Super Tempo English translation
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An English patch for the Japan-only Saturn platformer Super Tempo that covers the story scenes, shops, menus, ending and most of the Japanese text drawn into the graphics.
What's translated
The whole game can now be played in English. That includes the opening and attract-mode story, the Techno Mask scene and the other cutscenes, the title and options menus, both prize shops, the final appraisal with its verdicts, and the ending letter, rankings and THE END screen.
A good share of the work went into graphics: the pause menu in every stage, a boss hint, the answers of the round 5 quiz, sound-effect bubbles and signs around the stages were all redrawn with English text. A narrow Latin font replaces the original 16×16 characters so English lines fit on screen.
Two small bits remain in Japanese, the rich-list banner in the ending ranking and the columns in the final boss arena, and the authors plan a polish pass on the script. One tester reported a hang after the final boss on real hardware that could not be reproduced.
Playing it
The patch changes only the first track of the Japanese disc and is applied to your own copy following the steps on the project page. It was tested in Mednafen and on a Japanese Saturn with a SAROO cartridge. The repository also carries the English and Japanese scripts and the build tools.
Credits
Translation and hacking by RetroPlayingBCN, who state that the translation was made with the help of AI (Claude). They also wrote about the release, in Spanish, on their blog.
Found via www.retroplayingbcn.es