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English fan translations of games that were only ever released in Japan.

These are unofficial fan translations, released as patches. No game files are shared here. You'll need a dump of your own legally owned copy of each game.

Found a bug, a typo or a line that reads oddly? Email justin@tooncesoft.com, with a screenshot if you can.

Tengai Makyou IV: The Apocalypse

Status
Released
Version
1.2
Platform
Sega Saturn (2 discs)

Hudson's 1997 RPG, in English from the opening movie to the ending credits.

Tengai Makyou: Daiyon no Mokushiroku was made by Hudson and Red Company and released only in Japan. This patch translates the complete game: story, menus, battles, every minigame and the ending, with English subtitles burned into the anime movies.

Plays start to finish on a Fenrir ODE

This is one of very few Saturn games that gives you no chance to save before it asks for Disc 2, so an optical drive emulator like the Fenrir, which can't swap discs mid-game, could never get past it. The patch fixes that. When the game asks for the other disc, it first saves your progress to a free save record. Reset, boot the other disc and load that record to carry on exactly where you were. Swapping real discs still works as before.

  • All story dialogue, narration, NPCs, shops and inns, with the hero named Rizing throughout
  • Menus, items, equipment, magic, arts, status and save screens
  • Battle commands, messages, enemy names and the battle HUD
  • Every minigame: roulette, poker, blackjack, sumo, robot battles, the stock market, the lottery, the puzzle and the T-shirt designer (with an English keyboard)
  • English subtitles for the spoken lines in the anime movies, the opening narration and voiced lines that had no text in the original
  • Tested in Mednafen, in Beetle Saturn and on a real Saturn

What you need

A dump of both discs from your own legally owned copy of the game, in Redump format (BIN/CUE). The patches are xdelta files for Track 1 of each disc, and the README lists the exact dumps and checksums.

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Latest update: Tengai Makyou IV English patch v1.2, November 9, 2026

El Dorado Gate, Vols. 1–7

Status
Released
Version
1.2.2
Platform
Sega Dreamcast

All seven volumes of Capcom's episodic Dreamcast RPG, in English.

Capcom released El Dorado Gate in Japan one volume at a time between 2000 and 2001, with character art by Yoshitaka Amano. Each volume has its own patch, and the same names and terms are used across all seven, so you can play the whole series in English from start to finish.

  • All dialogue, menus, items, enemies, the encyclopedia and the title screen
  • The Monster Gallery and Art Gallery extras in the later volumes
  • Patched volumes are region free, so they run on a US, European or Japanese Dreamcast
  • Load your save from the previous volume to carry your party over, as on the original discs
  • Plays on a Dreamcast with a GDEMU, or in Flycast and Redream

What you need

A GDI dump of each volume from your own legally owned copies of the games. Each patch is an xdelta file for that volume's track03.bin, and its README lists the exact dump and checksums.

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Latest update: El Dorado Gate v1.2.2 tidies up the stat boxes, November 11, 2026

Magic School Lunar!

Status
Released
Version
1.1
Platform
Sega Saturn

Game Arts' 1997 Lunar spin-off, fully playable in English.

Ellie and Lena, two village girls who can fly, are scouted for the Magic School on Ien, a floating island that sails from place to place. Mahou Gakuen Lunar! is Game Arts' 1997 Saturn remake of Lunar: Walking School, and it was never released outside Japan.

Still in Japanese: the title logo, the chapter title cards and a few labels that are drawn as pictures. The voice acting is Japanese, as in the original.

  • All story dialogue, from the prologue through all 12 chapters (about 10,750 messages)
  • Menus, items, every spell, battle commands and messages, and enemy names
  • English subtitles for the anime cutscenes
  • A new English font, drawn in the game's own font format
  • A one-click patcher for Windows, plus an xdelta patch for any system
  • Tested in Mednafen; plays on a real Saturn from a burned disc or a Fenrir ODE

What you need

A dump of your own legally owned copy of Mahou Gakuen Lunar! (Japan) (2M), in Redump format. Only Track 01 is patched. On a non-Japanese Saturn you'll also need a region-free BIOS or mod, or your ODE's region setting.

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Latest update: The first Tooncesoft translations are live, November 4, 2026