Bulk Slash! A New Translation and Dub of This AMAZING Sega Saturn Exclusive Mech Open World Game!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- For the longest time Bulk Slash was known to be an amazing Sega Saturn exclusive game but considering the entirety of the game was in spoken and written Japanese it was basically unplayable to English language audiences! Well thanks to fans we now have a fully translated and dubbed Bulk Slash on the Sega Saturn that we can all fully play and enjoy. It's a real retro gaming miracle!
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You have to love a good fan translation project...it brings an amazing game to a brand new audience! So translation theater is here to celebrate those amazing efforts!
Up next; Bulk Slash! The amazing part of this fan translation and dubbing of the Saturn's open world mech combat game just isn't that you can now understand the story...it's that you now have full english voice acting from your navigators which is basically essential to enjoy this 10/10 Sega Saturn exclusive! Retrogaming win! It really feels like a larger Burning Rangers from Sega!
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Thanks very much for the kind words! Bulk Slash has long been a Saturn fave and it's such a delight to see it reaching a new audience twenty-five years after its release. We're busy at work on our next Saturn project, so expect more of that good stuff pretty soon.
It’s a hell of a project! Good luck on the next one. If you want to do a preview just lmk. Happy to help get the word out :)
That's brilliant news! Thanks!
👍
Thanks for Your hard work, I have lot of fun with Bulk Slash and now I understood ending part of this game.
What’s the next project?
I provided the voice for Leone Rhodes and it was so much fun doing the recording for this game. As someone who loves to play games, I enjoyed this opportunity. Of course now when I play this game I feel embarrassed hearing my voice lol
I hope anyone who tries this game enjoys the dub. They got a lot of talented people for this.
I recognize your name :) awesome job. And I totally get it…I listen to my voice hours a week making these videos. Never sounds good to me 🤣
This is what’s awesome about the retro gaming community I highly appreciate the transition conversations they do, but now English voice actors this is exciting 👾🕹.
Yes the english voice acting was essential to the translation and its legit awesome
FANTASTIC coverage of a game we were robbed of in the West. Superb game and thanks for shining a light on this passion project - this community is amazing!!!! 💪🏻💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤩🤘🏻🤘🏻
It’s a 10/10 game no question
@@VideoGameEsoterica Literally about to order a banger repro of this immediately, hahaha
💪🔥🔥🔥
I was already sold, but I am a sucker for a killer soundtrack, so I'm all in! 😄😄😄 Thanks again!
Man! You’re really smashing out the content lately!
Plenty more where that came from too :)
Thanks for featuring this awesome game. Also, my friend Mampf worked on this localization project! Way to go, buddy!
Happy to feature it :)
I played this game with the translation on the MISTer Saturn core. It’s amazing!
It’s such a good game
i cant wait for the princess crown translation to finally finish
That will be a fun time for sure
Heard of the game when news about the fantrad project came out and was shocked at the level of quality of it all!!!
Hope this modified version will work on MiSTer, because it is DEFINITELY on my absolute must plays in 2023 when Saturn is completely there for MiSTer!
Also about the graphics and the art style: I can't NOT imagine what an Evangelion game with that engine and art style would've been like at that time 😍😭
I am sure it will work once the core is more mature
I absolutely LOVE using the twin sticks with Bulk Slash! They work perfectly and it highlights their lack of native support as that much more puzzling…
I can also confirm this translation patch works flawlessly with a Satiator on original hardware.
Good to know it works on Satiator too. I need to get one of those eventually
You're darn right it works with the Satiator ... a couple of us on the patch development team tested builds using our Satiators about 500 times, haha.
smart move!
@@VideoGameEsoterica I really enjoy my Satiator. I probably would’ve gone with a Terraonion MODE if the disk drive on my console had already gone out. Since it still works, though, I like retaining the option of using the original CDs. I do wish it was a bit less expensive.
Nothing beats spinning up an original disc IMO
And now we don't have to hear Leone say "SUGOI!" every other minute.
Makes a lot more sense this way
I just downloaded this to check out on my Steam Deck, it even has Retro Achievements!
I’ve yet to check out retro achievements but it’s a fun feature for sure
@@VideoGameEsoterica yeah, another cool feature created by the fan community, great to see!
And such a good game too
I was just playing this on my Steam Deck last night. Such a fun game.
How’s the Steam Deck? I meant to pre-order it and missed the date
Best "made for Saturn" game
(I've never played Saga)
Also where do you get the info Taito was involved with this game. Isn't CAProductions the dev and Hudson the publisher?
I must have mistyped Taito
Such a pity this never saw a Western release. At a time when the Saturn was regarded as an inferior 3d machine in the US, games like this and Grandia really showed what the system could do in the right hands.
Yes the Saturn could do what the PS1 could…you just needed a LOT better developer for Saturn to get it done vs PS1
I love the sprite + 3d aesthetic. N64 used this technique to great effect including Mariokart 64.
Yes its a nice mix of 3D and 2D
If only the saturn could render transparency
It can kind of with some tricks but not perfectly
@@VideoGameEsoterica so much dithering! The big black outlines around character sprites in some games also contribute to a slightly grimier look as well, despite this I have 2 saturns.
I myself had never heard of the game until I saw Matt McMuscles' recent What Happened episode on the Sega Saturn, where I saw bits and pieces of footage of the game and some music out of it, but not knowing what the name of the game is. That is until I came across a MiSTER FPGA video of Sega Saturn games being tested with the navigator in the thumbnail. That's when I looked up on the game's title and did some research on it.
Even though I'm mostly oriented to what Sega of America called it in their commericals for the Sega Saturn as "PlayThing" (funny name), given my extensive background with the platform since childhood, looking at the game extensively, it looks like this is so cool. I kinda wish this was also on "PlayThing" as well, since Hudson Soft (No this was not made by Taito as you claimed it was. Look at the bottom of the title screen.) did put some Bomberman titles and Bloody Roar on the platform, both of which I had known very well since I had played demos of on those European OPM demo discs way back when.
Even if the Sega Saturn was a powerful but very complex game system whose CPUs made it a nightmare for game developers to make games for it, I'm very impressed by the system's extensive Japanese library compared our very own. The very poor marketing decisions and mishandling as a result of all the pressure from the Japanese Sega towards the western Sega branches are what let the Sega Saturn flop very hard in the west.
I do say though, the Japanese Sega Saturn sure does have some really nice Ecchi-style games on it, and they are bloody brilliant! (Save for Pretty Fighter X.) Something which SCEI barely or never fully allowed on "PlayThing". This is where you can sometimes say: "Saturn [sometimes] does, what PlayStation't".
Yes Japan had almost all the good Saturn library. I’m excited for more people to discover more stuff once the MiSTer core is finished
I played this for the first time today at LIretro con, and it was absolutely spectacular. I might even emulate it tonight
I was even playing it on a Sega Pluto, that Adam Koralik? Brought so rad
And that policenauts you mentioned I didn’t know about that
Fun way to first play the game. Def gotta finish it!
@@VideoGameEsoterica you recommend any other games with this same art aesthetic with the polygons and the textures?
One of my favorite games ever is Megaman legends, and this just totally scratched my itch I need more lol
Not off the top of my head. It’s a pretty unique style. Maybe Ninpen Manmaru
@@VideoGameEsoterica I’ll check it out. That sounds awesome.
It’s a fun one
Don't forget the semi-dating elements :3
Haha didn’t feature that. Outside my interests
I appreciate the Policenauts music intro. 👍
haha thanks...felt right for the intro
It's a great translation of a great game! Happy to see you cover this one.
Just some feedback: if you're going to do capture from an emulator, in my opinion you should have it render at the original resolution of the console. Rendering geometry in HD means that people who haven't experienced the original won't know what it really looks like. Personally I think that HD geometry with 240p sprites and textures looks kind of weird anyway.
There's nothing wrong with capturing from emulation if you don't have a good capture solution for your Saturn, but there's tons of videos on retro youtube channels that do this HD rendering without even mentioning it, which I think is producing an unrealistic record of these games for people who never got to experience these consoles for themselves.
I believe it was rendered at internal res then upscaled, which I do with all my content. But I did it a bit ago so I'd have to go check
@@VideoGameEsoterica It's clearly rendered at a higher resolution, just look at those sharp edges on the polygons!
I totally do not mind internal resolution for me it is ok, I also use emulation and configure stuff to work as I like them to be.
That’s fair :)
Oh hell yeah! Always wanted to try this game
Its legit an amazing game and the effort to get it to English audiences is spectacular
Bulk Slash is amazing. I played through and maxed out every navigator just before the translation came out. I actually just got a retroid 2+ handheld yesterday with the main motivations being Bulk Slash and Bangai-O.
Bangai-O is a legit fun one too. Odd but fun
Awesome dude. I've never played this or heard of it. I'm gonna burn a copy today and give it a try
thats the spirit! report back with a review
I love how people wait 30 years for a translation instead of learning Japanese. I knew as kid that if I wanted to play these, I had to earn it. This is a great game.
#怠け者野郎
Not everyone has the brain for second languages. I graduated HS second in my class. College first in my class. I failed foreign language…hard. I just can’t transpose in my head in real time a diff language
@VideoGameEsoterica I owe it all to Policenauguts for motivation. I suppose being a U.S. military kid living in Japan for little while also helped a bit. I couldn't stand not being able to understand some games in Japanese, especially with endless access to them at the time. It's not too late to learn. As an adult, I learned some Spanish and Romanian as well. Those were motivated by women. 😁
Haha I think that probably helped a LOT
Working designs lives...
Except that in this case the rest of the game is intact and the translation is accurate.
I haven't quite gotten the hang of the controls yet though.
Funny this is today's game, we were talking about Saturn Homebrew and translations on the Shmup Junkies discord last night and I mentioned this translation as an example of big things coming to Saturn. We were also talking about Married with Children. The Set I just bought was in some Super Famicom pictures I sent.
haha I do love me some Al Bundy
@@VideoGameEsoterica he's only your icon everywhere else
I mean its Al!
@@VideoGameEsoterica there's a hack that needs to be made... Sotn but it's all Married with Children quotes.
Dracula is Peggy and Alucard is Al. Death can be Marcy. Shaft is Jefferson 😂
Great video..thx for showcasing this underrated gem for the kids out there. You didn't mention in the video, were you running this on your Saturn hardware, the new MiSTer core, or a Saturn Emulator?
I used emulation for this. Saturn core isn't ready for captures and my Saturn is stock and needs to spin up discs
@@VideoGameEsoterica Which emulator exactly did you use? It seems like there's quite a few for the Saturn. Also have you had any luck using the Twin Stick controls on any emulator? I enabled the control config in-game but then it doesn't register any button presses.
Honestly at this point I can’t remember but I think Mednafen
It's not Taito... it's Hudson.
Yes I misspoke there as I'd been capturing a Taito game right before. Or doing the VO. One of those two
Really good game. Beat it without a translation.
It’s a ton of fun for sure
You should be more popular!
Lol I agree. But the algorithm doesn’t
Looks great! It's a shame that ebay prices are pretty high for this as-is.
Yes they certainly aren't cheap but nothing Saturn is these days
Finally got my MiSTer this week, can I play this on it?
No Saturn core for the mister. It’s notoriously difficult to emulate.
@@sunekoo One is in development, just not sure how far along it is.
@@sunekoo there is a Saturn core being worked on - but it will take a few more months before it's going to be ready for prime-time.
You can, not well yet
There is a core already. Its alpha
Cannot understand why this was not released in the west, Sega was utterly moronic regarding to the SS library in the west, is just so ridiculous.
This game is a technological masterpiece that shows how powerful was the SS, plus is very fun.
I mean maybe Taito had no interest either. Not 100% on Sega that we know of
The saturn was a big success and had a longer life span in japan.
Exponentially bigger
is this hardware or an emulator?
Mednafen I believe
Will there be a physical release of this game?
I am not aware of one. That would be quite a task
@@VideoGameEsoterica It would be interesting if some company like Retro-bit made an edition with this translation.
I don't know if it's difficult or worthwhile to acquire the publishing rights to these Saturn games, but it would be very successful I imagine games like Panzer Dragon RPG, Policenauts and etc.
that would be a fun time for sure
Does this work on emulators
It does :)
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:)
Yet another Saturn game Bernie stolar refused to let western players get their hands on.
He hated us and kept the best stuff for us
the japanese version isnt even remotely unplayable
I’d disagree. It makes it much more difficult to navigate
@@VideoGameEsoterica much more difficult ≠ basically unplayable
glad we're in agreement