Huge thanks to @bowloflentils.bsky.social and TrekkiesUnite for their time and effort to further polish the patch for this game!

Bowl of Lentils@bowloflentils.bsky.social · 6mo ago

April 2026 marks the 28th anniversary of Sakura Wars 2 and the 1 year anniversary of our fan translation for the game. To celebrate the occasion, the team has published an update to the patch that fixes various typos and a few untranslated graphics. Enjoy! segaxtreme.net/resources/sa...

April 2026 marks the 28th anniversary of Sakura Wars 2 and the 1 year anniversary of our fan translation for the game. To celebrate the occasion, the team has published an update to the patch that fixes various typos and a few untranslated graphics. Enjoy! segaxtreme.net/resources/sa...

Amazing, I'll make a donation here :) finished the game a couple of weeks ago, really loved it, thank you all for your efforts!

Sakura Wars 2 contains a post-game mode called Long Day that contains a bunch of cool bonus content. One of the small extras I enjoyed was the ability to watch flashbacks of certain scenes through the perspective of the heroines. These include rare sprites of Ogami that you don’t see anywhere else.

Here's the excellent Sakura Wars 2, which is newly translated into English for the first time by a team including @noahsteam.bsky.social, and a bit about how it (and Sakura Wars in general) was doomed from the start outside of Japan, given the way Sega of America worked and the Saturn's low sales.

30 years of the Sega Saturn: Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die

A bigger, better sequel to an already excellent game.

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Thanks to everyone that has been submitting issues with the Sakura Wars 2 patch to our Google form. However, we've been having some trouble replicating the bugs that are being reported. If possible, please resubmit your issue and also provide a link to your save file. Thank you.

Bowl of Lentils@bowloflentils.bsky.social · last yr.

[Sakura Wars 2 Bugs and Typos Thread] If you’ve run into any issues while playing our patch for Sakura Wars 2, please leave a comment below or submit a report on our Google form (link below). We're hoping to address all these problems in a future update. Thank you for your help!

Finished Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die A perfect sequel in practically every way. They took every aspect of the first game that worked and improved upon it, while also simultaneously making some of the weaker aspects of the first game even better. Absolutely fantastic game. Longish thread:

So overall, Sakura Wars 2 is a quintessential example of a perfect sequel. It's just genuinely such an improvement over the first game in every way and it's a near perfect game in my book honestly. VERY VERY great stuff and I highly recommend both this and the first game!

Also shoutouts to the translation team! They did a DAMN good job on this game that I imagine was a fucking nightmare to program and get functioning in a modded state lmao. There's so much love poured into the translation, dare I say as much as was put into the game by the devs.

you have to repost shit like this, because just talking about it makes you sound like an insane conspiracy theorist parroting lies they read on facebook. Like if I told someone this happened, they'd roll their eyes like I was a freak and it'd damage any credibility I had left. you know? #political

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last yr.

Israeli soldiers held a “gender reveal party” by blowing up residential buildings in Gaza and using the explosion’s color to reveal the gender of a newborn Israeli baby. www.instagram.com/p/DJQ-auGqACn

Sakura Wars 2 at Tokyo Game Show in spring 1998.

Did you know we translated/recreated all the original Sakura Wars 2 TV ads, not just this one? You can find a playlist of them here! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Sakura Wars 2 Commercials - YouTube

These are all the commercials we recreated for Sakura Wars 2 based on the original Japanese commercials.

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MattoBii@mattobii.bsky.social · last yr.

IT'S FINALLY HERE! The Sakura Wars 2 English Translation patch is now available to download! It’s been an honor to help translate what is one of my all-time favorite games as part of such a talented and hardworking team. I hope you’ll all enjoy it as much as I do. segaxtreme.net/resources/sa...

[Sakura Wars 2 Bugs and Typos Thread] If you’ve run into any issues while playing our patch for Sakura Wars 2, please leave a comment below or submit a report on our Google form (link below). We're hoping to address all these problems in a future update. Thank you for your help!

Thank you for reaching out and writing this up @wes.readonlymemo.com. For anyone interested in finding out a bit about how the Sakura Wars patches came to be, check this out!

Wes Fenlon@wes.readonlymemo.com · last yr.

New Read Only Memo! This issue is a big one, featuring an interview with @noahsteam.bsky.social and @mattobii.bsky.social about the long-anticipated Sakura Wars 2 fan translation! (And a guest appearance by @cosmicspooks.bsky.social telling you why you really gotta play Sakura Wars)

Heey, Sakura Wars 2 got a fan translation out now! And that's when I realized I never actually drawn Orihime before. Or Reni for a very long time so #art

I was recently asked how you transfer your Sakura Wars 1 save to Sakura Wars 2 on an emulator. So here are some detailed instructions if you are playing the game on Mednafen (which is what we primarily used while testing):

SHE'S SPEAKING IN ENGLISH, IT'S BEAUTIFUL!!! 🥹

If you can't tell by the credits, these projects are a ton of work by talented, passionate people. And we're lucky they're willing to put in the time. Chatted with Sakura Wars 2's project lead @noahsteam.bsky.social and others about this last summer, even.

Passion and Endurance: How Videogame Fan Translations Get Made

Fan translations have made a number of great Japanese videogames, from Mother 3 to Sakura Wars, playable for English speakers.

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Bowl of Lentils@bowloflentils.bsky.social · last yr.

I served as the lead editor on SW2 and it was the most challenging project I've ever been a part of. Translating something of this scale was only possible thanks to all the time and talent each person poured into this patch. So make sure to thank everyone for their awesome work!

I served as the lead editor on SW2 and it was the most challenging project I've ever been a part of. Translating something of this scale was only possible thanks to all the time and talent each person poured into this patch. So make sure to thank everyone for their awesome work!

The Sakura Wars 2 translation is out!! This project first began almost 4 years ago and now it is finally available for everyone to experience. Sakura Wars is a very special series to me and I'm really excited to see what people think of the game and our work. Hope you enjoy it!

NoahSteam 🇵🇸@noahsteam.bsky.social · last yr.

The wait is over! #SakuraWars2 is now playable in both English and Portuguese on the #SegaSaturn! Check out the translated commercials where you can also find links to the download.🧵 @bowloflentils.bsky.social @mattobii.bsky.social @crouchingmouse.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNbi...

The wait is over! #SakuraWars2 is now playable in both English and Portuguese on the #SegaSaturn! Check out the translated commercials where you can also find links to the download.🧵 @bowloflentils.bsky.social @mattobii.bsky.social @crouchingmouse.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNbi...

Sakura Wars 2 English Patch CM 2

YouTube video by TrekkiesUnite

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Finally played through the first Sakura Wars game. I haven’t played a vn before so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but this was a lot of fun! I can see why it’s had such a following all these years later.

An update on #SakuraWars2. We thought we could finish it this year, but to ensure a polished finished product, we’re doing another play through to catch any remaining issues we might’ve missed. As mentioned in this thread, the game is fully translated and playable though!

Bowl of Lentils@bowloflentils.bsky.social · 2y ago

2024 is winding down, so the Sakura Wars 2 translation team would like to share another progress report on our fan patch. Below are some highlight videos and a thread with additional details.🧵 @noahsteam.bsky.social, @mattobii.bsky.social, @crouchingmouse.bsky.social, @justjoqu.bsky.social.

Just finished Dragon Force 2. This game is a hidden gem. It was highly addictive. I couldn’t put my phone down. Having RetroArch available on my phone has made this into the ultimate mobile gaming device for me. I think I’ll finely be able to get through by Saturn backlog.

Finally playing through Dragon Force 2 and I’ve gotta say, this game is great! I recall it being mediocre while working on the patch, but it’s just as fun as the original. The only thing holding it back is the music.

"Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds." And yet the civilised West is doing precisely nothing to bring about a ceasefire as a prelude to saving these hundreds of thousands of children who now live on death row. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds

Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people

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The previous post being my first post on here, I guess I messed something up because it didn’t post the video! So including it here.

#SakuraWars2 has a bunch of different minigames. All of these contain their own set of images and files. The one that’s been the most time consuming to fix up was the “Trump Wars” card game.