Read Peter's thoughts on Sakura Wars in his latest #BestOfSaturn piece:
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The title screen to Sega Saturn game Sakura Wars as localized by its English fan translation patch
A screenshot from the first mission of Sega Saturn game Sakura Wars as localized by its English fan translation patch
Sakura Wars (aka Sakura Taisen) was a fall 1996 release in Japan, and is best described as a visual novel, dating sim, and strategy game mashed up into one. And in 2019, a troupe led by NoahSteam released a full English patch! Hooray!
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Read Peter's thoughts on EMIT Vol. 1 in today's #BestOfSaturn:
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EMIT Vol. 1: Lost Child of Time is the first of a trilogy of games from Koei, all debuting in the span of roughly a month. Designed to teach English to Japanese gamers, the game presents a series of lightly animated chapters centered on young student Yuri.
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Stellar Assault SS is a space combat game that's much more story-driven than its 32X predecessor. It was given the English “translation+” treatment in May 2023 by @lacquerware.bsky.social & team.
Read Peter's thoughts in today's #BestOfSaturn:
www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/03/18/s...
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Silhouette Mirage, the second Treasure game to hit the #Saturn, received two fan translations in recent years. Shyna embarks on a platforming adventure through time to repair & restore Edo and reunite the Silhouettes & Mirages:
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Paul Met & Meduza Team released a patch in March 2025 — all in-game text is now in English, and the FMV sequences are subtitled, too! Learn the cards, how they interact and boost each other, and wipe the floor with anyone who stands in the way of your righteous mission!
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…is via card battles. Cards can be found, bought in stores, or even captured from opponents. Special Arcana cards add extra magic or abilities to your deck. The visuals are colorful and the music is apropos, with the world inhabited by various monsters and enemies.
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…where people’s dreams give power to the cards. Ester is engaged by a guardian Titan to save the world from destruction… but what do you do when the problem is that people have stopped dreaming?
The RPG aspects include overworld and dungeon sequences, while combat…
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Released at the end of 1997, Takara and Red Company’s Arcana Strikes is a fusion of an overhead RPG and a card-battling game. You take the role of young Ester, who once received a mysterious card from an old woman and now finds himself transported to a mystical realm…
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On Christmas 2025, Exxistance released an English patch for Delisoba Deluxe, converting virtually all the Japanese text for our gaming enjoyment of this awesome little title.
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The delivery route takes you through city streets and countrysides with traffic, cows & other obstacles. A good analog to Delisoba Deluxe is Road Rash — the game shares its visual style with EA’s classic and is surprisingly playable, despite being merely a novelty item.
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The show’s game was then adapted for the Saturn by Cave and retitled “Delisoba Deluxe.” A motorcyclist ferries a delivery boy balancing his boxes in one hand, though the gamer really only controls the bike. There are also nifty Time Attack, Coin Link & Track Editor modes.
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Delisoba Deluxe was a giveaway to studio audiences of a Japanese game show where contestants engaged in various video mini games, including “Delisoba,” where one player played the video game on a bike and a second contestant balanced boxes of soba noodles in one hand.
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He also implemented bug fixes and introduced quality-of-life improvements to increase the game’s fun factor, then released the patch in two varieties — one with all the enhancements and one without. Fans of Wizardry and early ‘90s corridor RPGs are well-catered to here.
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The game is text-heavy, with written descriptions often complementing the corridor-like visuals in lieu of sounds or animations, giving the game an awesome Wolfenstein meets King’s Quest vibe.
Remisse inserted a bunch of content that was cut from the Saturn port.
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The seventh game remains in Japanese, but the sixth was English-patched by Remisse in 2025 using the original English from the DOS release. It's a first-person dungeon crawler with heavy emphasis on party preparation, story exposition, and stat and item management.
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The Wizardry series began in the early '80s on Apple computers, a formative attempt at bringing a Dungeons & Dragons-like experience to video games. The sixth and seventh installments got a #Saturn port in Japan, releasing in mid-1996 under the title Wizardry VI & VII Complete.
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The game is an exaggerated, colorful cartoon, and the songs are complete chaos for your mind… but surrender to the music and you’ll feel Jung again as you bust out your moves!
This lovely title was translated to English in April 2024 by ateam, Shadowmask, Malekno and wiredcrackpot.
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Observe, then copy button presses in rhythm to each song, which is much easier said than done. Occasionally, freestyling is allowed for bonus points. Each scene ends with Essence being rated on her groove, rhythm, style, ad-lib, and impact. Do well and you live to dance another day.
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Take the role of Vanilla Essence — a young girl enamored with Chorking, the geologist “rock star” (ha ha). Essence sees superstardom in her future — but to get there and fulfill her dream of a duet with Chorking, she must navigate six song-and-dance-filled stages.
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The fine folks at Japanese software house Altron Corp. were clearly into the good stuff, and in early 1998, they conjured up the absolutely bananas Jung Rhythm! it's conceptually reminiscent of that lesser 32-bit console’s PaRappa game.
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At the very end of 2021, Shadowmask and A Murder of Crows released an English translation — more properly, a de-translation, as they used audio assets from the PC game — allowing players to dive into the mean streets of Neo City and uncover the truth behind Angel Devoid.
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Plot-heavy, the game allows for some freedom and variety by allowing the player to choose the type of attitude with which to engage others — aggressive, neutral, or pleasant — affecting the outcome. The video is quite clean and loading time is minimal.
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Set in a dystopic cyberpunk future, you are detective Jake Hard in pursuit of criminal Angel Devoid — but a car accident forces Jake to undergo facial reconstruction and he's inadvertently fitted with Angel’s face! It's a thrilling sci-fi point-and-click adventure.
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Remember that 1997 movie Face Off, where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage literally swap faces? It was done the year prior in DeathMask — an FMV adventure game converted to Japanese Saturns from the English PC original (though with a different title).
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Not all hope is lost. In 2024, the honorary mayor of Rainbow Town, Malenko, threw us English speakers a lifeline by fully translating this excellent puzzle game. Play well and you’ll build up a nice, happy Rainbow Town. Fail and you’ll go to Rainbow Skid Row!
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This Japan-exclusive Saturn game was produced and released by Human Entertainment in early 1996 and features more than 700 unique and progressively more challenging puzzles. Easy to learn but difficult to master, puzzles start out simple but soon escalate.
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Picture an unholy marriage of crosswords, sudoku, and pattern deduction… you soon realize that weapons are useless in ol’ Rainbow Town — you must instead use your brains (and, optionally, the Saturn mouse) to make it out alive.
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Grab your favorite weapon — it’s time to start something on the mean streets of Logic Puzzle Rainbow Town!
Logic puzzles are grid-based brainteasers where you form an image by correctly solving sequences in intersecting rows and columns.
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