000000

On Dynasty Warriors 8 (non Xtreme Legends version), there is one side effect of removing affinity from your weapons. It will cause your weapons to do very little damage to enemy officers (on any difficulty). However, elemental and musou damage are not impacted. So if you use this, it's a MUST to put on your weapon a percentage damage element, preferably Cyclone. You can mass change all elements in your weapons by using the codes provided in this post.

I have tested this on the Playstation 3 version of Dynasty Warriors 8 for a few hours and it's fully functional. There are no game issues using it besides what is mentioned above. No crashes and no freezes. 

Doing this on Xtreme Legends is not recommended due to frequent game freezes. Read this updated post for more information on why.

Below is a small demo video of removing affinity in action (notice green affinity vs red/null). I purposely added Cyclone only on the Dragon Spear to show you the damage bug. The damage bug is very apparent in the Dual Hookblades, but the Dragon Spear shows off how elemental and musou damage are not affected.

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Samurai Warriors 4 Weapon Modding Now Possible on PS3!

All you modders can happily rejoice, as Samurai Warriors 4's game save can now be successfully decrypted with Bruteforce Save Data without corruption, thanks to chaoszage's Samurai Warriors 4 Checksum Fixer Tool. If you are unfamiliar with what decrypting a game save does, it essentially destroys the encryption and allows editing of its data. This makes it possible to make all sorts of changes to your game save's data, including of course the modification of weapons.

This is pure software without the need of devices such as Game Genie or Cyber Save Editor.

So here's basically how you do it:

First, you need to have the latest version of Bruteforce Save Data installed. If not, you should at least have updated your cheats repository to the latest database.

Second, you'll need chaoszage's Samurai Warriors 4 Checksum Fixer Tool. Without this tool, you will end up with corruption after decrypting and encrypting. You can download it here.

Open your Samurai Warriors 4's game save using Bruteforce Save Data, decrypt it, edit the data as you would normally (or apply cheats), run the Checksum Fixer Tool on the game save, then encrypt it with Bruteforce Save Data.

Transfer the game save to your PS3 and you should be good to go!

Weapon Modification Codes and Skill Values:

All 1st Weapon Skills Mod
42003884 05050505
403c0110 00000000
42003888 05050505
403c0110 00000000
4200388c aabbccdd
403c0110 00000000
42003890 eeffgghh
403c0110 00000000
42003894 05050505
403c0110 00000000
42003898 05050505
403c0110 00000000
4200389c 02020202
403c0110 00000000
420038A0 02020202
403c0110 00000000

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/730732-samurai-warriors-4/faqs/69237
Use link above to refer the skills effects

Fill aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff,gg,hh with value below:

00   Potency
01   Range
02   Counrage
03   Impact
04   Fury
05   Underdog
06   Momentum
07   Clarity
08   Verity
09   Concentration
0A   Fortitude
0B   Stability
0C   Elasticity
0D   Bravery
0E   Determination
0F   Resolve
10   Nullification
11   Zeal
12   Conviction
13   Resurrection
14   Alacrity
15   Blaze
16   Shock
17   Frost
18   Wind
19   Diamond
1A   Reaper
1B   Rampage
1C   Impulse
1D   Awakening
1E   Cavalry
1F   Equestrian
20   Connoisseur
21   Collector
22   Hoarder
23   Constitution
24   Expert
25   Endurance
26   Paladin
27   Stimulus

Modding weapons directly with a hex editor:

You could theoretically mod the weapons without using the code above directly via a hex editor, if you require only specific weapons be altered. Again, this process should be identical to Dynasty Warriors 8. Write down your weapon's skills in hex as it appears in order, then use the search function in a hex editor to replace skills. This process has not yet been tested, so there is no guarantee yet of it working.

Some other fun codes if you're THAT lazy:

Max Gold
20007842 000F423F

Max Kills
2000784A 05F5E0ff

All Gems Max
200078BC 63636363
200078C0 63636363

All Chars Proficiency Max
42000C44 14141414
403C0044 00000000

All 1st Weapon Becomes Rare
40003883 00000000
403c0110 00000002

Notice: This is all specifically for the US/EU versions of Samurai Warriors 4. If you need codes and values for the Japanese version, visit savedata.jp.

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Just Got My Largest Check Yet from SurveySavvy!

Here is proof that yes, you can indeed make a decent amount of money online filling out surveys and that not every one of them are scams. This check was from SurveySavvy, one of my favorite paid consumer survey/research sites that I detailed in this earlier post and currently the only one I'm engaged to.

In fact, more than $200 of this money was from essentially not doing anything but filling out a few five minute surveys and installing some software (that you can leave alone once installed) on a computer, tablet and smartphone. The software is called SavvyConnect and it basically just monitors what websites you visit (using it for research purposes obviously). They pay heavily for using this software. I get offers from $50-$200 in projects that involve using SavvyConnect. Like I said, the best part is not having to do anything but leave the software installed and take a few short surveys from time to time.

I have another $225 check coming shortly from SurveySavvy. Booyah!

So if you are interested, definitely consider joining SurveySavvy, check out their SavvyConnect software (install it) and start earning some extra cash very easily.

But wait, you will want to use my referral link to sign up: https://www.surveysavvy.com/?m=233689

That way, you and I can both earn a extra percentage of each other's earnings.  Don't worry, we won't lose any of our earnings. Hence, there's nothing to lose for both of us!

P.S: In no way am I being paid by SurveySavvy to post this. These are all my honest words and experience and I'm simply providing information on how to earn some money online easily.

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Tool to Decrypt Second Layer of Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Available

I should have posted this bit of news earlier, but thanks to chaoszage, you can successfully decrypt the second layer of Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends with a free Windows program that requires no  hardware or devices.

As you may have recalled, Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends (along with all newly released KOEI games) has incorporated double layer encryption security for save files. Up until now, the only method of fully decrypting the game saves required usage of paid devices, such as Game Genie and PS3 Cyber Save Editor.

Why would you need to decrypt the game save? Plenty of scenarios—if you want to resign it to another user's profile/PS3, mod your save data, transfer regions, etc.

The guide for usage is included in the download. Remember that you need to pair the decrypter with Bruteforce Save Data. First layer of decryption is done via Brutefroce and the second layer is with this tool.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TOOL

Have fun, and don't spoil yourself!

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Sengoku Musou 4 100% Platinum Game Save

Anyone looking for a 100% complete and platinum trophy status game save for Sengoku Musou 4 (Samurai Warriors 4) is in luck, as I have that very such thing here for free download.

Benefits of this game save:

• 100% Story Mode and Chronicle Mode completion
• All characters unlocked
• All CAW parts unlocked
• Level 50 + max proficiency and stats for every character
• Treasure weapons obtained for all characters
• Max gold and gems
• All trophies unlocked
• And more!

This game save does not need to be resigned, as anyone can freely save over it without issues. The only part that is disallowed is gaining any sort of trophy with it. Since every new KOEI TECMO game now uses double layer encryption for game saves, you must use a third party device such as Game Genie or PS3 Cyber Save Editor to resign.

Again, use only as necessary.

DOWNLOAD SENGOKU MUSOU 4 GAME SAVE

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Game Genie with Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends

You may have remembered I posted a guide on this blog on how to mod your weapons in Dynasty Warriors 8 via Windows software Bruteforce Save Data.

Mod?! What a crime, you say! But nah, this came into existence dominantly because the majority of people, including myself, absolutely dreaded the awful weapon tempering system in the game originally. Modding weapons was therefore a way to relieve yourself (your temper, not your pants) of this agony and have some actual fun with the game once again. It was also useful for test purposes, e.g. testing out different element builds.

Albeit the weapon tempering has gotten much better and almost perfected in Xtreme Legends, people who have used it have been kind of spoiled, apparently. They desired to mod their weapons (and other bits) in Xtreme Legends as well, even though the only thing that urges any modding now is the endless grinding and farming the game requires.

I have to maybe pause and say that some things are better left in secret. KOEI has caught onto our shameful tactics and in defense have double layer encrypted their game saves starting from DW8:XL and onwards. This means that Bruteforce Save Data can no longer be used to decrypt the game saves in order to modify their data. Even worse, the developer of Bruteforce Save Data has withdrawn development of the software entirely and pulled it off from his own website. Oddly, I still can't find reasoning of the sudden departure, but this may potentially mean the road will look very bleak for support of newer games, even for mere profile resigning.

Nevertheless, double layer encryption is not foul proof. It can still be destroyed via third party devices such as Game Genie (English) and Cyber Save Editor (Japanese). Yes, Game Genie still exists and not a mere distant memory from the 90s. I know for a fact that Cyber Save Editor has added support for the latest KOEI games such as DW8:XL and SW4 (as documented at savedata.jp). These are of course the Japanese versions. There is still uncertainty that English versions of these games are supported in Cyber Save Editor (Japanese do play our games too, ya know?!)

Anyway, onto the most important part—viewer T Blipz has written the following message to me through e-mail and declares I should let everyone know of this. Hence, I shall not let him down.

He states that basically Game Genie can now decrypt DW8:XL and allow hex editing:

Therefore, if you want to continue to mod stuff in DW8:XL, then Game Genie (English games) or Cyber Save Editor (Japanese games) will be your only bets. The best thing is that Game Genie is a mere 30 bucks, compared to $50-$100 for Cyber Save Editor.

Now stop asking me how to mod stuff in DW8:XL. :) And I have no experience in either of these and never used them, so please don't ask me how to use them. Besides, I believe there are already a few guides on the internet for both.

Finally, I wonder what KOEI will do now knowing of this evil I just unleashed through the bag... *Gulp*

tl&dr: DW8:XL cannot be used with Bruteforce Save Data; however, you can now overcome that with Game Genie.

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Translate In-Game Japanese Text with OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

I know that a lot of my viewers are interested in playing imported games, particularly newly released Japanese titles or earlier titles that were unfortunately pushed off into the abyss for English or other international audiences. While I think the idea is wholly crazy for reading intensive games such as RPGs, it's otherwise alright for games that are rather light on it, such as action games in veins of KOEI's Warriors series.

To help your experience be less of a misery, I'm going to share with you a useful tool you can use yourself to quickly translate in-game Japanese text to English, or whatever other language you desire. Now if you are already fluent in Japanese as I mostly am, you can still use it for a dozen other languages and not just for games either. I've used this tool myself to translate Chinese, Korean, German and Russian text to English from games, movies, video clips and television shows (none of which I'm fortunately any adept in).

The tool in question is called OCR, or Optical Character Recognition. If you haven’t heard about it yet, it essentially allows you to grab specific sections of text in a picture/screenshot and converts them to machine-encoded/computer-readable format, which is text that you can manipulate freely on your PC including copying and pasting into a translator.

OCR is widely available as both online web embedded services or via downloaded software. There are additionally both free and paid versions; free versions offering basic functionality with less accuracy while paid offering higher accuracy and more features.

Before we dive into anything, let’s briefly go over the prerequisites. You’re going to need the following:

1.) A computer that preferably has access to the internet.
2.)  OCR software.
I tend to favor and prefer ABBYY Screenshot Reader, included in ABBYY FineReader. Although it is paid software, it has worked mostly flawlessly for me converting virtually any text in any language in screenshots to computer-readable with high accuracy. If you visit their website, you can download a free, fully featured trial of the software. Albeit its rather hefty price tag, I highly recommend purchasing as it is one of the best OCR software available on the internet.

Do not download or purchase ABBYY Screenshot Reader individually, as you will not be receiving Asian language support with it.

If you prefer to go the free route, there are numerous free OCR services available, both as online web embedded and via downloaded software. Be wary that a lot of them do not support Asian languages.

Capture2text is a free downloadable OCR software with Asian language support and specific section/text area capturing:
http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/

Here are some free OCR web embedded services that have Asian language support:
http://newocr.com
http://maggie.ocrgrid.org/nhocr/
http://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-japanese-ocr (Japanese only) 

Keep in mind that I have no experience or knowledge with Capture2text or any online based OCR services, let alone free ones. All I ever use is the fantastic ABBYY Screenshot Reader. Nevertheless, a simple Google search will yield more results, if the above ones are not favorable or working for you.

The following is necessary if you desire game console support (e.g. PS3, Xbox 360, etc.):
3.) A capture card or device compatible with your game console.
The capture card or device is necessary because we require a method to take screenshots in the game with the text we want converted/translated, so we can then run OCR on it. Now, you may get away substituting this with a camera, but since most OCR requires the text in the picture be very clear and precise, a capture card or device will undoubtedly work much better.

If you want to do this on PC games, then you can simply use "Print Screen" command.

Alright, now with the prerequisites and boring things aside, let’s get into the actual process!

Let’s say for example you're playing Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate right now on your PS3, pretend you don’t know Japanese and really like to know what the highlighted text said.

Now being that it’s a game, you can’t really just copy the text and paste it into a translator, could you? You could possibly manually convert the text into computer-readable by finding out which letter is which (using some sort of Japanese dictionary or characters list) and typing it out one by one on the computer. But let’s face it, that’s going to take until Hell freezes over and infinite eye strain, especially given the amount of Kanji that exists!

Well, fear not, as this is where OCR comes to save the day! It will easily convert the text to computer-readable for you in the speed that it takes you to type a sentence or less.

So the first thing you have to do is take a screenshot of the screen with the text on it you want converted, utilizing your capture card or device. If you're on a PC game, print screen should work dandy. Remember, you can also attempt to use a camera if you're on a game console and have no access to a capture device. That may or may not work, depending on how large, clear and prominent the text comes out on the photo.

The next step is to run OCR on the screenshot. For this purpose, I'm going to be using ABBYY Screenshot Reader exclusively. Methods and instructions will vary upon the OCR being used. In my case, I'm going to show you how easy and fast it is to use ABBYY Screenshot Reader.

Here ABBYY Screenshot Reader can be launched directly from the Start Menu after installing ABBYY FineReader:

In order to change language to Japanese or any other Asian language, click on the Language drop down menu and select "More languages...":

In the Language Editor window, Asian languages, including Japanese can now be selected under "Asian Languages". Be sure to uncheck any other languages that have already been enabled, such as the default English. If you have more than one language selected, the software will attempt to read all of those languages in the screenshot, which may make the results not come out what you'd expect.

After clicking OK and confirming that you only have one sole language selected, you can now go ahead and click on the capture screenshot button (the big button with the notepad and clipboard icon to the right). However; before doing that, you have to make sure the screenshot the software needs to read from is already opened in a picture viewer, fully zoomed to 100% and non-hidden/obstructed on the screen. Because once you click on that button, it will essentially freeze everything on the screen.

Click the capture screenshot button to start the reading process, but do not click it until your screenshot is launched in a separate window, fully zoomed to 100% and non-hidden/obstructed on the screen.

After clicking that button, the ABBYY Screenshot Reader window will disappear and your cursor will transform into a crosshair.

What you basically wish to accomplish here is to simply just drag and select the section of text you want the screenshot reader to read and copy from.

It might consume a few lousy seconds, but once it's done its magic, that bit of text that is in the screenshot should be correctly converted and additionally copied to the clipboard.

We can find that out by simply opening a software that can input text (such as Notepad) and clicking Control + P to paste.

So here are the results of attempting to run ABBYY Screenshot Reader on that specific section of Japanese text in that Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate screenshot:

In comparison to the actual text that appears in the game, it read it 100% perfectly!

The next step is, as you have guessed, copy that bit of text and paste into a translator. My main web translator of choice is Google Translate, but if results fair poorly for you, I also recommend Babylon Translation or Babelfish.

After running that bit of Japanese text on Google Translate, this is what it returned:

Google Translate doesn't do a fantastic job on translation, especially regarding Japanese to English, generating broken Engrish a fair majority of the time. Regardless, it should be enough most of the time for you to get a general idea of what the text means. Here, I can pretend that I can only read the English, so to my understanding it basically means that turning this on will cause enemy morale to raise greatly at the start of the battle.

Now if you still don't understand it after the above translation, you are welcome to torment ask me to give you a proper translation that doesn't make anyone's mind melt in confusion (Japanese only of course). No OCR necessary, just send me the screenshot or text directly. :)

And that pretty much concludes this guide on OCR. You can envision other endless possibilities you can have with OCR, given all the possible languages it can read from. Of course and like I already indicated, it doesn't have to be Japanese or be a game. I honestly think every person who enjoys foreign media and games should have knowledge on how to effectively use OCR, and most certainly ABBYY Screenshot Reader.

One last thing I want to mention is that any OCR, even ABBYY Screenshot Reader, isn't a miracle product by any means. Meaning, it's not going to perfectly read all text you hand to it. If you desire perfect or near perfect results, you have to make sure whatever text in your screenshots you want read from is as crisp, clear and in large font as possible. The text should additionally have no background behind the text, straight (not crooked) and be single colored. Vertical text is fine as long as it's straight.

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