Shining Force 3 #BestOfSaturn
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EMIT Vol. 1: Lost Child of Time is the first of a trilogy of EMIT games from Koei, all debuting within the span of roughly a month. Designed to teach…
The programmer behind the Magic School Lunar fan translation patch released a meaty blog post Friday giving fans of the Lunar franchise, and Saturn RPGs, a look behind the scenes…
A new “65% complete” version of Quake for Saturn was recently made available by Saturn enthusiast vbt. I know what you’re wondering: does it have any cheat codes? The answer…
A group of SegaXtreme community members banded together to buy and dump a pair of Saturn prototypes: one of Quake, and one of Fantastep. VBT made a thread at 7:24…
Back in January 2023, Slinga released multiplayer mayhem onto Saturn in the form of Disasteroids, a 12-player Asteroids clone submitted to the 28th Anniversary Game Competition. One of many in…
Apologies for the poor audio and technical difficulties! Dave’s laptop shit the bed right before the show, so this was streamed via Dave & Dan on their phones… Yikes! Anyway,…
Over the weekend a new “Willy Wombat English Advancement Patch” was shared in a Romhacking.net forum post that, when used in conjunction with last year’s “English Improvement Patch,” translates perhaps…
[Editor’s note: This story was updated March 29 to add Sascha’s name, clarify that Project Neon does not use WiFi for online multiplayer, add details about the cartridge prototype’s expected…
Point and click adventures were all the rage for PC gamers in the ’90s, but they never translated well to home consoles… but no one told Japan, as Saturn gamers…
I previously wrote this: When doing reverse engineering, it’s good to have a starting place — a piece of code that does something that you understand. That’s why I search…
An update today for the MiSTer FPGA’s Saturn core improves the performance of many 3D fighting games when using just one memory module. Doing so has stretched the MiSTer’s hardware…