Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die English translation
サクラ大戦2 ～君、死にたもうことなかれ～ · Sakura Taisen 2: Kimi, Shinitamou Koto Nakare
The Sakura Wars Translation Project's full English patch for the three-disc Saturn sequel, covering story and battle dialogue, minigames, menus and subtitled movies.
What's translated
The patch covers the story and battle dialogue, the minigames, battle and system menus, boss images, load screens, the boot-up screen, the theater room names and everything in the Long Day extra. The anime movies have new English subtitles. Version 1.1.0, released in April 2026, corrects typos and script errors and translates menu graphics that the first release had left in Japanese.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese Saturn discs with Sega Saturn Patcher, following the team's instructions. Two disc revisions are supported (GS-9169 and GS-9198), and the same patch file is used for all three discs. The team tested it on Mednafen and on real hardware with burned discs or an optical drive emulator; voice lines are still timed to the original Japanese text, and the SAROO loader is known to struggle with this game.
Credits
NoahSteam led the project and handled reverse engineering and tools with TrekkiesUnite118, who also did the movie subtitles. MattoBii and CrouchingMouse led the translation with Natsume38, Neko and MatatabiMitsu, and BowlOfLentils was lead editor, with a larger team on graphics, editing and testing.