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A colorful Saturn 2D fighter is more accessible for English-speaking audiences thanks to a new patch from Saturn community regular Exxistance. “My small entry is a partial English menu translation…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Iron Storm: Operation Files – Saturn Returns to Games Done Quick With Mr. Bones…
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Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidou Retsuden, the Samurai Spirits RPG, was released for Neo Geo CD, Saturn, and PlayStation in 1997. Each version has exclusive bonus content. Per Wikipedia: Neo Geo…
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It seems 31 is the Saturn’s lucky number this year — not only is the West celebrating the console’s release here 31 years ago, but the SegaXtreme Showcase features 31…
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Long-term Saturn developer slinga submitted a 3.7.0 Alpha build of their Save Game Copier into the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. The SHIRO! announcement of this year’s showcase…
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Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators is bouncing from the Saturn onto modern platforms, its publisher announced Wednesday. BeXide — pronounced “B-Side” — said it’s porting the 1995 Saturn pinball game to…
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The new cheat code browser. Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro was updated Sunday for the first time in more than a year, bringing graphical improvements that came to the Android version…
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Battle Arena Toshinden Remix, Virtua Fighter Remix… how about Yumimi Mix Remix? Yumimi Mix is a 1993 Game Arts collaboration with manga artist Izumi Takemoto, releasing exclusively for the Japanese…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Maximum Surge: The Completed and Canceled FMV Game– Under the Microscope: Virtual Golf– Fafling Optimizes Saturn Doom Even…
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The spotlight will shine on Mr. Bones this July, but not while surrounded by DaGoulian’s undead army — instead, it’ll be an audience cheering on a pair of speedrunners at…
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In this edition, I’m examining World Advanced Daisenryaku: Sakusen File for Saturn. It’s a sequel to Iron Storm that was released exclusively in Japan in 1996. It’s difficult to play…
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A fan has localized into English the Japan-only sequel to Sega Saturn World War II strategy game Iron Storm. Not only that, he made a patch to correct the Working…
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Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro pushed a major update today for Android, changing the way it renders graphics to improve accuracy and increase the number of games compatible on it….
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On May 9, Emerald Nova and 7Shades took the stage at MegaCon 2026 in Orlando, Fla., to share their expertise on homebrew retro game development, specifically focusing on the Sega…
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Two English activation patches were posted to SegaXtreme earlier this week that make it even easier for non-Japanese-speaking Saturn fans to enjoy the Saturn games Battle Garegga and Bubble Symphony…
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We’re back with a new issue of SHIRO! Monthly: a digital magazine using all the stories we posted to the website in April! It’s attached to this Patreon post for…
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Editor’s note: This story uses info and content from Digging for Isix, the latest video by SHIRO!’s own PandaMonium. He acquired archival footage, documents and interviews going over what led up…
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After the 1996 release of the mega-successful Saturn Bomberman, Hudson Soft crafted a sequel: 1997’s Saturn Bomberman Fight! For the first time in the series, the 2D levels are replaced…
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Homebrew developer Fafling’s back with a new version of his optimization patch for Saturn’s Doom port, now making some levels run at a frame rate 2½ times faster than the…
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Hey, didn’t I already cover this game? Yes, but I missed some things in the first article. I’m taking a mulligan. As I mentioned last time: Like Actua Golf, this…
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Editor’s note: This story uses info and content from the latest video from SHIRO!’s own PandaMonium. He got access to builds of Maximum Surge for the video Digging for Isix:…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat– Overserved, Project Neon Pre-Orders Open for Saturn, Dreamcast!– Kingdom Grand…
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If you’ve gone to our site in the last few days, you may have noticed a new tab in our menu bar: After much demand for a more permanent place…
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The Saturn MiSTer core’s most requested feature is finally here: the FPGA device’s LEDs now mimic an actual Saturn’s power and disc read lights. OK, maybe that isn’t the most…
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Two more light-gun-compatible games, Chaos Control and Die Hard Trilogy, have received quality-of-life patches thanks to privateye. Released patches for Chaos Control and Die Hard Trilogy on Saturn that :…
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In our quest to highlight Saturn fan translations this year, it’s also worth mentioning the handful of English activation patches available. Some Japanese games have English text baked right in,…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Policenauts #BestOfSaturn– Prototype of Unknown, Unreleased Saturn Game ‘Pyramid’ Preserved– PandaMonium’s ‘Digging for Isix’ Premieres May 9– The…
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[Editor’s note:] After this article was published, developers at FULLSET have confirmed effort is underway to convert the existing Joengine libraries that contain SEGA code to use the open source…
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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….