Puyo Puyo

By RadioTails

Posted by RadioTails Jul 06, 2026 Updated 3 days ago

Game Name Puyo Puyo

Platform SEGA Genesis

Genre Puzzle

Language English

Status Complete

Version 1.1

Release Date 2025-03-01

Downloads 2045

Description

This is a complete English translation for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis version of Puyo Puyo (ぷよぷよ). Please note that the American spelling and grammar have been used for this translation.

The spoken dialog from the STORY MODE has been translated by human beings (no sloppy AI was used) to maintain the original humorous tone when possible. Where Japanese jokes/slang are used, these have been localized to make more sense in English.

The three Japanese voice clips have not been changed in order to preserve the original voice clips from the original game.

While there is an "official" English release of the original Arcade version of Puyo Puyo, the translation in that version is not very accurate. For this reason, the story script from that version was not used, but instead translated from scratch.

Hashes

Filename: Puyo Puyo (Japan).md
CRC32: 7f26614e
SHA-1: 02656b5707cf9452d4cf48378ffd3a95dc84e9c5
Verified: Sega - Mega Drive - Genesis v.20260617-060303 (No-Intro)

Staff Credits

Team Leader: - RadioTails
Translators: - Lost in Localization - SnowyAria
Programmers: - RadioTails - AdolescentSeagull - Nasina - TomboyDragon - Ralakimus
Graphic Editors: - E-122-Psi - Aburtos - Nik Pi - Kamekku14
Software Engineers: - YY - AamirM - Lab 313 - Exodus
Special Thanks: - Poppin'★Neni

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Reviews

5 (2)

PoyoPoyo1985 2026-07-08

Pretty rad and does what it says well!

I'm pretty big fan of the Puyo Puyo games. So this is win in my book! But anyhow the translation work is great and it's nice to be able understand what Arle and the various enemies when they are talking! You guys should try to translate Puyo Puyo 2! No issues, so as expected 5/5 stars for you guys!

Adrian Gauna 2025-03-08

This Is A Huge Accomplishment And Helps Introduce The Series To More Western Audiences

Okay i've played through the hack from start to finish and am very pleased with all the in-game dialogue being changed to English and being able to finally understand what the characters are talking about before battle. The game's story makes almost no sense and the characters that Arle encounters are almost put in at random from different cultures and myths, but many Japanese games of this era tend to continue in a way that makes no sense at all and back in the day not originally being available for a Western audience means these games can get away with not making any sense at all.

Having all the language translated makes the game a lot more enjoyable to play as the story, dialogue and the navigation becomes much more easier to understand and enjoy. I can only encourage you brilliant modders to try and translate the second Puyo Puyo game as that one is buried in deeper Japanese text. Just trying to change the rules of the game in the options menu is a real gamble as you don't know what you're doing? But that's for another day.

Thank you RadioTails and crew! A ROM hack very much welcomed in the community. 5 out of 5 stars.

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Last comments

kazoo52 2026-07-10

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! One question though—the RHP page says it's v1.1 but the game title screen shows v1.0. Which is it?

Retro Craze 2025-04-05

Awesome!

AudreyStrategy 2025-04-05

Rad

K2Retro2nd 2025-04-05

Very great job on this translation but I have one request. Can you also make this compatible with the MSU-MD and MD+ hacks of Puyo Puyo in an update? I want to play this translation hack with the enhanced audio.