

POLICENAUTS ENGLISH ROM PATCH
As of yesterday you can now get an English translation patch for the Saturn version and get to play the most definitive version of this great title.įred’s Take: This news is huge to me. On the other hand, the Saturn version is a bit more of a remake than a port with better graphics and even light gun support. There was a fan translation of the version on the original Playstation in 2009, but it has some compatibility issues that can arise and the shooting sequences don’t support light guns, making them brutal. This is significant because the Hideo Kojima title was never released outside of Japan and never officially translated to English. You can read a review on it, listen to a game club, and even hear a choice song from the soundtrack in one of our music episodes. We love Policenauts here at Gaming History 101. There you will also find the original Playstation translation as well, but read on to discover why you may want to go with the Saturn. We did try to fix these, but there has to be a point in which you call it a day when it comes to trying to fix things that are A) in the original game, B) not-game-breaking, C) extremely hard to encounter without assistance, and D) likely to push back the project's release date by weeks or even months if you decide to fix them.A fan translation of the Sega Saturn version of Policenauts has been released. The player can simply close the emulator/turn off the system to quit the game. At the end of Act 2, if you get a Game Over due to a very particular sequence of events, clicking on Quit at the Game Over screen will not quit the game. The system text then disappears, and the player can continue without consequence.Ģ. This results in system text remaining at the bottom of the screen until an object is clicked on and in-game text replaces it. The in-game options screen text becoming centered if the player chooses to save in-game, selects a save file, but then instead of saving OR selecting 'Don't Save', returns to the previous menu by pressing the B button. Certain hard-to-encounter bugs present in the original game were not changed.

In the interest of preserving the story, in the end we decided to remove these bios. We attempted to implement a system whereby a character's bio is added only after they have been encountered in-game, but this proved unfeasible. In the original game, all of these spoiler-heavy bios are available from the very start. Character bios (summaries of information learned in-game) were removed from the glossary.
POLICENAUTS ENGLISH ROM CODE
There is no code to enter it is available from the get-go. Uncensored?! Yes, for whatever reason, there was a text choice locked (with no method to unlock) in the original game that we have made available. Some of the game options related to the text (including whether to display furigana) were removed where no longer appropriate for the English translation. Though these were very few, they were fixed as well. icons signifying the wrong items, nametags given to the wrong character) that were fixed. There were even out and out mistakes (i.e. The Saturn version of Policenauts did ship with a few of these - these glitches are no longer present. Finally, the character nametags more closely match the in-game font. Overlays were also used in some of the bonus videos. In addition, a graphic in the Prologue was changed, and an overlay was used to correct a typo in the ending cutscene. Graphical changes present in the PlayStation patch were implemented in this version as well. This also enabled us to subtitle background dialogue not subtitled in the PlayStation patch.

This modification was essential as a cutscene and the bonus videos new to the Saturn version have no subtitles in the original game.
POLICENAUTS ENGLISH ROM FULL
The code that controls subtitles was modified, giving us full control over them and enabling us to polish their presentation. The translator of the PlayStation patch edited their work, and then updated the PlayStation translation and glossary text. Additional text new to the Saturn version was translated by two additional translators. The PlayStation translation and glossary on were used as a base. This includes gameplay text, voice-over dialogue subtitles, the in-game glossary (new to the Saturn version), and bonus videos (also new). The following is a list of changes made to the original game. This is version 1.00 of the Sega Saturn Policenauts English unofficial translation.
