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
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:…
Community
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:…