Policenauts English translation
ポリスノーツ
JunkerHQ's English patch for the Saturn version of Kojima's Policenauts, which adds an in-game glossary, light-gun shooting, extra scenes and bonus videos over the PlayStation release.
What's translated
All of the game's Japanese text is in English: dialogue, subtitles for voiced lines, the in-game glossary and the bonus videos. The team built on its 2009 PlayStation translation, with two more translators handling the material added in the Saturn version. They rewrote the subtitle code so they could subtitle a cutscene and the bonus videos that had none in the original, and background chatter is subtitled too.
Fixes and changes
The patch fixes a few graphical glitches and outright mistakes from the original release, such as wrong item icons or name tags, removes text options that no longer make sense in English (like furigana), unlocks a dialogue choice that was locked away in the original, and makes the game region-free. The spoiler-heavy character bios were taken out of the glossary.
Why the Saturn version
Compared with the PlayStation release, the Saturn game has a glossary you can open at any time, a shooting mode with light-gun support, extra scenes and close-ups, reworked lines, smoother anime cutscenes at 24 frames per second and bonus videos after the ending.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own rips of the three Japanese Saturn discs, following the readme on the Policenauts.net patch page. Version 1.0.1 came out in November 2016.