Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: NBA Jam Tournament Edition, NBA Jam Extreme – Princess Crown #BestOfSaturn – Princess Maker…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In a previous edition, I wrote about how some Saturn games censor their high score screens. If you try to put your initials in as XXX or SEX, they’ll replace…
Editorial
The Cat Came Back… Few Saturn homebrew projects have had quite the evolution of 7Shades’ CubeCat. What began as a modest experiment by a programmer learning his way around Saturn…
News
A fan is hacking an old English translation into the Saturn version of daughter-raising simulator Princess Maker 2. Washbear posted a thread on SegaXtreme last week showing off her progress…
Best Of Saturn
Stylized 2D graphics and multi-arc storyline lovers, step right up to Princess Crown, a late 1997 Atlus side-scrolling action game laden with RPG elements. Players take on the role of…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Bust-A-Move 3 – Ninpen Manmaru #BestOfSaturn – Version 2.0 of Willy Wombat English Improvement…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The two Saturn NBA Jam games all have lots of “secret” stuff — cheat codes, bonus teams, extra players. Most of these things were documented in magazines and online in…
News
At last, a translator is on board the effort to turn Grandia: Digital Museum’s script into English, according to the project lead. TrekkiesUnite118 posted Wednesday on SegaXtreme that Wiredcrackpot has…
News
This morning, version 2.0 of Exxistance’s Willy Wombat English Improvement patch went live. This patch is markedly more ambitious than its version 1.0 predecessor, going well beyond English menus. Exxistance’s…
Best Of Saturn
Ninpen Manmaru originated as a manga series that spawned an anime and, eventually, a Saturn-exclusive 3D platformer developed by Tam Tam and published by Enix in 1997. In the game,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Shadows of the Tusk – Baroque #BestOfSaturn – Saturn News Roundup: Cinepak PandaMonium Video,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, we’re examining Bust-A-Move 3 (a.k.a. Puzzle Bobble 3), the puzzle game from Taito. While looking through this game’s data, some strings that seem to be part of…
News
Earlier this week, Exxistance dropped a surprise English translation patch for the SEGA AGES port of the sprite scaling arcade racer Power Drift over on his GitHub. Released in 1998…
News
Once again, prolific fan translator Exxistance releases another English fan translation in his “Summer of Saturn” series. Today, he translated the remaining Japanese text on Saturn fighter Dead or Alive….
News
The Saturn scene never takes a break, and neither can SHIRO!’s coverage of it. Get caught up on this week’s Saturn news with this roundup. Shadowmask converts PandaMonium video to…
Best Of Saturn
Sting’s 1998 Japanese Saturn release, Baroque, is a 3D, first-person perspective roguelike action game. Inflicted with amnesia, you begin in a darkly post-apocalyptic world whose inhabitants’ bodies suffer mutations representing…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Lupin the 3rd: Sage of the Pyramid – Dark Seed #BestOfSaturn – Two More…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition we’re examining Shadows of the Tusk, the 1998 deck-building game from Digital Media Lab and Hudson Soft. It was originally released in Japan, but these days you…
News
Released this morning by KoolFiller over on Segaxtreme, a full English translation is now available for the straight to home consoles hot-blooded family beat ’em up Nekketsu Oyako. A December…
News
A pair of new quality-of-life patches – one for the Crime Patrol prototype and the other for Policenauts – were released on SegaXtreme earlier this week by romhacker privateye. Released…
News
New English fan translation patches for lesser-known titles Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth (referred to just as Tama moving forward) and Hissatsu! are now available for us all to…
Best Of Saturn
A mid-1995 Japan-only port of the PC original, the psychological horror Dark Seed is a point and click adventure in the style of H.R. Giger. You’ve just bought an old…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Battle Garegga – PandaMonium Reviews Every Entry to the 2026 SegaXtreme Saturn Homebrew Showcase…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Lupin the 3rd: Sage of the Pyramid, the 1998 game based on the Lupin III manga / anime has some bonus elements that can be unlocked if…
News
Cyber Doll Back in July 2025, fan translator Exxistance began work on the cyberpunk RPG Cyber Doll on the Saturn with translator Wiredcrackpot: While there hasn’t been an open fan…
Community
The July 2026 SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Community Challenge has ended, with three participants emerging victorious. SEGA AGES Memorial Selection Vol. 1 saw 57 high scores submitted from eight participants across…
News
A homebrew developer is working on porting SCUMM, the engine behind many classic point-and-click adventure games on the PC, to the Saturn. Happy-Ferret gave an update Thursday on the Saturn…
Best Of Saturn
Who doesn’t love Cotton, the cutest teenage witch this side of the Pumpkin Kingdom? When Princess Appli steals — then loses — the powerful Water Willow candy, Cotton must embark…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Yaba Sanshiro Improves Emulation Accuracy on Android, Windows – Dragon Ball Z: The Legend #BestOfSaturn – Culdcept…
PandaMonium Reviews
Hey all, PandaMonium here. I have finally finished my annual review of the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn Homebrew entries for the 2026 season. Sorry it took so long. There is not…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
It’s well known that Battle Garegga, the innovative shoot-em-up from Eighting/Raizing, recognizes a cheat code. Here’s how GameFAQs describes it: Access a Mahou Daisakusen character: At the title screen press…
Community
9/4/2026 Update:In this action packed week for the online Daytona USA SHIRO! Tournament, we first saw PandaMonium zoom zoom past LordoftheMikMac in the East with a 5-0 win for their…
News
Back in June 2001, with the popularity of the Magic: The Gathering property exploding the ’90s and continuing its domination in the 2000s despite the rise of other games such…
Editorial
Sonic, the brilliant tactician. In honor of Sonic’s 35th Anniversary, the SegaXtreme Games of the Month for June and July 2026 are the Sonic Storybook series. At the conclusion of…
News
Culdcept the First, a modern worldwide re-release of Japan-exclusive Saturn game Culdcept, launched today on PC via Steam. The game’s full price is US$29.99, although there’s a 10% launch discount…