A fan-made English patch for the Saturn version of first-person roguelike RPG Baroque is now available, coming less than two months after developer Plissken announced he was working on it.
The patch uses the Xdelta patcher. You can download a ZIP file with the patch and a copy of the Xdelda patcher here.
Note that the patch's readme file says "Input file should be merged bin (all tracks in one file)" but you may have ripped your legally obtained copy of Baroque — or found a version on a certain popular archival website — that splits the game into two BIN files. That means you'll have to merge those two BINs into one, which can be done using Knight0fDragon's Sega Saturn Patcher utility.
For a tutorial on how to do that, see my full story on Sega Saturn Shiro.

Baroque was a Japanese Saturn exclusive when developer Sting and publisher ESP launched it in May 1998 until it was ported to the PlayStation — also in Japan only — in October 1999. It eventually got North American and European releases when it was remade on the PS2 in 2007 and on the Wii in 2008. Each version has had tweaks, though, such as having longer campaigns — the Saturn original has a main dungeon that's shorter than the PS1 port by about 10 floors, for example.
Plissken already put out a translation patch for the PlayStation version of Baroque in October 2021. It was his first translation project, and he used the extensive translations found on a fan website called The Nerve Tower with the author’s permission. That author is identified in today's patch as a person named Grey.
Fast forward a year and a half to May 2023 when Plissken translated an adventure game called Prisoner of Ice. He released a patch for the PS1 version first, then shortly thereafter created one for the Saturn, which Shiro reported on at the time. That was his first time working on a Saturn project, and he said it went so well that he wanted to try applying his Baroque translation to the Saturn version of that game, too.
So just a couple weeks after the Prisoner of Ice patch, on May 21, Plissken announced he was working on the Saturn version of Baroque, complete with teaser video.
