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
Signups are now live for the Daytona USA SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online NetLink/Xband Tournament at the #online_tournaments chat on the SHIRO! Discord. We will continue doing three separate eight-player brackets…
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…
Best Of Saturn
Dragon Ball Z: The Legend punched Japanese Saturns in mid-1996, followed by a limited European kick in December of the same year… and by limited, we mean France, Spain, and…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Battle Athletes – Sega Saturn Memories Vol. III: To Trade or Not to Trade…
News
A series of updates have come to Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro over the last two weeks to bring its performance closer to real hardware on both Android devices and Windows….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
If you examine the game data for the Saturn version of Sega Touring Car Championship, the arcade racing game from AM Annex, you’ll find some interesting strings: 0603e598: SEGARALLY_0 0603e5a4:…
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What began three months ago at the start of May, the ninth SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament, Puyo Puyo Sun For Sega Networks, ended earlier this week with TheNotoriousVPD taking…
News
A not-so-surprise Saturn launch, Western boxarts for unreleased Capcom games and a look into Bernie Stolar’s 1998 console strategy — these are just a few of the interesting tidbits that…
News
An all-new look at the early years of E3 is being shown to the world courtesy of the Video Game History Foundation. This includes several new media kits, promotional material…
Best Of Saturn
When the world was young and all things were new, at the dawn of industrial age, there lived a boy named Justin. Brimming with exuberance and a zeal to explore,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Batman Forever: The Arcade Game – Daisuki, Death Crimson Receive Quality-of-Life Patches – Lunar…
Editorial
This is a continuation of a series whose previous entry was in February this year — you can read that here — and whose first entry was in 2024 — you…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The Battle Athletes franchise has produced multiple anime series, a manga, and three video games. This article is about the 1996 Saturn game from publisher Increment P. The game is…
News
This week saw the release of version 0.2.4 of the Saturn TON Editor by developer Frogbull. The most recent updates have included UI improvements, tooltips and some user-requested features by…
Best Of Saturn
Hot on the heels of 1997’s Grandia, the remake of the 1994 SEGA CD / Mega CD hit Lunar 2: Eternal Blue launched on the Saturn in 1998. Set a…
News
Two new quality-of-life patches by romhacker privateye dropped on SegaXtreme earlier this month, this time for Daisuki and Death Crimson. Released patches for Death Crimson and Daisuki on Saturn that:…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Lunar: Silver Star Story #BestOfSaturn – SegaXtreme Showcase Produces Digital Magazine, Announces Contest Winners – SegaXtreme Showcase…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, we’re looking at the Saturn version of Batman Forever: The Arcade Game. This was a console port of Acclaim’s and Iguana’s 1996 ST-V arcade title. Some cheat…
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Earlier this week, SEGARPGFAN revealed his latest Saturn online project in development, a ghost car portal website for Sega Touring Car Championship! This site connects directly to SEGA Saturn’s Netlink…
News
Judging is over for the contest portion of the SegaXtreme Showcase, and so is the mystery surrounding its secret translation patch entry — it’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, as revealed…
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The SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Showcase reached its climax last night with the release of a digital magazine highlighting all 31 entries paired with announcing the contest winners. Showcase organizer Emerald…
Best Of Saturn
Over the next three weeks, we will be taking a look at GameArts’ triumvirate of their biggest Saturn titles, kicking things off with Lunar: Silver Star Story! A remake of…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Alone in the Dark 2 – Shadows of Peakwater Rolls a D20 in SegaXtreme…
News
An unprecedented entry was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase this year: Coup, a homebrew game that not only features six-player simultaneous online play but also crossplay with a Web version….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, we’re covering the Saturn version of Command & Conquer. This 1996 port of the influential PC game has some secrets hiding in its game data: A couple…
News
This week, we’ve gotten a few pieces of news that are notable to Saturn fans, from an infamous dating sim is getting a remake, to a patch enabling a hidden…
Best Of Saturn
A 17-year-old named Angie Hart is found dead at the foot of the planetarium in Chicago, and it’s up to detective J.B. Harold — YOU — to solve this murder…
Community
Watch the trailer for this month’s community challenge: This July we’re bringing the arcade home with the seventh volume of the Saturn’s SEGA AGES games, Memorial Selection Vol. 1! That’s…
News
A small but promising homebrew game was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase last month: Fists of Ouchie, a 2D versus fighting game. It somewhat resembles Super Smash Bros. — its…
News
An in-progress isometric RPG was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase last month called Shadows of Peakwater. It’s a 2D turn-based game being developed by 500zorkmids, who said they were inspired…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The cheat sites list a bogus “Debug menu” code for Alone in the Dark 2. I went looking for the real code in the game data —…