Most Wanted Saturn/PS1 translations?

[xelement5x]

Interesting choice NeoZeedeater. You always come up with titles I'd love to try. It looks sort of like a Secret of Monkey Island kind of game, with added character interaction.


My choices so far would be:

Saturn

Dragon Force II
Grandia
Policenauts

Actually Policenauts and Dragon Force II have fan translations that have been released! And both of them are quite good!

[robotscandance]

I know some of them have fan translations but I think it would have been cool to have official western releases for these games for saturn:

metal slug
grandia
snatcher
policenauts

[zetastrike]

Saturn translations would get me a lot more excited if I didn't have to use the swap trick or chip the console to read CDRs

[Pulstar]

Segagaga for the Dreamcast. I don't give a rat's arse about most of what's been mentioned, and Policenauts had a neat translation project already so that's done.

[Jeckidy]

I have Saturn Grandia, and despite the Prelude and Digital Museum Expansion discs, it had an inferior framerate compared to the PSX port, even though the Saturn version was more popular (after all, it was Saturn's answer to FF7).

[TrekkiesUnite118]

I have Saturn Grandia, and despite the Prelude and Digital Museum Expansion discs, it had an inferior framerate compared to the PSX port, even though the Saturn version was more popular (after all, it was Saturn's answer to FF7).

Um, what? The Saturn version runs at almost double the framerate of the PS1 port. Yes there's frame rate dips in some of the dungeons, but the PS1 does it to an even worse extent. I own the Saturn version and played through the PS1 port in it's entirety when I borrowed it from a friend years back. The PS1 port was definitely choppier and quite buggy.

Anyways, what I would like to see translated would be the following:

Grandia
Lunar Silver Star Story complete
Lunar 2 Eternal Blue
Magical School Lunar
Sakura Taisen
Sakura Taisen 2

[Jeckidy]

Um, what? The Saturn version runs at almost double the framerate of the PS1 port. Yes there's frame rate dips in some of the dungeons, but the PS1 does it to an even worse extent. I own the Saturn version and played through the PS1 port in it's entirety when I borrowed it from a friend years back. The PS1 port was definitely choppier and quite buggy.

I never played it to completion, but compared the PS1 version under emulation and it didn't seem as slow during the town maps. If it was just an inaccuracy or something I missed, let me know. I will have to give it another shot.
And nice BR avatar you have, I own it and it's also a good game.

[TrekkiesUnite118]

It's definitely inaccuracy I'd say. I played it on my PS2 and it was definitely choppier:



Notice how much faster the mine cart sequence is on the Saturn. Also keep in mind that the Saturn version in that video is running slower than normal since it's being recording from a PAL console. The guy who made the video had to keep editing the PS1 footage to try and keep it in sync with the Saturn version for comparison.

[bultje112]

snatcher
the sega cd version is as rare as hens teeth

though personally i would rather see a lot of re releases
like snatcher
popful mail
lunar

that sort of thing

why in seven hells would you want snatcher for saturn to be translated? that has got to be the worst version

my top 5 for saturn:

grandia
policenauts
dragon force 2
virus
j league tsokorou

I have Saturn Grandia, and despite the Prelude and Digital Museum Expansion discs, it had an inferior framerate compared to the PSX port, even though the Saturn version was more popular (after all, it was Saturn's answer to FF7).

lol this is a troll or something? the framerate is a lot better on saturn. not psx. the saturn version of grandia is superior in about every way

The only things that jump out at me are the rest of Shining Force and Policenauts. Oh, and Snatcher. I'm sure there are tons of decent to good RPGs that could fit the bill, tho'. The stuff like the shooters and fighting games I just import anyway.

If we were talking Dreamcast, the list would begin and end* with Segagaga, of course.


*Okay, maybe not end. I'd be thrilled to death with Rent-a-hero fully translated

that's been translated already for years. I can't believe how many posts I read about shining force 3 scenarios anyway. have you people been living in a cave?

I never played it to completion, but compared the PS1 version under emulation and it didn't seem as slow during the town maps. If it was just an inaccuracy or something I missed, let me know. I will have to give it another shot.
And nice BR avatar you have, I own it and it's also a good game.

stopped reading right there.

[Da_Shocker]

Policenauts
Culdcept
Baroque
Devil Summoner / Soul Hackers
Shin Megami Tensei / 2 / If...
Growlanser
Front Mission 2
Ronde
Riglord Saga 2
Shining Force 3 Scenario 2 / Scenario 3 / Premium Disk



I remember Vic Ireland once said that Dragon Force II was a horrible sequel and we weren't missing anything by not getting it. I wonder if he was just blowing smoke.

Vic also gave us the wonderful Shining Wisdom and Albert Oddesy so i'd take what he has to say with a grain of salt.

[Jeckidy]

lol this is a troll or something? the framerate is a lot better on saturn. not psx. the saturn version of grandia is superior in about every way

Don't make mountains out of molehills, my friend.

stopped reading right there.

Just because it's emulated doesn't guarantee that it will be so inaccurate as to be very far from the real thing. Whether or not my sources for comparison were accurate or not is not an issue as long as I retain my willingness to be corrected.

[MrSega]

Super Adventure Rockman and Deep Fear for Saturn.

[KitsuneNight]

err deep fear has been officially translated already
it was the last official released pal game in 1998

[A Black Falcon]

Magical School Lunar!

I know it has a partial translation/guide, but a full one would be great.

[MrSega]

err deep fear has been officially translated already
it was the last official released pal game in 1998

I'm not referring to PAL. USNTSC.