Oh man, I love .hack!! I have the first 4 games for PS2. If I had the game you're doing, I'd totally give the translating a try
Your text files are all random characters for some reason, so I can't read them either... So you're on a team of legit PS2 programmers? You should let me in your group to translate for you especially since I'm a programmer too :-Þ Anyway, good luck releasing it 'cause I wanna play it!