Segagaga
Shares rank 34 of 78 video games by recommenders
Long-awaited English translation of the Dreamcast game, praised as a technical achievement that makes it understandable in English. Common caveat: the script reads stiff and machine-translated, with lost puns.
Long-awaited English translation of the Dreamcast game, praised as a technical achievement that makes it understandable in English. Common caveat: the script reads stiff and machine-translated, with lost puns.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Long-awaited English version finally playable
“This is the first time Dreamcast owners can play it in a more understandable way”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” “So excited for this - have been dying to play it for at least a decade.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” “This is absolutely amazing and I can't wait to deep dive on this.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” Impressive technical achievement, font work
“Amazing technical achievement, and also a very unfortunate situation with the reliance on AI translation”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” “such a lazy followthru given the technical hurdles overcome wrt the font tech”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Stiff, machine-translated script with errors
“the script seems stiff and overly formal, much like how direct machine translation of Japanese text reads”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” “the end product is incredibly stilted, missing in-jokes, has misnamed items and ruins like half the puns and wordplay in the game”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” “Screenshots of the translated game do give an impression of edited - or even, at times, unedited - machine translation.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” - Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English”
- Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English”
Relies on AI translation
“Amazing technical achievement, and also a very unfortunate situation with the reliance on AI translation”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English” “It's precisely why I don't think this was a good use of AI at all.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Segagaga Has Been Translated into English”
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The four most recommended other video games, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Helldivers 2 | 50 | 34 | 60% | 10 | 1.9 yrs3 owners | — |
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| SegagagaThis page | 7 | 4 | 64% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the end product is incredibly stilted, missing in-jokes, has misnamed items and ruins like half the puns and wordplay in the game”
“according to contributors like 645 it’s a bad machine translation”
“So excited for this - have been dying to play it for at least a decade.”
“such a lazy followthru given the technical hurdles overcome wrt the font tech”
“This is absolutely amazing and I can't wait to deep dive on this.”
“Screenshots of the translated game do give an impression of edited - or even, at times, unedited - machine translation.”
“the script seems stiff and overly formal, much like how direct machine translation of Japanese text reads”
“It's precisely why I don't think this was a good use of AI at all.”
“Amazing technical achievement, and also a very unfortunate situation with the reliance on AI translation”
“This is the first time Dreamcast owners can play it in a more understandable way”
“this game is so weird I doubt the translation holds a candle to the original”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.