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GAME TRANSLATE · SNES · ENGLISH PATCH v1.0
Haou Taikei Ryuu Knight
Lord of Paladin in English
Bandai’s 1994 Super Famicom action RPG based on the Ryu Knight anime, playable in English from the Great Sage Naji’s opening speech to the last bout of the Grand Tournament. Every line of the script, every menu and every item description is translated, in a new, easy-to-read English font.
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About the game
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Haou Taikei Ryuu Knight: Lord of Paladin is the Super Famicom game of Haou Taikei Ryuu Knight, Sunrise’s 1994 anime about Adeu Waltham, a knight-in-training who dreams of becoming the Lightspeed Paladin. The game opens with the Great Sage Naji turning up out of nowhere and handing Adeu a gift: Zephyr, a Ryu Knight of his very own.
From there it’s a free-roaming action RPG across the twelve areas of Earthtia, the Realm of the Sword. You fight on foot in real time, summon Zephyr with SELECT for the big battles, and pick up Paffy, Izumi and Sarutobi on the way to the Grand Tournament at Earth’s Blade. Outlaw towns, a sunken lake town, a snowbound village of beasts, a goblin mine and a flying whale castle stand in between, and so do Delias, the fiend Hellreet and the Black Knight Galden.
Screenshots
What’s translated
New in this patch
A bold English font
The game’s text box now uses a clear, variable-width English font, so a line fits about 33 letters. Lines break at natural points in each sentence, and nothing was cut short to fit the box.
English rename screen
Rename your party from System → Rename with an English keyboard (upper case, lower case and symbols, up to 8 letters). Dialogue uses the new names everywhere.
Tidy menus
Menu entries line up in neat columns, and ON / OFF and Yes / No are written as words instead of spaced-out letters.
A complete guide
Our walkthrough uses the same names as the patch, with annotated maps of 235 areas, every chest, every shop price and the condition for the full ending.
Controls
| BUTTON | WHAT IT DOES |
|---|---|
| A | Attack, talk, open a chest (stand on it) |
| B | Jump |
| X | Menu: System, Status, World Map, Exit |
| Y | Item bar |
| SELECT | Summon or dismiss Zephyr (where a Ryu is allowed) |
| L R | Swap the party leader |
How to patch
- Get a clean Japanese ROM. You need your own dump of Haou Taikei Ryuu Knight: Lord of Paladin (Japan) (Rev 1): 1,572,864 bytes (1.5 MB), no copier header. Check it before patching:
CRC32 2740560BSHA-1 9c063ee178a8b142a10bc7fbfc3661fa6f4278c5
If the file is 1,573,376 bytes it has a 512-byte header; remove it first (Rom Patcher JS can do this for you). The first cartridge release (Rev 0) has a different checksum and won’t work. We can’t share ROMs, so please don’t ask. - Download and unzip the patch. Inside is
Haou Taikei Ryuu Knight - Lord of Paladin (English) v1.0.bpsand a readme. - Apply the BPS. The easiest way is Rom Patcher JS in your browser: choose the ROM, choose the .bps, click Apply patch. On desktop you can also use Floating IPS (Flips).
- Check the result. The patched ROM is 2 MB (expanded to make room for the English text):
CRC32 55CC0F32SHA-1 1a702a88b65235b3556445d526199f1e68010b0f - Play. Tested in Snes9x. The patched game is a normal 2 MB LoROM, so other accurate emulators and flash carts should run it too, but we haven’t tested them yet.
Start a new game. Saves from the Japanese version store names in Japanese and will show garbled names in the English patch.
Known issues
- The title logo is the original Japanese one.
- The YES / NO in the shop window is a picture in the original and stays as it was.
- Only tested in Snes9x so far. If it misbehaves in another emulator or on hardware, please tell us which one.
Found a typo or a line that reads oddly? Leave a comment below with where it happened (a screenshot helps) and it’ll be fixed.
Guides for this game
We also wrote a full English guide that uses the same names as the patch:
- Complete walkthrough: all 12 episodes and the tournament, with maps, chests and shops
- Missables: the few things you can lose for good
- Equipment & smiths: how smiths upgrade your gear, prices and armor stats
- Secrets & hidden mechanics: the full ending, World Map fast travel, hidden chests
FAQ
Is the translation complete?
Yes. Every line of dialogue, every menu and every item description is in English, from the opening to the ending. Only the title logo is still in Japanese.
Is there more than one ending?
Yes. Win all five bouts of the Grand Tournament, dealing clearly more damage than you take, and you get the full ending. The secrets page has the exact rule.
Why is the patched ROM bigger than the original?
English takes more space than Japanese, so the ROM is expanded from 1.5 MB to 2 MB to hold the new text and font.
My emulator shows a black screen or garbage.
Check the patched ROM against the CRC32 above. If it doesn’t match, your original ROM was not the clean Rev 1 version or still had a header.
Can I upload the patch to another site?
Not without permission. Please share the link to this page instead, so everyone gets the latest version. If you’d like to host or mirror it, email gametranslate.us@gmail.com. Pre-patched ROMs must never be shared: the game itself still belongs to its owners.
Sharing & redistribution
⚠️ Please don’t re-upload this patch
This patch took months of translation and ROM hacking. To keep one up-to-date, safe copy for everyone:
- Do not upload the patch file (or a pre-patched ROM) to any other website, file host, forum, Discord server or ROM site without written permission from Game Translate.
- Do link to this page instead. Sharing the link is always welcome, and it means people get the latest version and the install guide.
- Don’t sell the patch, put it behind a paywall, or bundle it with ROMs, repro carts or any paid product.
- Videos, streams and let’s plays are welcome. A link back to this page in the description is appreciated.
Want to host or mirror it, or include it in a collection? Just ask at gametranslate.us@gmail.com. We usually say yes.
Credits
Translation, ROM hacking & tools: belfallen (Game Translate)
English font: from our Rejoice translation
Original game: © 1994 Bandai / Japan Art Media. Haou Taikei Ryuu Knight © Takehiko Ito / Shueisha, Sotsu Agency, Sunrise
v1.0 · October 11, 2026 · first public release
Enjoying Ryuu Knight in English? This patch is free and always will be. If it let you finally play it, a coffee helps fund the next translation.
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NikoKaro Bug HunterRegular
Kudos, chief, on yet another SNES jewel translated into english. Werent you already busy with SRW-F? Hmm… Maybe you found time for this, during your coffee breaks…🙂 Keep up the great work!
Like others, I’ve tried repeatedly to download tour patch from your link, but it seems impossible due to the constant barrage of pop-ups, at least on a smartphone. 🤷
Game Translate Author
Haha, thanks a lot, my friend! 😄
Actually, I’ve already finished SRW F! I just haven’t released it yet because I still feel the translation could be better. It’s fully translated, but I want to give it another polishing pass before putting it out there.
So, while taking a little break from SRW F, I decided to work on this game instead. Interestingly, it was made by the same development team behind *Rejoice – Aretha Oukoku no Kanata*, which I’d already translated. The two games share quite a lot of similarities in their engines and internal structures, so I was able to reuse much of the technical work I’d already done for Rejoice. That made the whole process go surprisingly fast!
And thanks for letting me know about the download issue. I’ll take a look at the link and see what I can do about those annoying pop-ups, especially for mobile users.
Thanks again for the support!
NikoKaro Bug HunterRegular
@Game Translate I managed to download it eventually. The thing is, the page with the download link is easily confused with the ad pages, and the actual link appears way down at the bottom.
I’ve thoroughly tested SRW-R, and the translation is really excellent. If you were to add the english title graphics as well, that would be the icing on the cake.
Just a heads-up: a beta patch for *Super Tokusatsu Taisen 2001* (PSX) was released a few days ago (in case you were thinking of translating it) and the translation is already great. The quality of the AI has improved by leaps and bounds lately. But for now, it’s only available on Discord.