Remember that 1997 movie Face Off, where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage literally swap faces? It was done the year prior in DeathMask — an FMV adventure game converted to Japanese Saturns from the English PC original.

Read Peter Malek's thoughts on DeathMask, which got an English fan translation in 2021:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/01/28/deathmask-bestofsaturn/

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Logic Puzzle: Rainbow Town, a Japan-exclusive Saturn game produced and released by Human Entertainment in early 1996, features more than 700 unique and progressively more challenging puzzles.

Read Peter's #BestOfSaturn writeup here:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/01/21/logic-puzzle-rainbow-town-bestofsaturn/

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A summer 1997 release in Japan, Aorn’s Rabbit is a 2D versus fighting game similar in feel to the Street Fighter 2 series. The visuals are very colorful and the action zooms in and out as characters approach each other or pull back. Give Rabbit a try… It’s fun!

Peter's #BestOfSaturn writeup is here:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/01/14/rabbit-bestofsaturn/

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Happy holidays — there's a new English translation of a Saturn game to play! It's for Airs Adventure, an "it's so bad it's good" RPG. Read about the team behind the patch and where to get it in my story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/12/19/english-translation-patch-for-airs-adventure-is-complete/

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Willy Wombat, the Japan-exclusive Saturn 3D platformer from Hudson and Westone, already had English voices ... but now, thanks to Exxistence's new patch, the menus and on-screen choices are translated, too! Get the details here:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/12/05/english-improvement-patch-makes-willy-wombat-more-accessible-than-ever/

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With so many English fan translations in progress for the Saturn, it can be hard to keep track of them all. I take a look at three of them — Wizardry 6, Magic School Lunar and Yu-No:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/07/10/translation-project-updates-wizardry-lunar-yu-no/

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Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is playable in English on the Sega Saturn for the very first time thanks to fan hacker Lirinica! I've got the details:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/05/13/english-patch-for-dd-tower-of-doom-is-out-now/

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The Dreamcast online scene is taking flight with its three Aero Dancing flight sims getting revived servers thanks to a fan named Shuouma! Not only that, pcwzrd13 translated their menus into English!

Get the details in my fellow SHIRO! Gregori Rasputin's story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/05/05/trio-of-aero-dancing-titles-are-back-online/

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Point-and-click adventure Dark Seed got a port to the Saturn only in Japan ... but now, you can play it on Sega's 32-bit console in English or French thanks to fan hacker Kitchen34! Get the details in my story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/04/24/english-patch-for-dark-seed-is-available-now/

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