Saturn Fighter Ninku Gets a Fan Translation!

Exxistance does it again and releases a fan translation based on the anime and manga series Ninku. The fighting game follows the frog-looking character Fūsuke, who is immensely powerful and is from the Ninku school, fighting off the evil corporations named after the Chinese Zodiac animals.

This was a shadow drop by Exxistance, and was released April 6, 2026, on several Discords and social media platforms:

Need a break from Segagaga? Feeling burnt out from grinding the Archives?

Take a break over at Planet Saturn with a few rounds of the Saturn-exclusive fighter, Ninku!

Check out this small English patch, now available!https://t.co/Ekejo7Frsr pic.twitter.com/qRBQ9Itg0j

— Exxistance (@ExxistanceDC) April 6, 2026

While for the most part English isn’t needed too much to enjoy the game, he made some good quality of life changes to the title, such as:

• Translated title screen, localized title
• Translated main menu
• Translated character names on character select screen
• In-game UI elements translated
• English subtitles for opening movie, game over, and character win quote FMVs

According to his notes on the GitHub page.

The game is a fairly straightforward fighting game, very similar to the Yu Yu Hakusho fighting game on the 3DO, using a drawn cel style to capture each frame:

Well, at least Ninku looks way better…

No other translator besides Exxistance is listed in the credits, so we wanted to give everyone a heads up some AI was potentially used in the translation of this project.

While this game isn’t the biggest in demand for a fan translation, it’s a quirky little fighting game based on an anime series, and everyone should give it a try!

If you’d like to patch your copy, you can download the fan translation files here:
https://github.com/ExxistanceDC/Ninku-English-Translation

Everyone at SHIRO! wanted to give a thank you to the team who made it all possible:

Translation

• Exxistance

Texture Art

• Exxistance

QA

• Exxistance
• wonder-inc
• Patrick “TraynoCo” Traynor

Special Thanks

• Shadowmask (for writing the excellent tutorial, Create Your Own Saturn Video Discs, as well as providing additional advice)
• Malenko (whose Saturn 15bpp tool tutorial was invaluable for some of this translation’s graphics)
• Derek “ateam” Pascarella (who developed the Saturn 15bpp tool mentioned above!)