A decade. That’s how long Sengoku BASARA fans have been asking — politely at first, then with mounting despair — for an English version of BASARA 4. As of today, they can stop asking.
Fan developer MrGredy has released Sengoku BASARA 4 — English Translation Patch, a name-your-own-price patcher for the PlayStation 3 version that, by his own reckoning, translates “100%” of Capcom’s hack-and-slash epic: menus, UI, story and character dialogue, and item descriptions. And the timing couldn’t be better — a devlog posted today adds the last missing pieces: “missing translations” filled in, plus subtitles for every kind of realtime cutscene and every movie in the game.
The patcher itself is refreshingly no-nonsense. Extract the ZIP, run patch.bat, pick option 1, and it handles the rest — including rebuilding the movies with hard-encoded English subtitles. The first run needs an internet connection so it can grab FFmpeg for that job, and it backs up your original files first, so flipping back to the Japanese version is a snap. One important note: the patcher doesn’t include the game itself. You’ll need your own PS3 copy — though the project’s itch.io tags name-drop RPCS3, so the emulator crowd is clearly in the mix.
The context here is the real headline. Sengoku BASARA 4 launched on PS3 in Japan on January 23, 2014, with the expanded Sumeragi edition following in 2015 — and Capcom never brought either West. This wasn’t some niche curio, either: Famitsu gave it a 35/40 Platinum score, and the Sumeragi roster runs to 40 playable warriors, from Date Masamune to Sanada Yukimura. It’s Capcom’s loudest, flashiest answer to the musou formula — huge crowds, enormous combos, and the BASARA gauge for when you want a hundred soldiers to regret being on your battlefield.
MrGredy’s own motivation is about as pure as fan projects get. As he puts it on the project page, he “originally made this patch for myself because I wanted to fully enjoy Sengoku BASARA 4 without the language barrier” — and since he’d already done the work, he figured he might as well share it. That’s the whole fan-translation ethos in one sentence.
A few honest caveats, straight from the developer: a few mistakes may have slipped through (report them in the comments and he’ll hear it), and the in-game manual remains untranslated. That’s it. Everything else is English.
One transparency note: the project’s page doesn’t state whether any AI tooling was used in producing the translation, so the method is undeclared — the “100%” claim is the developer’s own. Given the site’s record on AI-transparency, we’re stating that plainly rather than guessing.
Forty characters, a decade of begging, and one fan with a patch.bat. Your move, backlog — have you been sitting on a BASARA 4 import this whole time?
Sources: MrGredy’s Sengoku BASARA 4 — English Translation Patch (project page, October 2026) and Sengoku Basara 4 on Wikipedia (game background).