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FULLSET put up pre-orders today for their two indie titles, shoot-em-up Project Neon and multiplayer game Overserved, for not only Neo Geo but also SEGA Saturn and Dreamcast! HERE WE…
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The cheat sites have had codes listed for MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat since the Clinton administration. But do they have everything? I spent an unreasonable amount of time with…
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Culdcept the First’s Western publisher provided new details Thursday in an English trailer that announced release dates and open preorders for the game’s console versions. Clear River Games’ trailer says…
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Genesis, not Mega Drive. This game is 100% ‘Murican. This is a cross post of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. The…
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The SHIRO! community will dust off their Arcade Racers — and accompanying securing devices — in anticipation of the upcoming Community Challenge. Starting May 1 and running the entirety of…
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My latest video is finally done. Digging for Isix: A Digital Pictures History plunges into the story of this well-known full motion video company. This project originally started as a…
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Last month, sharp-eyed Saturn fan Cerbero spotted an auction listing for a CD labeled Pyramid: Sega Saturn (3-26-97). It’s always intriguing when a build of an unreleased game surfaces. But…
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We’ve been blessed with dozens of Saturn translations over recent years, but today we give a nod to one of the trailblazers: the 2016 fan translation of Hideo Kojima’s Policenauts….
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Layer Section II– Nine-Player Chaos on First NetLink Night– Shining Force 3 #BestOfSaturn– Multiplayer Indie…
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Sega unveiled a new initiative this morning to celebrate the anniversaries of some of its properties, including several that started life on the Saturn. Sega launched a website and a…
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The development team at FULLSET revealed gameplay images and footage of their in-progress “battle arena” game Overserved: Food Fighters this week — and announced that it’s set to release this…
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Camelot Software Planning unleashed the massively ambitious Shining Force 3 trilogy in Japan over a 12-month span starting December 1997. The trilogy comprises three SRPG “scenarios” featuring 30+ battles apiece,…
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SHIRO!’s first scheduled NetLink Night last Friday yielded a lot of fun — and a lot of chaos. At one point, nine players on nine Saturn consoles across two continents…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Mighty Hits– SegaXtreme Homebrew Showcase Deadline Just Four Weeks Away– Sakura Wars 2 #BestOfSaturn– Saturn…
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Today we’re looking at Layer Section II, also known as RayStorm. The Saturn port came out in Japan in 1997, but it wasn’t released in North America or Europe (the…
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Hi everyone! We’ve got a new perk for all paid Patreon members: a digital magazine using all the stories we posted to the website in March! It’s attached to this…
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Exxistance does it again and releases a fan translation based on the anime and manga series Ninku. The fighting game follows the frog-looking character Fūsuke, who is immensely powerful and…
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An old project to translate Saturn strategy RPG Langrisser III into English is being revived this month — by two people in unrelated, simultaneous efforts. What’s more, neither person originally…
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The Sega Saturn homebrew and translation scene is hoppin’ this time of year. From new games to updates to translation patches and utilities, let’s take a look at some of…
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Following the mega-success of the first game, SEGA and Red Company unleashed Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die on Japanese Saturn players in April 1998. Set two years after…
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It’s crunch time, Saturn developers: The deadline is just four weeks away for the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. That deadline is May 11, specifically — the 31st…
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Mighty Hits is a shooting gallery game made for light guns. It was developed and published by the Japanese company Altron for Saturn and PlayStation in 1996. An enhanced Special…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Virtual Casino– Dreamcast VCD Player DreamMovie Cracked, Available for All– Jinzou Ningen Hakaider, Scud: The…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Quake v0.819 – Script Editing Tool Aids Magic School Lunar Fan Translation– EMIT Vol. 1:…
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A hacker new to the Saturn scene released a patch Tuesday that translates Kyuutenkai, also known as Fantastic Pinball, into English. ShivaSaturn posted a thread on SegaXtreme talking about their…
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It has been a year since SHIRO! last covered Paul Met and Meduza Team’s development of codes to unlock the framerate in select Sega Saturn titles, and they have been…
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Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen) was a fall 1996 release in Japan, and is best described as a visual novel, dating sim, and strategy game mashed up into one. Set in…
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Two more Saturn light-gun compatible games, Jinzou Ningen Hakaider: Last Judgement (localized as Mechanical Violator Hakaider: Last Judgement) and Scud: The Disposable Assassin, are now playable free of screen flashes…
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Download DreamMovie (UNLOCKED) here:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/DreamMovie-UNLOCKED After 25 years of being locked away behind some of the most insane software/hardware protection I’ve ever seen for a $25 unlicensed console accessory, DreamMovie for the SEGA Dreamcast has…
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The Virtual Casino Community Challenge here at SHIRO! wrapped up the other day. Some of its prizes were reserved for people who successfully got to the staff credits: SHIRO! Virtual…
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It is time for the ninth SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament, so get ready to get down with some Puyo Puyo Sun For SEGANET! Sign-ups are now live over on…
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Back on March 28, CLAMP’s BlueSky account released more details about the upcoming Magic Knight Rayearth anime: 【ニュース】TVアニメ『魔法騎士レイアース』最新情報が解禁●放送枠決定2026年10月より、毎週水曜よる11：45～テレビ朝日系全国ネット“IMAnimation W”枠 ※一部地域を除く●メインキャスト発表獅堂光:佐倉綾音／龍咲海：大久保瑠美／鳳凰寺風：高橋李依●キービジュアル、ティザーPV 公開●CLAMP 描きおろしイラストとメッセージ 公開●公式Tiktok開設#CLAMP#魔法騎士レイアース#MagicKnightRayearth— CLAMP公式 (@clamp-official.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T08:06:36.901Z Translation: [News]Latest Information Revealed…
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Kicking off at the end of November last year, the eighth SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament in SEGA Worldwide Soccer ’98 has come sliding to an end! The winner of…
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The SHIRO! community spent the last month losing countless digital dollars to bunny-clad women in Natsume’s “Serious Fun” Virtual Casino. Now that April has arrived, it is time for these…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: What You Can’t Say in a Saturn Game– Prisoner of Ice #BestOfSaturn– Indie Developer Porting…