Sega Saturn Fan Translations
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- Wanna play some formerly Japanese only Saturn games in English? Check this out!
Below are some links so you can download the patches for these games. If you don't own these already, a quick Google search should get you what you need.
VALHOLLIAN:
Credits-
aishsha
paul_met
Pennywise
TheMajinZenki
MatatabiMitsu
Translation Patch: www.romhacking...
GRANDIA:
Credits-
TrekkiesUnite118
Mr. Conan
nanash1
Cyber Warrior X
Translation Patch: www.romhacking...
VANDAL HEARTS:
Credits-
paul_met
Pennywise
TheMajinZenki
Guadozoku
aishsha
filler
Translation Patch: www.romhacking...
BULK SLASH:
Credits-
Greg Moore
Danthrax
Burntends
Ghaleon Unlimited
Mampfus
Knight0fDragon
Jiggle85
Shadowmask
SaturnDave
Translation Patch: segaxtreme.net...
SAKURA WARS:
Credits-
NoahSteam
TrekkiesUnite118
cj_iwakura
MatatabiMitsu
Schlomo
CrouchingMouse
Nezumi
Kate Robinson
Cal Hampton
Eben Williams
Margie Obendorf
Sarah Dopierala
Mason van Dyk
Eien Ni Hen
Joqu
Ibnu
Bowl of Lentils
Translation Patch: www.romhacking...
LUNAR SILVER STAR STORY:
Credits-
Mr Conan
Ms Tea
TrekkiesUnite118
Alunissage
CyberWarriorX
Suppertails66
Knight0fDragon
Translation Patch: segaxtreme.net...
COTTON 2:
Credits-
nanash1
Danthrax
Katrin
Translation Patch: www.romhacking...
CASTLEVANIA SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT:
Credits-
Knight0fDragon
TrekkiesUnite118
Translation Patch: segaxtreme.net...
LINKLE LIVER STORY:
Credits-
paul_met
aishsha
Pennywise
FlashPV
lestat (M0nsieurL)
Ryusui
harmony7
TheMajinZenki
Jazz
Midna
Translation Patch: www.romhacking...
SEGA AGES I LOVE MICKEY MOUSE & DONALD DUCK COLLECTION:
Credits-
TrekkiesUnite118
KnightOfDragon
Translation Patch: segaxtreme.net...
SAKURA WARS GBC PATCH:
www.romhacking...
FIRE PRO WRESTLING 6 MAN SCRAMBLE PATCH:
segaxtreme.net...
FIRE PRO BLAZING TORNADO PATCH:
segaxtreme.net...
GUN GRIFFON II PATCH PROJECT:
segaxtreme.net...
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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.
Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.
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Intro by Evan S.
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Episode Notes:
1. All games captured on a real Sega Saturn.
2. Support these people whenever possible. Their work is invaluable to the retro community. A few bucks here and there goes a long long way.
3. The Sega Saturn Patcher is a utility that does most of the work for you. Get it here and follow the directions.
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It is an incredible time to be a Sega Saturn fan. My sincerest thanks to the translation teams who give us gems after gems to keep the Saturn alive and well. I hope we get Princess Crown soon. It's my most awaited fan translation project. Great video as always Sega LordX
Fan Translator Groups are doing every Sega fan a favor, rectifying a mistake of not putting these games out to the World.
It’s incredible to finally have some of these easily playable on Saturn. Better late than never.
I really appreciate your content man. I often struggle some mornings but watching your videos before heading off to work puts me in such a better mood.
I look forward to every new instalment, thanks for your hard work.
I never had a Sega Saturn growing up but I'd love to get my hands on one today just to catch up on what I missed back in the day.
The Fan Translators working on all these projects are heroes pure and simple
Indeed. I'm glad the translators for Trails from Zero/to Azure got a job from the devs. Each of those games have more text than the LoTR book trilogy. Such a massive undertaking with no expectation to be compensated.
They are. I used to do it. I never tackled a project as big as any of these RPGs, and let me tell you, it's hard work.
I'm sure by now people have developed a lot of amazing tools to make some stuff easier, but when I did it you were literally opening a ROM in a hex editor and trying to make sense of it. We had tools to search for patterns which would HOPEFULLY reveal the font/text system. You'd find a word in the game, like "hello" and search for patterns in the ROM that had the same differences. H is the 8th letter in the alphabet. E is 5th, L is 12th, O is 15th, so the pattern there is --3, +7, +0, +3. So if you can find 5 bytes together with those differences, you may have just found the alphabet system in the game. So, apply a filter to the hex editor that says 0F=H, and extrapolate that below and above that value to map out the whole alphabet... you're still going to have to change stuff around and experiment a lot to find all the punctuation and special characters and weapon icons, and line breaks and other control characters...
That's what you do for the very simplest of ROM hacks... what the people in the projects in these videos have done is likely about 20x more complicated than that.
I haven't done it for MANY years, but some of the people who were doing it way back when I did are still at it and have really developed into professionals.
But yeah, the level of work these guys do is nuts. It's really fun to crack the code and make it all work though, if you're into that sort of thing.
Providing mostly non-professional, shitty translations 😂 👎
I remember Sakura Wars was such a huge thing in Japan. It was on all the media back then and probably the most hyped Saturn game, surpassing the coverage of many Playstation games
Is it an good game?
@@jjayala5512 the second one is much better. Third one on dreamcast as well
I remember an anime freak in school was in love with Sakura Wars, he was also a big Playstation freak as well. I think that I broke his heart when I told him that it was based off of a Japan only Saturn game. He had no idea.
@Deathstroke The Terminator thank you, English is not first and I needed human correction device in the computer. Can you help with all my comment
And even Sonic ...
Several PC Engine CD games are also getting modern fan translations. The Saturn and the Genesis have such different libraries, I kind of feel like the Saturn library is the next-gen of the PC Engine library. Both have massive catalogues of great, unique games that stayed in Japan.
The only thing the Genesis and Saturn seem to have in common is the solid library of shoot em ups, other than that most of the Genres the Genesis shined like platformers, sports games and beat em ups are mostly replaced by rpg's, fighting games or visual novels.
@@oscarzxn4067 right, which along with more shoot-em-ups than any other console, were all found on the PC Engine in the 4th generation. If you want a Saturn-like 16-bit (yes, I know it's actually 8-bit) console, it's the PC Engine + CD, bot the Genesis, even if you include the Sega CD.
The Japanese Saturn is kind of the unofficial sequel to the PC engine, Hudson soft clearly chose it over the PC fx
@@samlepirate4845 To be fair Hudson were supporters of all 3 consoles that gen, so I'd say that vibe is mostly given by most devs rather than only Hudson.
Hope to see the Japanese Sega CD version of Shadowrun done eventually!
I truly appreciate this it's crazy there's a few other projects going on not just fan translation. Hoping for so much more
DiGiValentine has done a whole bunch of work with a the NiGHTS beta as a matter of fact c: and I forget the other dude that he's currently actually remaking NiGHTS in the unity engine?! It's awesome
After hearing this soundtrack running on background, I must play shining force 3 for the eleventh time
the Shining Force III translations will always be the tops for me, i LOVE Shining Force III and getting to play the whole game rather than just Disc 1 that the states got, Shining Force Central's community has my sincerest thanks.
Same for me, I just reached the final boss in scenario 1, I really love the game and it's battle system, and I was never even a fan of RPG games
When they translated scenario 2 and 3, I literally cried! I waited so many years to play them!
@Wiegraf lol Fire Emblem is much harder in that regard, since when your troops fall in battle, they stay down. the trick is to level up your group as much as you can without it getting too grindy.
@Wiegraf you dont need them, you start leveling up via the first battle then onward, the Leader has a spell called Egress, you kill all enemies but the main enemy, then you have the Leader cast Egress and start the battle over again.
@Wiegraf They level up naturally, they are very weak at the beginning, the strategy of the game is how you position your characters and use their abilities to your advantage, keep distance to avoid being surrounded, use potions and healing spells, for me the final boss of sceniario 1 was the most difficult battle in the game because of how few characters I recruited throughout the game, I played it a bit carelessly, buying items and going straight to battle and ignoring everything else. I finally finished scenario 1 tonight, starting scenario 2 tomorrow.
After seeing the Bulk Slash voice work, it made me realize that I can actually contribute in the homebrew community.
I do a lot of community theater & radio shows so I would love to get a chance to voice a character in a Saturn translation/localization project.
Whoa!
The Bulk Slash fan translation is amazing, they really went all out
@@dexocube It is inspiring and I think it maybe a turning point for the Saturn community.
At this rate the quality will only rise from here and now there’s a standard to meet.
@@dexocube I couldn't agree more, the amount and quality of the work is astonishing!
I'm hoping we someday get Silhouette Mirage, Nanatsu Kaze, and Baroque.
Thanks Sega Lord for this great video. Does anyone knows a place that explains the different way to play these titles? To play Sega Saturn titles. Any way. I have a Sega Saturn model 2 (fully mine) and a Saturn model 1 (bought in 1996 with my brother). I bought long time ago Policenaut the only time I visited Japan (thanks to a physics conference) but of course is in Japanese (I wish I had bought more games!!)
I'm looking for an overview on how to play these Saturn games that involves: original hardware on new tvs, and emulators, and how to patch them. And I wonder if Sega lord or anyone did something about it.
I'll check myself again and see if I found anything.
I got a video coming up covering some of that info. Stay tuned.
Bro Saturn has so many good games that never made to US/UK it's crazy. Sega literally shot themselves in the foot. Sony was brave enough to bring new IP's to west. That is why they ares till in the game.
My bad, according to "experts" at G4TV: Sony is "dead man walking" REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
It's the same as Sony. There are hundreds of japanese only PS1 games(which is the same for every Sony console)
I keep up pretty well with the Saturn translation scene, and I appreciate you showing it some love. I'm still anxiously awaiting the day I can play Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You in English on my Saturn. Probably not your sort of game if you don't like Sakura Wars, but I'm insanely curious about it.
I cannot stress enough how much I appreciate these talented and dedicated translators in the community.
Thank you for your hard work and dedication.
Panzer Dragoon Saga was more "Saturn Final Fantasy VII" than Grandia.
Grandia charismatic characters and epic sense of adventure makes it "the Saturn Chrono Trigger".
Agreed!
The one i am waiting for, for almost a decade now, is Princess Crown. The work on it is so slow and updates are so rare it's really frustrating. I wish they would at least release unfinished builds or something like that.
Sega Lord X: I'm not a fan of Sakura Wars
Me: Hand over your Saturn card 😾
Hey, I’m working my way through it. Slowly. Maybe with time it’ll grow on me.
I love Sakura Wars. From the time i started up the English translation I was blown away.
Love Bulk Slash and it’s new translation, I’ve been playing it almost non-stop since it came out. Looking forward to the eventual Bulk Slash review, it’s probably my favorite Saturn game.
I am glad that you got to enjoy Bulk Slash :)
I have so many things to say but, in short, Sega Saturn is a console that deserved so much love from us but it never received it and nearly faded into existence and now these fans translations and how people are enjoying them is like our apology letter to the Sega Saturn console. I am glad that Saturn is finally getting the love it deserves.
Always preferred the sega cd lunar games over the remakes, the remakes getting rid of random battles made grinding an absolute chore.
@@FloridaEbikes Yeah I had the sega cd ones back in the day and the PS1 remakes, grinding was absolutely horrid on ps1.
What I want to know, is WTF happened with the music on every port and "upgrade" remaster? SegaCD (US) opening music makes the cinematic a thumping, exciting call to adventure. The others are like.. slow, smaltzy anime soap. And they replace most of the other absolutely rocking tracks. Just one of the best ever soundtracks, and every "upgrade" guts it completely. I'd love the upgraded visuals with OG music and sound.
Damn, when you showed Soul Hackers in the intro I was hoping that it had gotten a translation too. I know it's on the 3DS, but I want to play it on my Saturn or PS1.
Sakura Wars is fantastic, probably the best Saturn game. It took me a few times before it captured me, I highly recommend giving it another shot
Appreciate the FirePro shout outs :)
As a huge fan of the Saturn, and as someone who would dream about playing these games as I read about them in the magazines in 1998, I have to say that each time a new translation is announced, I always feel like crying out of happiness. It took more than 20 years for these games to be translated, but here they are. I am so thankful to all the translators and hackers out there. You've made this grown man cry more than once, especially with Grandia, Lunar and Castlevania SOTN. Bulk Slash, Policenauts and Sakura Wars were huge surprises, too. And now that Wachenroder, Princess Crown and Baroque are underway, we have even more to look forward to!
You know Sega of America's president at the time is quoted as saying "Americans don't want to play RPGs". Sega should have given him a copy of FFVII as his severance and the FFVII sales figures as his termination letter. That would have been retribution for all of the games we were deprived of in the west.
Waiting:
Sakura Wars 2
langrisser 3/4/5
Super Robot Wars F
The legend of heroes III white witch
“Slather up a giant shit sandwich with mayonnaise.” Wtf my dude, CHIIIIIILLLL lol
But a solid yes. Derek Pascarella and others have really put in serious work to bring these treasures to us in the SEGA SATURN & SEGA DREAMCAST communities.
It’s been a great few years for retro gaming.
Doubtlessly, the pandemic and working from home really accelerated these types of things, despite slowing down many other things.
Sakura is pronounced sah' - koo - rah... (the k is soft) it's not "sack 'uhra ",
and IMO Sakura Wars I & 2 are the best of the series,
and when I played them on the Saturn when they first were released. it was like playing an interactive anime OVA series and they're great games IMO
I hope that Slayers Royal 1 and 2 for the Sega Saturn will get a fan translation one day! Out of the existing translations I only played Sakura wars though.
If they do they may be able to get Lisa Ortiz to reprise her role from the anime. She recently participated in the Bloody Roar 2 redub project.
@@davidgill7412 oh! I didn't know that! It would be cool if the games would be dubbed one day! I hope at least for a subbed version at least though.
currently playing the grandia translation on my saroo. always loved the grandia series
I prefered learning Japanese all by myself, so that I can play all Japanese games of history I want, instead of waiting for never coming translation patchs (or else, I could never have played "Tengai Makyou: The 4th Apocalypse" that I really, really enjoyed it, and I think that there are many other games on obscure systems like PC-98 that will never be translated). But those new translation patchs on Saturn are very good news.
PC-98 is so obscure in the West that even fewer people know/care about it than about learning Japanese, and that's already few enough. I hope translation AI will reach a level one day where on-screen translation for those difficult Asian languages will be acceptable instead of mediocre, like right now, and I say that also from perspective of someone who knows Japanese to some degree... it's generally not worth it to learn it 'just' for gaming, since most of those games were obscure even in Japan in the first place, and frankly, most retro stuff isn't that good anyway, and what is was usually localized (Sturgeon's Law totally applies to gaming). Well, not big franchises like Tengai Makyou or Sakura Wars, which are generally quite professionally made, but the PC-98 stuff - absolutely, a lot of it was just reprehensible. I think there's a PSP project going on for Tengai Makyou: The 4th Apocalypse, which makes sense seeing that PSP was a much more popular console in the West.
@@mariusamber3237 "Most retro stuff isn't good anyway"
Then why are you watching a Sega retro TH-cam channel?
@@degenerategaming8797 For the 10-20% that is good, of course; and bad can also be fun, but more so to watch rather than play yourself. Finding hidden gems is always fun, even if there aren't many of them. I don't know the entire library, despite knowing Japanese well enough to play a good chunk of this stuff on my own, and Sega Lord X usually does a very nice job highlighting the better games. I hope he keeps doing so for a long time to come.
@@mariusamber3237 Learning Japanese for gaming is a very good reason (not more stupid than for work or something): this is my case, I am learning Japanese for 3 years especially for that goal, so that I will be not stucked by language barrier anymore (unless I am interested in some Korean, Chinese, or even Spanish games for example). 🙂
Between PC-88/PC-98/MSX/X68000 games, PC Engine games, Saturn games, portable console games, Playstation games, Nintendo console games, PC games, and even actual games (for example, on Switch, the adventure game "Buddy Mission BOND" by KOEI/Nintendo is not translated), there are MANY games that are not translated.
Until we did not play those games, we cannot know if they are "not that good" (but even if this is the case, it remains very interesting to discover for me). I think the "Sturgeon law" is irrelevant to the situation: even if 90% not localized games are bad, if there are thousands or dozen of thousands of games, it remains dozens, even hundreds of interesting games to discover, more than we can all discover in a single human life.
About the AI, first, I am not sure it will be really fonctional until my death. But anyway, I do not like depending on "machines" for doing something. Besides, even the AI may not give me some "cultural elements" to really appreciate games than playing it in comprehensible Japanese.
@@Rudolphhhhhh Well, Chinese I'd say is one of the best picks regardless of what you want to use it for. With Japanese, looking back at my own 5-year experience, I'm more hesitant to say the same thing (though I like the language itself). Most of the games I tried weren't really very good and I wouldn't play them without a speed-up button... especially nowadays that almost everything of note gets localized and you get pretty much all the big-hitters anyhow. Maybe I'm a bit jaded, but I wish for more really great games like some of the 90s gems... Fallout, System Shock 1 and 2, Jagged Alliance 2 and the like. A bit of a longing for my PC-gaming days, haha.
Well, sure, I will give you that - there are some genres where you have to know Japanese to play absolutely all the best games (like VNs), but those are usually genres which are fairly niche in the West in the first place, and like you said - very unlikely you could play even just all the good stuff anyway. Either way, I'm also really happy about all those fan-translations popping up, because way, way more people will play those games that way. The Western markets are huge, and it's way easier to localize/fan-translate games from English into other European languages, even if it can be a telephone game (I recall reading about the bad first translation of Final Fantasy 7 into Spanish!). Everyone can make that choice on their own though, naturally. So, that's that. :)
It's pretty amazing what one can do in a hex-editor...
I'm really happy to see more and more Saturn game being translated and that's great of you to speak about it...
Now i wish for Dragon master Silk, Princess Crown and both Slayers Royal to get their own patch.
Yoh, i've waited for years, can wait a little more... but not much :p
With Sakura Wars 1 finally being translated, I wonder how long would it take for 2, 3 and 4 to be translated...
SW 2 is 3x longer game, and SW3 is x2 longer than SW1. Propably they will be translate much longer than SW1, unless they significantly enlarge the team.
Vandal Hearts has a special place in my heart. It was the first game a bought with my own money as an adult.
Sega management was completelly bananas leaving behind some of the best games that were selling wild in NA and EU for their PSX counterparts.
Sega single handily destroyed the Saturn. They were praising it when it launch but once the market share went straight to the ps1 they gave up on the system.
@@maroon9273 More when they left so many good games in Japan, where the SS outsold the N64. The Saturn was doomed due to lack of trust by Sega itself, and terrible management, it is just ridiculous how RPGs were carrying a shit ton of sales for PSX while Sega management neglected to localize those same RPGS for the Saturn.
@@joseluki sega was neglectful, imagine sega ported all of their rpgs to na and release phantasy star 5 including 6, 7. Sega forgot about their ips and Japanese Saturn games.
I still own my copy of Grandia (love it) but I can easily tell from your footage that it runs better on the Saturn. I'm really impressed since I didn't know the Saturn could run an expansive RPG so well. I really thought the system's strength was just 2D games.
These are all great, but when is the Princess Crown translation being completed?! I've been waiting for that one for years.
Fans like these are the best. I really appreciate them.
Me too. They keep things awesome.
I'm a Fan of Sakura Wars, but I don't like the idea of Tite Kubo doing the Character Designs for the newest entry. It doesn't fit the Franchise which I've always known for having a more beautiful Art Style from the original Kōsuke Fujishima.
I have been following most of these projects, and it is amazing how many translations have been released within the last few years. One additional that I am really looking forward to is Princess Crown, which is currently being worked on.
Shining Force III was so good. I really need to play the other 2 scenarios.
Yes scenario 2 and 3 are really good, and in all, tell a great story!
I finished Bulk Slash for the third time yesterday, but I still haven't tried out the fan translation/fandub, I really should one day.
Now all I want is a Silhouette Mirage translation for the Saturn version, I heard it's superior to the PS1 port and Working Designs unfortunately took too many creative liberties while localizing it and the game became unbalanced as a result.
Thanks for the roundup. I suspect that this is happening because Saturn emulation finally got good, so people now have a way to play these.
Amazing as always, the saturn community is really doing some amazing things over these years. And felt thats the 5 last years was very prolifelic
What’s happened is that Saturn interest has skyrocketed as Saturn emulation and computers have advanced to the point that anyone with windows 10 can play Saturn games after the two minutes of download it takes to get the roms and install retroarc.
Bruh you forgot to mention the English VAs in Bulk Slash cuz remember it wasn't originally released outside of Japan so the fan translation group has to cast English voice actors just for this game!
I mentioned the navigators were in English.
hello
Is there any news to date about any translation of princess crown into English?
very good video
greetings from Argentina🇦🇷
Does anyone sell fan translated discs for the saturn? I don't really have the time to figure out to how to find, download, patch and burn a game. Sounds to complicated for my meager computer skills.
Look up Mega Box Reproductions.
It's really great that these translations are being made. The quality of these are astonishing. I remember translations of some RPGs back in the late 90's and it seemed like the fan translators back then were just trying to be edgy with as much swearing in the dialog as possible, glad it's being taken much more seriously now. Hopefully we see a lot more Saturn translations since so many games for the console never left Japan.
The single largest translation project for the Sega Saturn, Shining Force III Scenario 2, 3, and Premium Disc, as well as the re-translation of the end of Scenario 1… is completely glossed over briefly at the beginning of the video? Or did you cover it in another video? Asking because I think it warrants mighty praise.
This is for recent translations. I’ve covered the older ones already. I feel the opening laid out the subject pretty clear.
@@SegaLordX I think my gripe is that the Shining Force III project isn’t an “old one.” The team is still putting out new patches and updates every year.
@@graciaman indeed. But the translations have been around for quite some time now. And as I said, I’ve covered it in older videos. I wanted this to be about the more recent releases.
SLX has covered it plenty of times. I am not even the bit offended that it was glossed over.
There's a Symphony of the Night hack that goes well beyond translation. It requires the 4MB RAM cart (and why wouldn't a Saturn fan want this?) and it speeds up performance across the board, including map and menu access.
I didn't know about some of these hacks, though. Now I kind of want to grab them...
that isn't a full translation, it only a does basic translation to get by
We need a translation for those games :
Cyberdoll
Sorvice
Funky fantasy
Baroque
Dragon master silk
And many more
Would be happy with Shin Megami Tensei Devil Summoner translations.
Sakura Wars is hugely popular in Asia, but yeah, I'd argue it wouldn't have sold well in the West. Still a shame these games weren't localized for the most part, especially 1 and 3 which are the best. My big Saturn game is Tengai Makyo IV Apocalypse which I played at one point, hope it gets fan-translated for Saturn or (more likely) PSP. There are a few other good ones out there though, like Cyber Doll or Wachenroder.
Persona and Fire Emblem adopted Dating Sim and Time Managment elements from Sakura Wars. If SEGA would release those games BEFORE Persona 3 in West, im pretty sure those games would sell well, ofcourse not the same level as Persona 4 or 5 (because Persona is highschool jrpg, and Sakura Wars is mostly Visual Novel) but much better than So Long My Love on PS2 or Shin Sakura Wars on PS4.
I think the best part of Sakura Taisen is the combat actually, the visual novel is alrighty, it's cool and the dialogue is... harem anime levels, but the combat? Let's freaking go.
It's a great turn-based RPG that can rival quite a lot of franchises out there, with your personal VN decisions affecting the gameplay too.
I'd agree. But getting to that combat is such a slog for me. Those conversations just go on and on. I mean some are literally 30-40 min sequences.
Still shorter than in Trials of Cold Steel / Persona / Fire Emblem games, when tutorial with talking and Social Sim parts can last 1-2 hours without ANY gameplay. Sakura Wars is shorter in Visual Novel segments than those games mentioned from me, but on other hand also gameplay segments are shorter.@@SegaLordX
This makes me very happy seeing these games translated. Thanks for the upload man!
Sakura Wars is a fun experience oozing with production value, but the battles are like SFIII or Vandal Hearts for children. I liked it more than I thought I would after waiting so many years, I’d love it if they translate the Saturn sequel. Policenauts was pretty much exactly like I had dreamed of after playing Snatcher on Sega CD when it was a new game so many years ago, not as scary or atmospheric as Snatcher, but more of a legit world building effort. Shining Force III, Scenarios2&3/Special disc, is still probably the most amazing project and all 4 discs are probably my favorite game of all time.
thanks, this was awesome to read!
My wife will not allow me to play Sakura war, or any other dating sim for that matter. She says it’s cheating.
lmao! 😂 thanks for the laugh!
I really wish for a translated version of Cyber Doll. I got a physical release but i have to use a action replay cartridge for playing on my european sega saturn.
It's a wonderful cyberpunk Rpg but in japanese, i can't go further....
Oh man so many Sega Saturn games I never knew of and never got to play back then it’s such shame we people outside of Japan never got to experience so many games
Yes, I do have an excuse not to play Bulk Slash, I want Japanese VA 😠
Then play the original.
The reason for the influx of fan translated Saturn, sega cd, and turbografx CD jrpgs is pretty simple: Machine Learning assistance makes it cheap and easy. It’s not a substitute for proper excellent human translations however.
That is absolutely false. The majority of Saturn translations have not used AI for the text.
@@pixelpoppyproductions most use ML as base and then proof and edit them by hand. That doesn’t mean it’s not aided by ML.
Why even try to refute something that’s pretty damn obvious? What suddenly there is a booming interest in retro translations? Ao and Zero no kiseki are famously ML assisted.
I’ve played every recent translated game. They’re no Working Designs ( save a few exceptions).
@@jamesyu5212 Not for the Saturn, which is the topic of this video. Grandia used the English Playstation 1 script, as an example. Others have been painstakingly hand translated and localized, like Bulk Slash.
I can't think of any Saturn translations that were just run through an AI algorithm, except recent talk about doing Baroque that way as a proof of concept, playable beta patch (all text is stored as images, so fully translating to English in the provided space would be extremely difficult anyway).
I'm not refuting anything "obvious" because I have been following this scene closely for years and I know what those people have put into it. You're making it seem like this trival thing - just put the script through google translate! But that is not anything close to what has actually been done.
A lot of these games don't even have a text script you can copy and paste into an AI, it's all saved into image tiles which then have to be manually translated pixel by pixel into English. Or worse, hard coded into a video file.
If you think you can do a better job - the Saturn community would love to have your talents!.
@@pixelpoppyproductions fair enough, the influx seems to be more on the turbografx cd side anyway. I somewhat yield to your premise.
@@jamesyu5212 Yeah, I get your point of view too - and I have spent a lot of time using ML to translate German to "Engrish", which you can only really make sense of if you speak both. It's very obvious when it's been tool-assisted. I can see being put off by a lazy approach, but I don't think you could say any of these Saturn translations teams are lazy. :)
I've always wanted to play the Slayers role-playing games on the Saturn or Playstation. It's one of my favorite animes, but they've never been translated.
Man this is incredible on so many levels! First of all it's all the motivation I need to boot the old girl up again and secondly the Increased exposure of these fan translations will sure encourage the other groups who either started or have paused their projects to get them underaway! Sega Saturn for absolute life!
Surprized I've never seen them referred to as "Fanslations".
Thank you for making this video, found some translations I never knew existed. Can you do a video for other platforms as well?
I honestly wish they wouldn’t waste time on titles like “Lunar” or “Grandia” because we already have English translations of those. I’d much rather the effort be put to those titles that have never been brought over.
Why not?They run better on the Saturn and the translation is already done (they just ported the ps1 text).
The Fantranslation are not done by the same groups anyway.
There are thousands that were never brought or translated to the west on PS1. In Fact, there are more Japanese exclusives on PS1 than twice the USA library. Probably even more than that I never counted but I just went through the full library for MiSTer FPGA. Its crazy. I wish I knew how to do translation hacks I would do as many as I could for PSX and Saturn.
SLX, I have a video idea for you: Sega PSP games. PSP had Sega Rally, Outrun, After Burner, Tennis 2K and Phantasy Star games.
I’ve spent all my gaming time in the last 6 months or so playing Japanese only games that got translated on my fenrir. Policenauts, linkle liver story, and Sakura wars have been some of my favorites so far. I am currently playing Lunar on my Saturn, and have Grandia and shining force 3 queued up:) I had never heard of volhallian, so thanks so much for the heads up, it’s on my list for sure now!
Princess Crown translation sounds like it's almost complete. The translation team posts on the Rom Hacking forums and they've signaled they're reaching the finish line
That Disney games compilation looks nice. Would be especially nice to see Phantasy Star Collection for Saturn done the same way.
He has looked into it. More complicated than Mickey/Donald. Especially PS4 since the entire game can't fit into RAM
@@knight0fdragon Damn. Thanks for responding. Appreciate it and all your work for Sega Saturn translations.
Vandal Hearts is like a more grown up version of Shining Force, with a TON of blood! Anyone tell me is there an advantage/reason for me to have this on Saturn over the PS1?
I really hope the other Sakura Wars games get full English translations someday.
Who just had his backlog increased but couldn't be happier for it? 👍This guy.👍
Miner niners beat the cowboys again today dude I thought about your madden episode
Too close a game, but niners came out on top.
It won’t pretty, but any cowboy defeat is a good one.
I imported a ton of Japanese Saturn games back in the day...over half the library I own is imports. The best part is I only paid retail price for them...I knew a couple of really good import shops that only charged like $5 more than they cost in Japan. My Saturn even has the MPEG card.
Man I want one of those cards so bad ...
Just to play ETERNAL BLUE ....
@@SegaDream131 Eternal Blue doesn't use the card. Only Silver Star Story Complete uses it.
Thats awesome! Bulk slash in english and sakura wars. I wish someone would translate Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 1
Dudes who translated Sakura Wars 1 on Saturn (CJ_Iwakura team), now translate Devil Summoner PSP version.
Sakura wars I saw the 2 in a review but i dint hqve enough money to buy it, so the first was uee for $30 in a book i bought it and play it without a walkthrough, great game
I want the Princess Crown translation to finish. I must have it 😭😭😭
Oh man I'm really gonna have to start getting into Saturn Emulation now. This is all so cool! I can't wait until Princess Crown gets its translation. I've been following that project for like, 7 years now but I'll wait as long as I need for it!
These are awesome. But still no Devil Summoner 😮💨
Atlus translated that game, but Sony banned Devil Summoner PSX version in 1996. That game was supoused to be released before Revelations Persona in West.
The Saturn port of Cotton Boomerang still hasn't got the English translation, but the ST-V cartridge is region-free.
The passion of gamers to translate, japanese only games is something i really appreciate.
I still hope that someone, translates Secret of Mana 2 and 3 one day.
what? Those have been done forever now and is also officially translated by Square. (Not really sure what you mean by 2 and 3, but 1 is Final Fantasy Adventure on Gameboy, 2 is Secret of Mana, and 3 is now titled Trials of Mana)
The fan group that translated "Linkle liver story" should of corrected that terrible engRish title to what it likely was intended to be: *Wrinkle RIVER Story*
sorry, I need to do this simply because you went after a translation lol. Should have*.
This is so cool. The Sega community is a great community.
As always, this is a great and informative video. Some of these translations are nothing short of equal to, or better than many early official localizations. The full on English dub of Bulk Slash, along with accurate subtitles, is insanely good. What really surprised me was Grandia. Having purchased it as an import game, it was never playable for me due to the lack of English subtitles. The PlayStation version wasn’t the same at all visually. It had lifeless water effects, a lack of building shadows, and mirrored sprites with less animation.
Thanks to the new English Saturn fan translation version of Grandia, the bad port of the PS1 version on Steam isn’t needed. The emulated Saturn version of Grandia, running on Kronos, or YabaSanshiro, looks much better than the official HD port, which was actually supposed to use the Saturn graphics as a base, with the PS1 version’s English dub and subtitles.
Pandamonium and you got me hyped over a lot of these translations, especially the ones I’ve already played on PSX. Super stoked you finally gave FirePro the time of day since you and I had a back and forth about it since your wrasslin video. Didn’t really serve it any justice but I’m glad you you mentioned it. Hope you actually give it the time of day for yourself. That and eventually the AJPWs on Saturn and especially Giant Gram on Dreamcast. Then the NJPWs on PS. You’ve really missed out on what wrasslin games were meant to be bitd.
Are these free to download? How do these fans avoid copyright issues?
The patches are not distributed with the original game. You must patch it yourself.
Hi Sega lord ❤ i love love the sega saturn 😊
The visuals of Vandal Hearts don't just NOT hold up, they were hideous when the game was new. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Vandal Hearts fan. Particularly Vandal Hearts II. It's top 3 for me. But the first game is undeniably grimy and hideous. Even in 1996, I had trouble stomaching the ugliness.
To all involved in creating these translation projects - much love, you da real MVPs, guys! It brings a tear to my eye seeing how the Saturn is revived in such a beautiful way after 20+ years.
The Saturn has recently become one of my favorite consoles of all time. I was a Genesis kid who never had a Saturn (N64 instead) and then went to Dreamcast. I always felt screwed as a USA Dreamcast owner who saw so many games left in Japan. However Saturn owners had it so much worse. So many amazing games left in JP. Bulk slash now translated is one of my favorite games of all time. It's a short game with a ton of replayability and grinding for nice rewards. I recently started Sakura wars and it's a bit up my alley more than you, But I understand that's not for everybody. Sega of America really should have jumped on the JRPG craze of the mid to late 90s and brought games over. They wouldn't have beat PlayStation, but would have 100% done better than they did on the west. N64 left a big hole for RPG/2d game fans.
Eager for a Wachenroder translation, I love Range Murata's art style.
WOW thanks for showing Bulk Slash : I never heard of it and it looks awesome. You did an awesome work on this video, thanks alot ❤️.
oh man, Sakura Wars...
I had a neighbor back in 1997 crazy for this game. Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese so I had no idea what the story is talking about. lol
I'm waiting for translations of the Gundam Blue Destiny Trilogy. You can figure out how to play them easily enough, but you're missing the story entirely.