• Policenauts (Official game website) Policenauts.net (The English translation patch for the PSX version of the game can be downloaded from this site. It also contains a summarized timeline of the game's events, among other things.) The Policenauts Paradise and Snatcher Shrine (A site dedicated to Hideo Kojima's games 'Policenauts' and 'Snatcher.
• Retro Game Information Page for Policenauts Disc 1 of 3 (J) on the Sega Saturn. Play now on your PC, Mac, or Mobile Device!

1. Policenauts Ps1 English Rom
2. Policenauts Saturn Rom
3. Policenauts Sega Saturn English Translation
4. Policenauts Saturn English Download
5. Policenauts Sega Saturn English

The game was added to the 's Japanese Game Archives on May 15, 2008, making the game downloadable for the. English fan translation The Saturn version of Policenauts was officially announced for a North American release by Konami on May 1996.

Policenauts Ps1 English Rom

Before Metal Gear Solid, there was Policenauts. A buddy-cop meets science-fiction adventure about drugs, women and the vastness of space. While it was released to critical acclaim, it only truly came to the west in 2009 when a fan translation patch was released for english speaking audiences. Even since then however, Policenauts has floundered in Metal Gear’s shadow; never truly breaking into mainstream appeal. But is Kojima’s point-and-click underrated even today?

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To answer this, we ask ourselves:

Policenauts Saturn Rom

• Is a hard sci-fi setting the perfect complement to a buddy-cop drama? Or does it leave a bad taste in the players mouth?

• If Metal Gear Solid 4 was a movie, then what does that make this?

• Did Kojima’s penchant for insane details serve this game well, or does the story drown amongst the details?

Find out the answers to these questions and many more on the 16th episode of the Retro Spectives Podcast!

Getting the game running:

1. Obtain a legal copy of an english-patched, Sega Saturn Policenauts ROM

2. Download a recent copy of the SSF Sega Saturn Emulator

3. Obtain a copy of a Japanese Sega Saturn Bios

4. Use the guide below to get it running with a couple of caveats

   1. You must use the Japanese Bios from Step 3 instead of the ones in the article

   2. Even if you have Windows 10, you must install a 3rd party Virtual
      CD-Drive in order to mount the ISO files.
      Do not waste 90minutes like I did before I realised the Windows mounting tool does not work.

   3. Make sure your emulator’s Area Code is set to Japan

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Policenauts Sega Saturn English Translation

Intro Music: KieLoBot - Tanzen K

Outro Music: Rockit Maxx - One point to another

Policenauts OST: Motoaki Furukawa, Koichi Namiki

Policenauts Saturn English Download

Policenauts, Hideo Kojima’s 1996 interactive sci-fi detective story, wasnt available in English until 2009 when a group of dedicated fans at Junker HQ released a translation patch for the game’s PlayStation port. Since Konami never officially localized the game, English-speaking players had to make do with this, dealing with some cut content and other issues. No longer.

Earlier this month, the Junker team finished work on a patch for the “complete” Sega Saturn edition, making it possible to finally play Policenauts in its entirety without a working knowledge of Japanese. If you’re a fan of Kojima’s brand of storytelling, you’ll want to check it out.

Policenauts Sega Saturn English

Over at Policenauts.net, the team has released very detailed instructions on what you need to do to get the game up and running on your PC (or Mac), and it requires a little bit of legwork. The patch itself is a series of files that must be applied to the game’s .iso and .cue files, which means you’ll need to do a little bit of command line tinkering to ultimately replace the Japanese with English text.

As for getting the game to work, it took me about an hour to muddle through the process and get it working on my MacBook Air with no coding knowledge whatsoever, though the process is actually short and relatively simple. If you follow the instructions, you shouldn’t run into any major issues. Just keep in mind they include extra steps to rip the necessary files from actual Policenauts discs, which you can skip if you feel comfortable finding the .iso files needed for emulation online.

And what does playing Policenauts feel like 20 years after its release? If you can stomach the point-and-click interface, it holds up pretty well. The pixel art of the Saturn release is great, particularly in the game’s light gun shooting sections, a holdover from Kojima’s Snatcher. Junker should also be commended on their stellar translation work, which captures the voice and tone of the game’s hardboiled protagonist with what I can only imagine is extreme authenticity; and it helps make up for the age of its design. Even two decades later, this is definitely a Kojima game.

It’s also interesting to play now as an early glimpse at Kojima-isms. His attentive prescience about technology and society is present here in mentions of things like virtual reality porn and artificial organs, and if you’ve ever wondered where his use of the font Helvetica and tendency to introduce characters by name and voice actor during cutscenes comes from, it’s here.

Need more convincing? Right off the bat there’s relatively blatant references to Blade Runner, Lethal Weapon, and 2001. Some things never change. Now you have no excuse to not see it for yourself.