I remember playing this game for the first time one afternoon way back in the day, at a Sears electronics department gaming kiosk.

I know what I'm playing tonight.

Corpse Killer: Graveyard Edition (1995)

Double Switch (1995)

Virtual Hydlide (1995)

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster (1995)

Alien Trilogy (1996)

Alone in the Dark: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge (1996)

Area 51 (1996)

Arthur to Astaroth no Nazomakaimura: Incredible Toons (1996)

Blazing Dragons (1996)

Battle Monsters (1996)

Brain Dead 13 (1996)

Casper (1996)

D (1996)

Mr. Bones (1996)

Powerslave (1996)

Skeleton Warriors (1996)

Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels (1996)

Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1996)

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon (1996)

Haunted Casino (1996)

Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (1997)

Doom (1997)

HeXen (1997)

Quake (1997)

The Horde (1997)

Enemy Zero (1997)

Crypt Killer (1997)

Monster Slider (1997)

Lunacy (1997)

Rampage World Tour (1997)

Norse by Norsewest: The Return of The Lost Vikings (1997)

Phantasmagoria (1997) - 8 CD's!

The Unsolved (1997)

Psychic Assassin Taromaru (1997)

Resident Evil (1997)

Swagman (1997)

Cotton 2 (1997)

Cotton Boomerang (1998)

Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku (A.K.A Castlevania: Symphony of the Night) (1998)

Baroque (1998)

Capcom Generations 2: Chronicles of Arthur (1998)

Deep Fear (1998)

The House of the Dead (1998)

Wizardry Nemesis (1998)

Wizardry Llylgamyn Saga (1998)

Dungeons & Dragons Collection -Shadow Over Mystara (1999)

Homebrew and Emulation

Police Officer Smith

Hellslave (2022)

Master System Games for Halloween (Can emulate on Saturn)

I'm working solo on porting Medal of Honor to the Sega Saturn, leveraging AI as a coding assistant to speed up the C development process.

​Right now, the project is in its early stages (~10%). While the Saturn and PS1 handle 3D very differently, I'm working hard to optimize the engine and bring the experience as close to the PS1 version as the Saturn hardware allows.

​Once the first level is playable, I'll share a test ISO with the community so you can try it on real hardware and share your feedback. Thanks for following along!

If anyone in here remembers the classic hidden on Duke Nukem and Power Slave and wants to give my recreation of it a try on the N64, I’d be much appreciated for the assistance testing it! 😀

download here: https://celsowm.itch.io/dino-demo-saturn-version

Hey everyone,

I am thrilled to share that Blue Seed: Kushinada Hirokuden for the Sega Saturn is now fully playable in English!

For those unfamiliar, Blue Seed is a unique 1995 RPG/Card-battle hybrid based on the classic anime. Because of its heavy reliance on Japanese text for both the story and the card mechanics, it has been notoriously difficult for non-Japanese speakers to enjoy—until now.

This project involved extensive reverse-engineering to extract, translate, and re-insert the game's massive script, menus, and card attributes.

Where to get it:
You can find the patch, source files, and instructions directly on the GitHub repository:
https://github.com/retrogamingreloaded/blue-seed-kushinada-hiroku-den-translation

How to play:
Detailed patching instructions are available in the README. The patched image works beautifully on original hardware (via ODEs like Fenrir/Satiator) or modern Saturn emulators.

A huge thank you to the Saturn modding community for the documentation and tools that made this possible. Please check it out, report any bugs you find on GitHub, and enjoy this forgotten Saturn gem!

I'd really love to see Virtua Fighter 3 on the Saturn!

Hi, so I've been playing through Panzer Dragoon Saga, got to disc 3 and using my Kai to save games to, then I took the cart out to look at it, and noticed there was a 3 way switch on top, so I moved the switch a few times and just put the cart back in. Then when I loaded up my Saturn next time, I was greeted with the Kai menu screen (hadn't seen it before), then when I loaded Panzer Dragoon Saga Disc 3 up, my saves were completely gone, it's just showing Internal Memory, no icon for External Memory.

If I go into the memory manager on the Saturn I can only see the Kai software on it. Did I somehow delete my saves?!

Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers is a Japan-only Sega Saturn game released by Bandai in 1998. In almost 30 years it has never received an English translation. Now it has one: a full English patch.

Let me be upfront from the first line: this translation was made with AI, only for personal use, and I'm sharing it for free in case other fans enjoy it. Please never upload it to romhacking sites – it isn't worthy of them.

Download: HERE 0.9.1

About the game

The Saturn becomes a fake 1998 PC running "DIGI OS". A Digital Monster Lab mails you a Digimon by mistake, and you raise it in folders on your desktop: feeding, cleaning, curing, training, shopping, reading mail and news on the Digimon NET, battling in the Virtual Colosseum and collecting evolution cards.

What's translated

• All program text: menus, dialogs, item and food descriptions, status, battle, training, shop, system settings (~2,600 strings)
• All 141 mails, news articles and Net pages
• The opening story (with its own English font)
• The DIGI OS boot sequence and the first mail
• Graphics: desktop tooltips, shop, battle menus and stage names, stat radar, card stages, Digimon NET, DigiLab, the "Botamon Sound Asleep" homepage, System screens, all 14 Help manual pages, ending stats, opening images
• A rebuilt English name-entry keyboard (up to 16 letters)
• Official English Digimon/item names wherever they exist

A new half-width text engine was written so that two English letters fit in each of the game's 16x16 character cells.

How to patch – please read this part, it's where the game fails to boot

⚠️ The dump is 66 separate files (1 data track + 65 audio tracks) with a .cue that lists all of them. Many Saturn emulators can't load that kind of multi-file .cue (Yabause 0.9.15, for example, only accepts a .cue pointing to one single .bin), and a plain .iso boots but has no music. So the download includes everything you need to build a single-file BIN/CUE, the format every Saturn emulator can load:

1. You need your dump BIN/CUE of the Japanese disc. Only Track 01 is patched: Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (Japan) (Track 01).bin – CRC32 682478B5
2. Apply the BPS file to Track 01 with Floating IPS, beat or ROM Patcher JS, and save the result in the same folder as the Japanese tracks, with this exact name: Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (English v0.9) (Track 01).bin
3. Copy Make English BIN.bat and Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (English v0.9).cue from the download into that same folder.
4. Windows: double-click Make English BIN.bat. In a few seconds it joins the English data track and your original audio tracks into one file, Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (English v0.9).bin (about 138 MB).
5. Linux/macOS: run this in that folder instead: cat "Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (English v0.9) (Track 01).bin" "Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (Japan) (Track "{02..66}").bin" > "Digital Monster Ver. S - Digimon Tamers (English v0.9).bin"
6. Load the .cue, not the .bin, in your emulator.

You must provide your own copy of the original Japanese game to apply it.

Checksums: patched Track 01 CRC32 32A6AF99 · single English BIN CRC32 7D30F867

Still not booting? Check that you are loading the new single-BIN .cue and that your emulator has a Japanese Saturn BIOS set up (the game is Japan-only).

"Isn't this just another MTL?"

I know many people don't like machine translations, and I understand why: too many of them are raw Google Translate output dumped into a ROM. This is not that, and it isn't comparable to Google Translate or similar tools. Not all AIs translate the same way, and the method matters even more than the tool:

• Every message was translated as a whole, from the Japanese, with its context (who is talking, what is happening in the game), not line by line.
• The Japanese itself was read from the game's own font, checked character by character, not guessed.
• Names and terms follow the official English sources (listed below), with one glossary applied to the whole script.
• The English was fitted to the game's windows, the graphics were relettered, and every screen was tested in-game.

It's the best that could be done with the sources available. The AI vs AI comparison below shows how big the difference between two AIs can be.

AI vs AI: why not all AI translations are equal

Before this release, ChatGPT had made a first pass on the game. When Claude checked it against the disc:

• 88 lines had the wrong Japanese (30 misread characters), because many kanji had been guessed from context instead of read from the font. The English sounded fine but said something else: "impossible" instead of "wonderful", a girl turned into a boy, a move abroad turned into a wedding, and the very first mail told you to click the icon on the left instead of the right.
• The symbols in Net addresses and phone numbers (the clues you type into the Search app) were left unresolved, and ★ was read as ・ in 43 places.
• Only 403 text fragments had been found in the program files: the real number is 2,612 strings. No intro, no graphics, no patch.

Claude fixed all of that, retranslated the whole script and caught its own mistakes by testing in an emulator. The full comparison report, with every example, is at the bottom of this post.

Want to make it better? Here's how

No translation is perfect, and a human touch can only make this one better. But please, before downvoting or calling it "slop" just because it's the trendy thing to say about anything AI, play the game and tell me where the actual problems are: which screen, which line, what it says and what it should say. Concrete reports are welcome and will go into the next version. Improving it with human input is far more useful than tearing it down a priori because an AI made it.

And if you don't like it, that's fine too: you don't have to use it. Nobody is forcing you, and you didn't pay for it.

How it was made

Double AI check: ChatGPT made a first pass on the mail files (draft + terminology + audit). Claude then re-checked that work against the disc, decoded the font pixel by pixel, corrected the misread Japanese, retranslated the whole script from the Japanese (including the program strings the first pass had missed), wrote the text engine, relettered the graphics and tested everything in an emulator. ChatGPT's review notes were then checked again by Claude before being applied.

Sources consulted

• GameFAQs guide by Arvenyte (also used to cross-check item names and every Net Search address, see below)
• Wikimon
• Digimon Encyclopedia / Digimon Reference Book
• With the Will

Cross-check against Arvenyte's GameFAQs guide

Before release, the translation was checked against every section of Arvenyte's GameFAQs translation guide: interface, shop, other items, decoration items, evolution items, Net Search addresses, Colosseum medals, hackers and the "three choices". The check found one real error (a Net address) and four item names that could be better. Everything else matched.

The error: Net address "HOT,8"

• In Yassan's forum post, Block B-6 was given as "HOT.8". The guide has "HOT,8", and the guide is right.
• Typed into the game's Search app, "HOT.8" returns ERROR, while "HOT,8" is accepted.
• The cause: Claude had read character 0383 of the game's font as a period. Looked at closely, it has a small tail, so it's a comma. The same character appears in "I'm fine, and you?" in another line of the game, which confirms it.
• The fix: the mail was corrected. Then all 31 addresses quoted in the game's mails were typed into the Search app, and every one was accepted.

Item names changed to follow the guide

The DigiLab news articles that list these items were updated too. The new 16-character names were checked in the game's item lists.

What already matched

• The block of every Net address. The guide writes column-row (6-B) and the game writes row-column (B-6), but they are the same block.
• Where each Digimon fragment is found, and which Digimon it is for.
• Colosseum days: Sky on Monday, Water on Wednesday, Grass on Thursday, Cave on Saturday. The Arena is always open, and Megadramon appears there on Fridays from 17:00 to 18:00.
• The item sets of the "three choices" and the text of the first email.

Differences kept on purpose

• Digimon names and stages: the guide uses the Japanese names (Tailmon, Piyomon, Digitama, Baby/Child/Adult/Perfect). The patch uses the official English names (Gatomon, Biyomon, DigiEgg, In-Training/Rookie/Champion/Ultimate).
• Same meaning, shorter wording: "Prime Meat / Meat / Cheap Meat" instead of "Expensive / Regular / Cheap Meat". Also Fever Med (Antipyretic), Bandage (Band-Aid), Cure-All (Panacea), Sandbag (S-Bag) and PC (Computer). Item names have to fit a 16-character field.
• Closer to the Japanese:
  • Wasteland for 荒野 (the guide has "Plains").
  • Circuit for キバン, a circuit-board wallpaper (the guide has "Foundation").
  • DigiWord for デジワード ("DigiWorld" would be デジワールド).
  • Hair Tonic for 毛はえ薬 (the guide has "Hair Growth").
• Hacker names: the guide's names (Mook Hacker, Funky DJ Hacker…) were not compared. Apart from DigiMonkey, they don't appear in the game's text.

The HOT,8 mistake has also been added to the "Claude made mistakes too" table in the full report below.

Changelog

• v0.9.1 - Fixed translation
• v0.9 – first public release: full English script, ChatGPT first pass and review notes checked line by line by Claude, new English font and text engine, relettered graphics, English name keyboard.

Known issues

• The title logo is kept in Japanese (it already shows "DIGITAL MONSTER Ver.S").
• The two kanji icons in the Shop toolbar are kept (they have BUY/SELL captions).
• Tested in the Yabause core with both the emulated BIOS and the real Japanese BIOS (v1.01); other emulators and real hardware not tested yet. Use the single-file BIN/CUE described above.
• Some lines may still read literal: see "Want to make it better?" above.

Enjoy, and thanks to everyone who takes the time to play it and send feedback!

Full report: ChatGPT vs Claude on Digital Monster Ver. S

ChatGPT's work was a first draft of the 141 mail/news files, built on a partly guessed character map: 88 lines had the wrong Japanese, and the ~2,600 strings inside the program files had not been found. Claude had to read the font pixel by pixel, retranslate everything and build the text engine and the patch, checking every screen in an emulator.

1. What ChatGPT had delivered

ChatGPT had delivered an audit and a draft, not a usable translation, and said so itself ("NOT a full verified game translation or reinsertion-ready patch", font_pixels_verified: false). The "98.99%" quoted in an earlier delivery referred only to the mail files.

2. Misread Japanese

The game does not use Shift-JIS but its own font, so every code has to be matched against the drawing of its character. ChatGPT had assigned many kanji "by meaning", inferring them from context, and on 88 lines it read a different character (30 wrong glyphs). These are the most insidious errors: the rebuilt Japanese looks plausible, so the English reads well too, but it says something else.

The most frequent swaps: 版→誌 (8 times), 接→際 and 直→国 (4 each), 要→然 (3), plus ◎→○ and 左→右. All 88 lines were re-read against the font and retranslated.

3. Symbols and codes left unresolved

The codes ChatGPT could not read were exactly those in addresses, numbers and passwords: the clues the player has to copy into the Search app. On top of that, it had read the star ★ as a middle dot ・ in 43 places.

All of them were resolved by looking at the glyph drawing in the game's font, not at the context.

4. Text never found

Most of the game's text was not in the mail files: menus, descriptions, dialogs and messages live inside the program files. ChatGPT had searched them with a byte scanner that finds "candidate" fragments, but without following the pointers in the code it could not know where a sentence starts and ends, or whether it ever appears on screen.

Total: 2,612 strings (1,214 distinct texts), against ChatGPT's 403 fragments and 20 translated lines. Also left out were the opening story (OPNING.BIN, which has its own font) and every graphic with Japanese text: boot sequence, desktop labels, shop, battles, cards, Net pages, the 14 pages of the Help manual, the ending screen and the opening images.

5. Translation and adaptation issues

Even where the Japanese was right, ChatGPT's English was not ready for the game: it was translated line by line and ignored the width of the windows.

• Piecemeal translation: each line of a message was translated on its own, giving broken sentences such as "or of my achievements or your efforts.". Claude retranslated every message as a whole and then re-wrapped it.
• Length: 338 of the 1,972 lines exceeded the 38 characters that fit on one line of the window (up to 76). With the original full-width font, only about 19 fit.
• Mixed terminology: "Digitama" 21 times next to "DigiEgg"; stage names from the Japanese (Baby, Child, Adult, Perfect) mixed with the dub ones. Everything was unified to one glossary: DigiEgg, In-Training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate.

What ChatGPT got right, and what was kept:

• The official Digimon names were almost all correct and documented (Biyomon, Frigimon, Gatomon, Piximon, Ogremon, Centarumon).
• It correctly spotted a few "real" Shift-JIS codes inside N_NAKA07 (追跡調査, 不明).
• It was honest about what was not verified. On M_NAKA12 it had even noticed that "結婚する直" made no sense, but without the font it could not tell it was "移住する国". Its notes were used as a checklist.

6. How Claude fixed it

There was only one rule: every claim checked on the disc or in the emulator, never inferred from context.

1. Font: Claude extracted the game's font (FONT.CHR) and matched every code against its drawing, correcting the character map.
2. Comparison with ChatGPT: Claude re-decoded the 141 .ME files and compared them with its CSV: 574 lines differed, 88 of them with real errors (the rest only full-width vs half-width characters).
3. Hidden text: Claude disassembled the program modules (SH-2 CPU) and followed the pointers, recovering 2,612 complete strings with all their references.
4. Translation: everything retranslated from the Japanese, message by message, with a glossary of official names and line and character limits for each window, checked by a script.
5. Text engine: a half-width English font with two letters per 16x16 cell (common pairs already in the font, the others composed on the fly by a resident routine hooked into the original code); strings relocated and pointers updated.
6. Intro and graphics: the intro has its own font and adjusted pacing; about 30 groups of images and sprites relettered, keeping their palettes and style.
7. Name keyboard: rebuilt for English, with a routine that merges two letters into the same cell.
8. Verification: every application tested in the emulator, a check that the game never overwrites the added code, and the BPS patch applied and verified on a clean copy of Track 01.

7. Claude made mistakes too

To be fair: Claude made errors as well, but caught them because every change was tested in the game in an emulator, something ChatGPT could not do.

Still open, and listed in the README: the title logo (kept as the original), the two kanji icons on the shop toolbar and a few lines that still read literal.

8. Bottom line

ChatGPT was useful as an inventory and a checklist, not as a source for the text: working without the font, the code or an emulator, it produced plausible but wrong readings that its fluent English hid. The difference was not translation "talent" but systematic verification on the disc and in the game.

• None of ChatGPT's 1,972 English lines went into the patch as they were: all were retranslated message by message.
• Version 0.9 covers 2,581 program strings, 141 mail/news/page files, the intro and the graphics, in a 2.7 MB BPS patch.
• For future projects: use ChatGPT's pass for names, flags and open questions, but always take the Japanese from the game's own font.

I also used Mania Sonic's model as an inspiration

https://www.mediafire.com/file/pj59v7uqu31ps4z/HDJamSonic.glb/file

I'm looking to buy one off Amazon, since that would be easiest for me personally. I know you can just download the game onto the sd card, but I'm not tech savvy at all. Hoping to just place the cart in my Saturn and find the English version of Burning Rangers and Batman Forever since they are so expensive normally. All the help is really appreciated!! thanks!

biside the fact that it's in english not japanese

Wondering if anyone has any idea what this is. I want to remove it and recap to see if it fixes but first want to find out why this has been done. Also is it missing something by R08 or are those blank?

I'm looking into buying a Japanese Saturn on ebay and was wondering what the process was like? I've never imported anything on ebay( I'm in the US) and have some questions. What were and how much were the import fees? If I had to return it, what is that process like? Are there certain models I should look for or is it just looks? Is it worth the hassle or should I just look for an American unit? How was it receiving it, any damage from travel? I've also noticed a lot of yellowed one's which are cheaper, is that usually just cosmetic and any tips on cleaning a Saturn? How common is it for the cartridge slot to be untested and damaged because imma need that for a Pseudo Saturn? Are there better sites to buy from?

Thank you to anyone that replies!

Also apologies if this post is jumbled and disorganized, I'm typing this before I hit the hay.

I don’t want this to turn into a post about how bad or good ai is, this is just a hypothetical thought (personally I don’t like or use ai myself) but with all these AI decompilations coming out recently couldn’t sega finally get their lost code back and port or remaster the game? Whether they would want to use ai or want to rerelease the game in the first place is a different story but I mean they own it so it wouldn’t be illegal.