Gemma 4 is great at real-time Japanese - English translation for games

r/LocalLLaMA
Open Source AI AI Research

When Gemma 3 27B QAT IT was released last year, it was SOTA for local real-time Japanese-English translation for visual novel for a while. So I want to see how Gemma 4 handle this use case. Model: Unsloth's gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-UD-Q5_K_M Context: 8196 Reasoning: OFF Softwares: Front end: Luna Translator Back end: LM Studio Workflow: Luna hooks the dialogue and speaker from the game. A Python script structures the data (speaker, gender, dialogue). Luna sends the structured text and a system prompt to LM Studio Luna shows the translation.