diff --git a/localization/jak1/text/meta.yml b/localization/jak1/text/meta.yml
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+game_text_en:
+  version: "jak1-v2"
+  group-name: "common"
+  languages:
+    - en:
+        id: 0
+    - en_GB:
+        id: 6
+game_text_de:
+  version: "jak1-v2"
+  group-name: "common"
+  languages:
+    - de:
+        id: 2
+game_text_ja:
+  version: "jak1-v2"
+  group-name: "common"
+  languages:
+    - ja:
+        id: 5
diff --git a/scripts/translations/update-text-translations.py b/scripts/translations/update-text-translations.py
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+++ b/scripts/translations/update-text-translations.py
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+from tokenize import group
+import yaml
+
+with open("./localization/jak1/text/meta.yml", 'r', encoding="utf-8") as f:
+  meta = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+for gs_file_name, info in meta.items():
+  # Build up the file
+  language_ids = set()
+  output_lines = [
+    "(group-name \"{}\")\n".format(info["group-name"]),
+  ]
+  translations = []
+  for language in info["languages"]:
+    for lang_code, lang_info in language.items():
+      language_ids.add(str(lang_info["id"]))
+      file_name = "./localization/jak1/text/text.{}.yml".format(lang_code)
+      with open(file_name, 'r', encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        translations.append(yaml.safe_load(f))
+  output_lines.append("(language-id {})\n".format(" ".join(language_ids)))
+  output_lines.append("(text-version {})\n".format(info["version"]))
+
+  # Actually build up translated strings
+  # TODO - there are some potential edge-cases here around multi-language files
+  # what should happen if the string isn't defined in both?
+  # For now, just assuming everything is translated in both as this is only a uk english concern
+  string_dict = {}
+  for translation_file in translations:
+    for group_name, string_map in translation_file.items():
+      for string_id, string_val in string_map.items():
+        if group_name not in string_dict:
+          string_dict[group_name] = {}
+        if string_id not in string_dict[group_name]:
+          string_dict[group_name][string_id] = ["  \"{}\"".format(string_val)]
+        else:
+          string_dict[group_name][string_id].append("  \"{}\"".format(string_val))
+  # Create final output
+  for group_name, strings in string_dict.items():
+    output_lines.append("\n;; {}\n".format(group_name))
+    for string_id, translated_vals in strings.items():
+      if len(translated_vals) == 1:
+        output_lines.append("(#x{} {})\n".format(string_id, translated_vals[0].lstrip()))
+      else:
+        output_lines.append("(#x{}\n{})\n".format(string_id, "\n".join(translated_vals)))
+
+  output_path = "./game/assets/jak1/text/{}.gs".format(gs_file_name)
+  with open(output_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    f.writelines(output_lines)