The translation patches keep pouring in for the SEGA Saturn, with three new public releases this week. Two of the games on this list already have English releases in the arcades, and use AI tools to insert the scripts into the Japan-exclusive Saturn ports. Here’s a quick look at each one:
Puzzle & Action: Treasure Hunt (2do Aru Koto wa Sando R)
v1.0 by Ardiloso (11-1-26)
AI-assisted with Claude code Opus 5.5
First up is CRI‘s 1996 port of the ST-V arcade game Puzzle & Action: Treasure Hunt, which was released exclusively in Japan as 2do Aru Koto wa Sando R for the Saturn. This is the third game in the series, which has more than 20 mini party games you can play with a friend. Ardiloso, who released a now-updated patch for The King of Fighters ’97 last week, said, “Every text and graphic were ported over, since the ST-V arcade board and the Saturn share the same hardware, the graphics and compression formats are identical between the two versions.” The Saturn-exclusive content, like shops and menus, was “machine translated plus some common sense to adapt it,” Ardiloso said. The hack also increases max credits from 9 to 99. Bugs and issues can be reported on SegaXtreme.
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
v0.1-beta by Princeendo (11-1-26)
AI-assisted with Claude
Another beta patch from Princeendo, who just released a beta patch for Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter last week. Now X-Men vs. Street Fighter, the third entry in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, has gotten the same treatment. This patch uses the English text from the U.S. arcade release wherever it exists, and a new translation where there is none. A detailed list of what changes were made can be found on the GithHb post. Princeendo said, “The game needs the 4 MB RAM cartridge. Without it, the game stops at boot on a warning page, which the patch shows in English.”
NOON
v1.0 by Ryanm8 (11-4-26)
AI-assisted
Last on our list is Microcabin‘s 1998 action puzzle game, NOON, which features a single player story mode, and versus action with up to four players via the multiplayer adapter. It was originally ported to the Saturn and PlayStation from the PC exclusively in Japan. Ryanm8 said, “The English translation is 100% complete. The game was played through fully without issue, tested on real Sega Saturn hardware as well as in emulators.” All on-screen text is now in English, including an untranslated option in the debug menu, but the voice audio remains in Japanese. “The translation was AI-assisted,” Ryanm8 said. “Every line was then read by hand by me for quality and consistency and modified as needed. For mistranslations, bugs or suggestions, please open an issue on this repository.”
Also, worth mentioning that Dark Seed II got an beta English patch from Kitchen34 last month. We are unsure if it’s a fully human translation yet, but if it is, we will give it a dedicated article. Check out Privateye‘s SEGA Saturn Translation Projects page to see all the current available translation patches, which now separates the fully AI translated games from the AI projects that use human translators.
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