The Japanese Ministry of Education mandates that students be taught 1945 kanji by the time they graduate high school. Beyond that are a few hundred more in common usage and kanji used in names.

You will definitely have to find out which ones the game uses for making your table. Not game will use all possible Kanji. They may use anywhere from none, to a few hundred, to one or two thousand. No 16-bit console game I've personally worked with had more than 1200 or so, but I'd imagine there are some with more.

I've been studying Chinese for a couple of years now so let me tell you this:

If you're going to study Kanji DON'T make the mistake I did and learn from scratch.

Learn the radicals. Kanjis are just a combination of a certain amount of limited radicals.

I hope you'll take my word on this.

I've said this before but, translating Kanji is actually the easiest part in Japanese, in my opinion.

Learning the functions of particle and the various inflections of verbs and adjectives is what really counts when trying to read Japanese.

I don't know if you needed this but:



良農業裔商議選員記運転者事
味試次難形適当同違正悪点
念残落格果受説接面験合指
約決？消流深案投洗打払折
備準到発線泊特絡連急談柤
注押意故路信局機関割交引
用器願知求台具取自窓由営
期産個価品資銀誌雑辞服紙
心報告々


With a good stroke recognition tool, translating those Kanjis will be a breeze.

In the screenshot you posted, the kanji are very clear as well, which isn't the case in so many games.