Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks

Those ones were made in Japan so Chinese won't do you any better than English trying to talk to them

I found what looked like a compatible part from another manufacturer but it had 16 pins instead of 8 (there are multiple versions with different pin counts from 4 to 40). I'm still researching but if anyone else wants to help dig I found the other one by searching for connectors under "025 series".