SegaSaturn Developer’s Documentation Version 2.50 - English translation

[Nemesis]

Hey guys, great to see the community so active here! I'm dropping in because I had some time to do a few long overdue updates to my site at Exodus Technical Documentation, finally adding the "SegaSaturn - Developer Tool Kit" from August 1997 that's been around for years now. Since this CD contains the last and most complete collection of Sega Saturn technical documentation, I decided to do a quick and dirty translation from Japanese to English to make it more accessible. I was going to stop with a tool-based conversion.... but I got more obsessive about it and it turned into me manually going through over 1000 html files and another 1000 images, manually correcting layout and translation problems. It's taken the last three weeks of my life and just about drove me insane from the mind-numbing tedium of the task, but it's done now. I'm hosting a live version of the site here:
http://docs.exodusemulator.com/Archives/SSDDV25

You can also download the complete documentation as a zip archive you can open locally from the Saturn Documentation section of my site. No need to use a webserver, just open index.html in the root and it'll work.

I personally find this web-based version much more accessible than the million separate pdf files the English manuals take the form of, and this incorporates a lot of fixes and extra information never included in them, since the Saturn was killed off outside Japan much sooner. I hope you guys find this useful.

 

[ndiddy]

I did something similar when I first released the disc (used the Google Translate API) but didn't link it outside the Discord because people there thought Sega's translation was better. I also didn't bother cleaning up the formatting or translating the images. I think it's more comprehensible than yours in some parts, so feel free to pick and choose files to incorporate into your version if you want. If you're interested I can zip up the translated HTML files. SEGA SATURN Developer's Documentation Rel.2 / Homepage

 

[nando]

Hey guys, great to see the community so active here! I'm dropping in because I had some time to do a few long overdue updates to my site at Exodus Technical Documentation, finally adding the "SegaSaturn - Developer Tool Kit" from August 1997 that's been around for years now. Since this CD contains the last and most complete collection of Sega Saturn technical documentation, I decided to do a quick and dirty translation from Japanese to English to make it more accessible. I was going to stop with a tool-based conversion.... but I got more obsessive about it and it turned into me manually going through over 1000 html files and another 1000 images, manually correcting layout and translation problems. It's taken the last three weeks of my life and just about drove me insane from the mind-numbing tedium of the task, but it's done now. I'm hosting a live version of the site here:
http://docs.exodusemulator.com/Archives/SSDDV25

You can also download the complete documentation as a zip archive you can open locally from the Saturn Documentation section of my site. No need to use a webserver, just open index.html in the root and it'll work.

I personally find this web-based version much more accessible than the million separate pdf files the English manuals take the form of, and this incorporates a lot of fixes and extra information never included in them, since the Saturn was killed off outside Japan much sooner. I hope you guys find this useful.

Dude! I didn't realize you were here, but, obviously..

Anyway, your site is awesome, I have found it super useful. So it was pretty stressing when it went down a couple weeks ago 😀

Would you be open to the community hosting a mirror of it? Obviously, a lot of work went into it. I tried to get archive.org to take snapshots as a backup, but it doesn't work due to how the URLs are made..