Thanks, guys. Encouragement helps.
You know what would also be really great? If one of you - maybe someone who's already played the game before and isn't worried about spoiling the experience - could play AFS in Mednafen (gotta be Mednafen) and get Esperknight and myself a bunch of savestates. As it stands, it's looking like the best way to locate all the text is to use savestate hacking. Right now, we don't have very much text dumped because we just haven't gotten that far into the game. I've beaten it once, but it was on a real system.
A savestate outside of every town before something new happens there, and maybe deep in dungeons before events, would do the job nicely. Saving me the time playing means I can spend it translating. Any takers? I think it's a 20 hour game or so. Probably 30 if you go slow and it's your first time, but definitely less if you use the fast-forward button in Mednafen smartly during the battles.