Bulk Slash Fan Translation - An Innovation in Saturn Fan Translations

After many months of waiting (And years of only being able to play in Japanese), Bulk Slash finally has an English Localization that makes the game 100% playable and understandable to fans in the west!
In this video, we look briefly into the gameplay of Bulk Slash, and then talk about all the changes and staff involved with this patch.
Thanks again to all the amazing people who worked on this translation, this came out fantastic, especially only being done in less than a year!
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[@TheSouthernSegaGentleman]

Yall blew this out of the park gents! Both the Translation team, as well as the Shiro Crew making sure to keep the community up to date on its progress. Seeing this game finally brought to the west in a way that allows for a complete experience for non-Japanese speaking folks is a dream come true, and I truly hope that countless numbers of gamers jump on the chance to experience this masterclass in mecha greatness.

[@martinevans1206]

So who is your favourite Waifu, then?!

[@chanhjohnnguyen1867]

So who’s best girl to you?

[@TheSouthernSegaGentleman]

It's a toss up between Leone Rhodes and Rupia Rude at this point. Leon bc she's always been first so I played her the most, and Rupia bc, well I mean she'd actually have a jug of sweet tea with her 🤣

[@martinevans1206]

@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 I still need to play the game for the first time! 😱

[@samaeldrakul4191]

Absolutely beautiful work!

[@ValthorEldr]

You should rename the title to "An Innovation in Fan Translations" Not just Saturn. This raised the bar for every ongoing and future project like it, and I have nothing but love for the team that made this happen! Great video!

[@deckofcards87]

These guys did an exceptional job. This is probably the best game I've played on the Saturn so I get why they devoted all their time and resources to it.

[@SEGASATURNSHIRO]

It's definitely one of my favorite! Was dying for someone to come along and patch it, and all I can say is that we are so lucky to have a community with such talented and hard working individuals!

[@jongeo]

Thanks so much for the shoutout. Glad to be able to help.

[@caseyhayes4590]

Saturn translations are on FIRE after so many years of hopelessness. I wonder how much of it has to do with emulation finally getting better and easier so people who didn't own Saturn and import games in the late 90s could see how incredible it was and one of the best consoles of all time. I think a lot of gamers just never knew.

[@chanhjohnnguyen1867]

Computers got strong enough to emulate them well along with one of the emulators has a decent debugger

[@caseyhayes4590]

@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 I think the Shining Force translation project was driven by people playing on actual hardware but all the rest of this recent wave has been driven by emulation and a little by the collector market boom...and I'm fine with it either way!!! Keep them coming. Some of these projects I never even dreamt of, this one was just an awesome bonus because the game was playable.

[@DaigoKengo]

That first 40 seconds was definitely from a Parallel Universe but makes up for it in reality afterward.

[@superpan218]

Now all we need is to bring this game to modern platforms!

[@obscuremix8198]

The voice acting is so 90’s in the best possible way and I love it. This should be ported to every console under the sun alongside other Saturn games. Guardian Force, Cotton 2 and Boomerang were. CITY CONNECTION PLEASE!

[@SEGASATURNSHIRO]

They really did a fantastic job!

[@obscuremix8198]

@@SEGASATURNSHIRO I know it will probably never happen, but it would be amazing if City Connection ported this games and maybe hired these voice actors and programmers to bring some of these Saturn games to the west. All these awesome community patches demonstrate that there is a market for this games. It may never happen but regardless the Saturn community, programmers, voice actors and you have my utmost respect. If there is any way I can support you all I would love to do it.

[@SgtSega]

Holy crap! The dub is actually good!

[@FlameIberianWolf]

Seriously, thanks to everyone that worked on this. I never actually gave this game a shot due to the language barrier but looked interestin and shows what's the Saturn could do. The Mech reminds me of Tenjin from Virtual on which I love. I really hope this team and the saturn community brings more projects like this to life. Thank you everyone for this. Feels like a new saturn release in 2021! Can't wait to try

[@link13thedude]

Super excited to watch this. Anything with a twin stick control system should be available to everyone.

[@jeremysart]

Oh man, the stage 6 boss was such a pain! Great game, I’m really enjoying it! Super thankful for the translation. Now on to stage 7!

[@andersdenkend]

Well done, that sounds absolutely professional.

[@ForeverWinter1812]

Everything about this hits so good and it's never been a better time to be a Saturn fan

[@vj7248]

game looks super fun like a mecha space harrier. and it's wild that it got an english dub along with it's translation. a dub that woulda fit perfectly in that 90s dubbing era.

[@mistersurrealist]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU. This is a dream come true, your team did an A+ job with the localization. I wonder what you'll tackle next, hopefully another Saturn gem that got stuck in the land of the rising sun.

[@Goreface69]

This is so unbelievably hype

[@Deexeh]

If you own a Saturn and don't have a (pseudo)Saturn way to play back-up disks or images.. you're a mad lad! This games worth a play through. The fact they also went through the trouble to design and release the documentation with it too is too cool! Plus it looks dope on a CRT. Thanks to all involved to make English Bulk Slash come to life.

[@Razorblade1812]

I saw pieces of footage of the game on Matt McMuscles' recent Wha Happun? episode on the Sega Saturn. Despite being mostly PlayStation oriented, given that I grew up with PlayStation throughout my childhood, but having shifted myself purely towards PC as well as Asia in recent years as a result of the incredible Hentai hype on Steam back in the late 2010s thanks to a little breakout title from Hong Kong called Mirror, looking at the footage, I became a little curious about the game, but didn't really know the name of it until I saw a video in my feed of MiSTer FPGA DE10 NANO testing games on the Sega Saturn, where one of the "MISSes" from the game is shown on the thumbnail. And I'm asking myself "What exactly is this game? It must be something really good....". That's when I saw more footage of the game, then looked into the list of games shown in the video and that's when I found the name of "Bulk Slash". That's how, after doing some research on the game, I finally came across this very video that makes me become interested in playing the game. Can't really believe that the company famous for Bomberman and Bloody Roar, both of which I knew from the PlayStation, before their acquisition by the now-dreaded Konami, made this. I can always say the Japanese Sega Saturn has a more incredible library than of what the PlayStation had despite its super-complex architecture that, as we knew, was an absolute &!+

[@SerdceDanko]

I dont get why such a great game wasn't published worldwide.

[@GhibliNova]

I hope you guys become a Translation Studio of sorts. The Saturn has so many games that need a translation. I don't know how you could but I think there is a huge untapped market of translating old games, they're always done for free, but with this level of quality here in Bulk Slash I really think you guys at Shiro could become the first actual Retro-Localization team. There are so many games that you could make a profit on. For the Saturn alone there is: Samurai Shodown RPG, Princess Crown, Wachenroder, Madou Monotagari, Blue Seed, Code R, Devil Summoners, Dungeons and Dragons, Gal Act Heroism, Feda Remake, Far Land Saga, Genso Suikoden (has exclusive content), Ginga Densetsu series, Grandia Digital Musem, Keriotosse, Gundam Series, Langrisser series, Lunar 2, Lupin the 3rd series, Mahou Gakuen Lunar, Prikura Daisakusen, Sword & Sworcery, Soeldenerschild, Densetsu no Ogre Battle, Cyber Doll, Blue Breaker, Black Matrix, Baroque, Bakuretsu Hunter R, Back Guiner series, Pu Li Ru La, AnEarth Fantasy Stories, Albert Odyssey Gaiden, Airs Adventure, Advanced World War, and Ronde. Idk how you could, but you should find a way, it'd be awesome

[@chanhjohnnguyen1867]

I’d love that, but I wonder how much red tape we’d have to fight through just with Konami and this game

[@GhibliNova]

@@chanhjohnnguyen1867 the thing about translations is that you wouldnt have to deal with companies. Just like now, only the people working to do all of it would be getting a bit of money

[@knight0fdragon]

@@GhibliNova not sure what you mean by this. There is still red tape with dealing with translations. While the Bulk Slash team owns the copyright to the translation itself, all of the other assets are owned by Konami (at least to the best of our knowledge). Selling the translation causes us to violate another area in copyright law dealing with derivative works because Konami would have a valid claim that there is a loss of income.

[@GhibliNova]

@@knight0fdragon oh I see, I didn't realize that... dang.

[@SonofSethoitae]

Don't forget Far East of Eden: The Fourth Apocalypse

[@locked01]

The more I watch Saturn games videos, the more I understand why it was the underdog. SEGA should have equipped it with the bloody 3DFX, even if it costed twice the PlayStation price.

[@ILLRICARDO]

I really hope fist of the north star gets an English translation like this.

[@Zeithri]

Excellent video. I still long for that MegaCD translation of Shadowrun that was forgotten and brushed away almost 10 years ago now. I wonder how much a Saturn would cost me.. 300$ AHAHAHAHA ... Yeah no. Ridiculous prices. I hope the retrogame bubble bursts soon.

[@chanhjohnnguyen1867]

Emulators is it is then

[@Gorilla_Jones]

Awesome!

[@john.infinite78]

I want this on S Tribute, and or Zebra Engine, would pay going rate for previous titles released thus far. This NEEDS to be re released on console PLEASE!

[@SEGASATURNSHIRO]

It's on Sega Saturn. That's a console

[@TheNucaKola]

Hey is there a source for the English long box game artwork at 22:29?

[@SaturnDave]

Me

[@TheNucaKola]

@@SaturnDave it looks great! Is there any chance I can purchase a repo case from you for the game?

[@caseycu]

Amazing! I’ve played the Japanese version and would really enjoy playing this translation! Really great work! Referring to the navigator as a “miss” is kind of cringe though. I get that’s what they were called in the Japanese version, but…

[@DreamcastVibes]

So fucking cool.

[@SgtSega]

Mech games are popular in the west, but it was the 90s and any kind of anime date sim or something related to that never stood a chance of coming over to the west. Same deal for Sakura Wars despite being a decent strategy game.

[@mattbabb921]

i just downloaded the english patched game straight straight from cdromanace and didnt have to patch anything, worked straight away after downloading

[@Anna_Rae]

At 20:50 the character stutters when she says “target set”. Is that intentional? I’m mostly curious

[@PandaMoniumReviews]

I believe she was in the middle of giving some kind of direction on where the target is, but got interrupted when the target got reached.

[@Big5mokE719]

".... To make working designs green with envy".... Well, they were kind of a half ass group not the most professional translators. They started business doing office programs then switched to game translations and localization very quickly and did so very loosely. They included tons of their own humor and jokes into the translations that weren't in the original and they did a lot of the voice acting themselves. So putting them up there as the top translation team is an insult. With that being said they WERE a great company in their own right and brought us a lot of awesome games we would of never seen if it wasn't for them. They definitely deserve a lot of respect for what they did to the American game industry but shouldn't be compared to the tops in the field. Theres a reason most of their games are modded and re released as "unworking designs"

[@johnventura764]

burned it to a BLANK CD then put in in my sega saturn

[@lavosier2]

Como eu joguei esse jogo no Sega Saturn.

[@johnventura764]

cool game

[@SieffrePlays]

"If English dubs killed your parents". hahaha! Can't believe people complained about the dub. It's impressive how well all the new voices fit the artwork. Weeaboos are the worst.