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Saturn MiSTer Core Optimizations Overcome Chock-Full FPGA
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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Chaos Control, Die Hard Trilogy Get Light-Gun Quality-of-Life Treatment
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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Kingdom Grand Prix #BestOfSaturn
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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LIVE SHOW: MAY 01 2026 – Lost Unreleased Game Found! | NEW PANDAMONIUM VIDEO
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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Overserved, Project Neon Pre-Orders Open for Saturn, Dreamcast!
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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Under the Microscope: MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat
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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New Western Launch Details for Culdcept the First: Saturn Tribute
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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SegaXtreme Game of the Month for April 2026: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
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 Takes Pole Position This May
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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PandaMonium’s ‘Digging for Isix’ Premieres May 9
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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Prototype of Unknown, Unreleased Saturn Game ‘Pyramid’ Preserved
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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Policenauts #BestOfSaturn
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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LIVE SHOW: APRIL 24 2026 – SEGA Universe | Overserved Online Neo Geo Port to Saturn!
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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Saturn IPs Featured in ‘Sega Universe’ Initiative
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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Multiplayer Indie ‘Overserved’ Coming to Saturn this November
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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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,…
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Nine-Player Chaos on First NetLink Night
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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LIVE SHOW: APRIL 17 2026 – Langrisser III Translation | Ninku Fan Translation | Sakura Wars 2 Update
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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Under the Microscope: Layer Section II
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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SHIRO! Monthly: A New Digital Magazine
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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Saturn Fighter Ninku Gets a Fan Translation!
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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Langrisser III Translation Project Revived — By Two People at Once
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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Saturn News Roundup: Sakura Wars 2 Translation, Rhea/Phoebe Organizer, SegaXtreme Entries Roll In
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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Sakura Wars 2 #BestOfSaturn
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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SegaXtreme Homebrew Showcase Deadline Just Four Weeks Away
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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Under the Microscope: Mighty Hits
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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LIVE SHOW: APRIL 10 2026 – Kyuutenkai Translation | Codes Boost FPS on Saturn
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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LIVE SHOW: APRIL 04 2026 – BACK FROM JAPAN | Magic School Lunar & MORE!
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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Patch Translates Kyuutenkai/Fantastic Pinball into English
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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More Codes Boost FPS in Sega Saturn Games
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 #BestOfSaturn
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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Jinzou Ningen Hakaider, Scud: The Disposable Assassin Receive Quality-of-Life Patches
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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Dreamcast VCD Player DreamMovie Cracked, Available for All
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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Under the Microscope: Virtual Casino
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…