Policenauts on Saturn translation project complete

[poponon]

for those interested, policenauts on saturn now has a complete translation patch. I gotta try this out on real hardware soon.

http://policenauts.net/english/patches.html

[Black Tiger]

Glad I never got around to trying the PSX patch.

[Necromancer]

Cool.  Hopefully now they'll turn their attention to translating PCE Snatcher.

[poponon]

Glad I never got around to trying the PSX patch.

I didn't even realize this was a thing  :oops: - I've never been into adventure games and still have to get to snatcher. maybe i'll give it a go this weekend .

[NightWolve]

Guilty of still not having played the SegaCD version of Snatcher myself so I wouldn't skip forward to this. Learned of it yesterday too and shared for anyone that would make the time for it.

[DragonmasterDan]

Wow nice. I've played through it on 3DO years ago but never got around to playing entirely through the fanslation on Playstation. I may try the supposedly updated Saturn version.

[Black Tiger]

I bought the Saturn version bitd and made guides for the gaijin protection. It is definitely noticeably updated compared to the PSX version. The 3DO version would be preferable if it really has the Snatcher style talking heads. I remember seeing them in screenshots, but didn't come across any as far as I played into it.

[NightWolve]

the fanslation on Playstation.

Clever, for a "DragonMaster" that is...

[poponon]

The readme for the translation covers a bunch of the differences between versions

II. Saturn Version Differences
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Present in the original game, these differences also apply to the English patch.

- The game's glossary, previously available on Policenauts.net, can now be accessed in-game at any time by pressing the Z or Start buttons. The first time a term in the glossary appears in any game text, be it in-game or voiced, it is followed by an asterisk, indicating it as a glossary term. The glossary can be browsed by three methods: Recent (the twelve most recent terms that have appeared), Categories, or Alphabetical.

- Support for the Virtua Gun/Stunner peripheral. There is also a Shooting Mode in which the player can access the Shooting Trainer or any of the game's shooting scenes (after completing them in the story once). Note that the scenes you can access depend on which disc is in the system. For example, if you want to access a shooting scene on Disc 2, you must enter Shooting Mode from Disc 2.

- Additional scenes.

- Altered dialogue in a handful of scenes.

- Additional character close-ups.

- Additional "breast bouncing" interactions and uncensored bouncing. (Sony censored the PlayStation version by having the bouncing animation toned down.)

- Bonus videos that become available after completing the game.

- Two alternate versions of the ending credits. The easiest way to access these is simply reload the final save point in the game; you do not have to replay the entire game to view them.

- Support for the Back-Up RAM Cartridge/Power Memory peripheral.

- The anime cutscenes now run at 24 frames per second, instead of 15 in the PlayStation version, but the video quality is slightly reduced.

Like the PlayStation version, the Saturn version supports the Shuttle Mouse peripheral.

Also like the PlayStation version, if you have save data from the game Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You, the game will insert additional dialogue into a handful of conversations, depending on how you played Tokimeki Memorial. This consists of throwaway jokes that imagine Jonathan Ingram as being the protagonist in Tokimeki Memorial. Though as of this writing no English translation patch for the Saturn (or PlayStation) version of Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You is available, like the PlayStation patch we future-proofed the patch by translating this dialogue as well.

[Medic_wheat]

Ohhhhh. Interested.

[Black Tiger]

The Saturn version also has a bunch of extra effects like transparencies, pockets of animation in backgrounds and all kinds of touches that aren't in the Playstation version.

[technozombie]

Guilty of still not having played the SegaCD version of Snatcher myself so I wouldn't skip forward to this. Learned of it yesterday too and shared for anyone that would make the time for it.

I'm in the same boat. I've wanted to play Snatcher since I first seen pics of it in magazines back in the day. I have recently been contemplating burning a copy of it because I'll never buy one.

[Dicer]

Cool.  Hopefully now they'll turn their attention to translating PCE Snatcher.

Would anyone both with the SegaCD already having a English version, not that I'd mind, just wondering.

[DragonmasterDan]

Cool.  Hopefully now they'll turn their attention to translating PCE Snatcher.

Would anyone both with the SegaCD already having a English version, not that I'd mind, just wondering.

Someone translated the MSX Snatcher as well. So people clearly do this, and there's already mostly all of the same assets available from the Sega CD one.

[Necromancer]

Would anyone [bother] with the SegaCD already having a English version, not that I'd mind, just wondering.

The odds of it ever happening are long, sure, but a robot can dream!