RetroArch’s Beetle Saturn core came to Steam this week. It was added as downloadable content to the main RetroArch release on Steam. Both are free.
Beetle Saturn is the Mednafen emulator ported to RetroArch’s Libretro platform, which runs a variety of retro console emulators within its framework.
It comes less than two weeks after the standalone RetroArch’s Beetle Saturn got its first update in years, bringing it to feature parity with version 1.29 of Mednafen.
Playing Beetle Saturn on Steam as opposed to the standlone release brings a few advantages — easy access to remote play and Steam input configuration, cloud sync for saves, and automatic updates for RetroArch and the Saturn core.
Danthrax is a contributor to the Shiro Media Group, writing stories for the website when Saturn news breaks. While he was a Sega Genesis kid in the ’90s, he didn’t get a Saturn until 2018. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the console’s library as well as the fan translation and homebrew scene. He contributed heavily to the Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS fan localizations, and has helped as an editor on several other Saturn and Dreamcast fan projects such as Cotton 2, Rainbow Cotton and Sakura Wars Columns 2.
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