The thing to remember with ++ is that you don't HAVE to use machine translation with it, and in fact it's better if you just ignore that part entirely. It just gives that as an OPTION. The ideal is just to use the program as a handy template to keep track of what you've translated, and hopefully avoid breaking formatting or programming too much. It isn't THAT complicated, but it is worth reading the documentation for it (or watching some videos) beforehand, specifically in terms of the basics for MV games. If I remember right though, it's essentially 1. Import files from game 2. Enter translation line by line 3. Export translated files to make a translation package.