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The Saturn community has become accustomed to fans creating translations for Japan-exclusive games and inserting them via patches. But it’s not every day that an official translation is found hiding…
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Saturn hacker Bo Bayles, behind such projects as the NiGHTS into Dreams Retro-Bit Controller fix, and finding the playable Dolphin in Burning Rangers, released a patch last week that unlocks…
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It’s time to fight — Bomberman style, now that a partial English localization patch for Saturn Bomberman Fight!! is available to the public. Translation team leader Malenko posted the SSP…
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For 28 years, North American owners of Saturn sidescrolling platformer Clockwork Knight 2 have had an entire extra game on their discs and never knew it. That changed on Christmas…
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Saturn fans rung in the new year with an updated patch for Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight — or as it’s better known in the West, Castlevania: Symphony of…
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The team of fans working on a translation patch for Sakura Wars 2 gave an update on their progress over the weekend. The project’s editor, Bowloflentils, posted to social media…
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A fan translation is in the works for the sequel to a notorious Saturn lightgun shooter, Death Crimson, its project lead announced Wednesday. Derek “ateam” Pascarella, who’s led many Dreamcast…
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It’s been a busy week in the world of Sega Saturn fandom. Here are some of the stories you may have missed. Gundam translation shows off progress The team leader…
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Sometimes, when a game’s got catchy music, you just need to hear more of it. That’s the case for one fan of Taito puzzle game Cleopatra Fortune who modded the…
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An update to the English fan translation patch for “R?MJ The Mystery Hospital” last week added subtitles to nearly all of the horror adventure game’s videos. The hacker working on…
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System Sacom fans rejoice — an English patch that translates the Saturn version of 1997 FMV horror adventure game “R?MJ The Mystery Hospital” into English is on the way courtesy…
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Based on the Cthulhu mythos created by HP Lovecraft, the 1995 PC and Mac point-and-click Prisoner of Ice got a Japan-only Saturn release at the very end of 1997. Presented…
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A classic Sega Saturn action game by legendary developer Treasure now can be played to completion in English thanks to fan translators who uploaded a finished patch for Silhouette Mirage…
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There have been a variety of new releases from Sega Saturn fan localization projects over the last couple weeks. Let’s take a look at what the community has been up…
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An English translation for Saturn dungeon crawler Dungeon Master Nexus was released by a fan Wednesday. The effort came as a surprise to the Saturn community. It was made by…
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The English fan localization of Saturn adventure game J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues is finished, its project lead, Arjak, announced Sunday night. The patch can be downloaded from SegaXtreme. It…
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While a fan translation for the Sega Saturn hasn’t been finished since July — when we got Baroque in English, and Deep Fear and Resident Evil in Spanish — a…
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On July 9th, 2023, Gregori Rasputin announced in a thread that him, Soniccd123, and Malenko started work on inserting the PS1 translation by Working Designs into the Saturn version of…
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From updates on new peripheral hardware and a fan translation to games we’ve reported on before coming to new platforms, we’ve got a solid slate of news items in the…
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You must play Sega Saturn — or as you might say in Spanish, ¡debe jugar a Sega Saturn! Especially now, with a couple of high-profile Spanish fan translations of Saturn…
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A fan-made English patch for the Saturn version of first-person roguelike RPG Baroque is now available, coming less than two months after developer Plissken announced he was working on it….
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Things sure do move FAST in the Saturn scene… It was just a couple days ago (May 2, 2023) that Team SHIRO!s Knight0fDragon began work on an English Translation Patch…
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SEGA AGES I love Mickey Mouse / I love Donald Duck is a Japan-only SEGA AGES compendium of two Genesis / MegaDrive Disney games, Castle of Illusion and QuackShot. Reproduced…
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Here’s a look at some of the recent stories of interest to Saturn fans: Gungriffon Type 12 model kit announced Game Arts, the developers of Saturn mech shooter Gungriffon, announced…
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Let’s take a look around the world of Saturn fandom to check out the smaller stories that have happened in the past week. Playable build of Zygo homebrew game posted…
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On Saturday, February 11th, 2023, Dr. Emerald Nova announced the final standings for the SEGA Saturn 28th Anniversary Game Competition hosted by SegaXtreme. For a nice overview of all contest…
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It’s been a bit of a slow news week for the Saturn, but there have been a few notable developments nonetheless. Here’s a roundup of what’s new with Sega’s fifth-generation…
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On Friday, January 6th, 2023, we had a surprise announcement LIVE on SHIRO! SHOW that the English translation for Sakura Wars 2 ~Thou Shalt Not Die~ on Saturn was well…
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As many in the Saturn community are likely aware by now, the folks responsible for last year’s Bulk Slash localization have been at work on a new Saturn localization project,…
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The remake of classic RPG Ys: The Vanished Omens in the Japanese-only Saturn compilation Falcom Classics is now playable from beginning to end in English thanks to a fan translation…
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On Monday, November 21, 2022, a new patch (Version 24) was released by the Shining Force III English Translation Project. This replaces the last patch, v23, released over a year…
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Original Source: Lets localize Terra Phantastica! – (at SegaXtreme.net) Lets start with the obvious. The likelihood of me actually finishing this [ Terra Phantastica ] is pretty much non-existent. I…
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On Monday, July 18, Greg (aka Lacquerware) announced that the Bulk Slash Team who brought us the amazing English localization and dub for Bulk Slash, had chosen their new project…
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A fan translation patch nearly four years in the making is finished at last. Version 1.0 of Grandia’s English patch went live on the SegaXtreme forums Wednesday, with its developer…
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A workaround has been found for users unable to get past the difficulty screen added to the English localization of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen. Patch developer…