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Another Sega Saturn game is getting re-released on modern platforms — and this time, it’s bundled with a new entry in its series. Taito announced Tuesday that Bubble Bobble: Sugar…
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The video game industry descended upon Cologne, Germany, last weekend for Gamescom 2025, and the Sega Saturn was represented well thanks to fans running the SegAddiction booth. Those fans, who…
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The source code for the Saturn version of Lobotomy Software’s first-person shooter engine was uploaded to GitHub and the Internet Archive last Saturday. Called the SlaveDriver engine, it powered three…
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The Saturn MiSTer core has passed all currently known tests, according to one of the people who works on it, representing how closely it replicates the functionality of an original…
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The Android version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro now supports RetroAchievements, the service’s community manager announced Saturday. “We have an exciting new partnership to announce to you!” said the community…
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The Sega Saturn had a presence at Retrocon last weekend, with attendees of the São Paulo, Brazil, gaming convention getting the chance to see a prototype console as well as an…
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Here’s a quick look at some of the things the Saturn community has been talking about this week. Retro Achievements coming to Yaba Sanshiro Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto posted on social…
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The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore today. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being…
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There have never been as many Saturn fan translation patches in progress as there are now. Considering that, it can be hard to keep track of their progress. You can…
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Time Warner’s recreation of Virtua Racing on the Saturn is known for its great music, but it’s notoriously silent while replaying a completed race. It’s not supposed to be, though….
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Two more Saturn games are available on modern platforms after City Connection released Farland Saga 1 and 2 yesterday. Unfortunately, the publisher made no effort to localize either game, which…
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Leaderboards have been added to the Android and iOS versions of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro, giving players a way to compare their fastest times in a pair of games via…
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The Dragon Ball homebrew game that was revealed last month has made more progress, according to an update given by its developer, NaiSan. NaiSan posted in the SHIRO! Discord server…
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The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core added the last five months’ worth of test updates to the main branch yesterday, making them more accessible to users of the…
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SHIRO! already knows Saturn games are art, and now an arts festival agrees. Red Moon: Lost Days, the first commercial Sega Saturn homebrew game, has been accepted into the ninth…
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Modern platforms got two new Saturn games Wednesday when City Connection released Advanced V.G. and Steam-Heart’s — even in the West, for which there was no formal announcement. They’re part…
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Micro Motor Mayhem, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Saturn Ring Library are the big winners in the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition, as organizer Emerald Nova announced today…
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Trade your D20s for a Saturn controller because an English translation patch for the Sega Saturn port of sidescrolling beat-em-up Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is complete. The sole…
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The Sega Saturn is a success story. Thirty years ago today, the Saturn arrived on North American shores on May 11, 1995. Over the next three years, fans enjoyed a…
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The results of the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition have been delayed by about a week, its organizer said Thursday. EmeraldNova told others on the SegaXtreme Discord server…
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One of the Saturn’s oldest emulators got its first update in nearly a year last month, with SSF preview version 34 sporting a bevy of technical improvements. Many of the…
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A new adventure awaits English-speaking Saturn fans now that a translation patch for Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon is complete. The translator and hacker, Maud, posted a Google Drive link…
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The developer of the Satiator optical drive emulator released a new firmware Saturday numbered 162 that fixes crackling Redbook audio heard in some games. The problem cropped up with the…
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English- and French-speaking Saturn fans looking to dive into a horror adventure have a new one to check out: Dark Seed, for which a pair of translation patches came out…
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After six months of work initially based on a different team’s preliminary translation from more than a decade ago, fan hacker eadmaster has released an English translation patch for Saturn…
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The Android version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro was updated last week with a new look to its game list and a new way of reviewing games within the app….
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The Xbox One versions of Advanced V.G. and Steam Heart’s (sic), both part of City Connection’s Saturn Tribute line, have been canceled, the publisher announced Tuesday. In a statement on…
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Frogbull is full of surprises — the latest being a larger Shenmue project on Saturn than he initially teased, and it’s publicly playable, no less. The homebrew developer updated his…
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The deadline for the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition passed this morning, shortly followed by competition coordinator EmeraldNova revealing the entries, which totaled more than two dozen. There…
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The MiSTer FPGA’s Sega Saturn core has split off the ST-V Titan arcade platform into its own core.
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Eadmaster is nearly finished with his English fan translation patch for Saturn action RPG Princess Crown after uploading a pair of “release candidate” patches in the last two weeks, both…
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Miniature cars hit the streets — or rather, the tabletop — in Micro Motor Mayhem, the newest Saturn homebrew game. Developer JBeretta, known for last year’s SegaXtreme Game Contest original…
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There’s a new tool at Saturn fans’ disposal to make development of homebrew games on the console even easier: a software development kit called Saturn Ring Library. Its lead developer,…
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More than 1,100 games were released at retail for the Sega Saturn. But its library is more than that — dozens of fan-made homebrew games have been created in the…
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There were a few headlines for modern games this week that Saturn fans might be interested in, so let’s take a look at them. Croc HD set for April 2…