Translation Mega Drive / Genesis

Streets of Rage 3 English translation

Bare Knuckle III · ベア・ナックルIII

Twilight Translations' English patch for Sega's Bare Knuckle III, translating the story mode dialogue and the Battle mode quotes and fixing the game's rough English.

What's translated

Twilight Translations translated all of the game's text. That covers the story dialogue between stages and the win and lose quotes of the Battle mode, and the patch also fixes the stilted English that the original Battle mode used.

Why it matters

Bare Knuckle III tells a different story from the one Western players got in Streets of Rage 3, and the two versions differ in other ways too. With this patch you can play the Japanese version and follow its plot in English.

Playing it

The patch is version 1.0. According to the creators it was tested on real hardware, on a North American Genesis Model 2, and is written to work on other models as well; no bugs were known at release. Apply it to your own copy of the game following the instructions on the romhack.ing page, which also lists the versions of the game the patch supports.

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