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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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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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SHIRO! Community Cashes Out Their Virtual Casino Chips
The SHIRO! community spent the last month losing countless digital dollars to bunny-clad women in Natsume’s “Serious Fun” Virtual Casino. Now that April has arrived, it is time for these…
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Script Editing Tool Aids Magic School Lunar Fan Translation
The programmer behind the Magic School Lunar fan translation patch released a meaty blog post Friday giving fans of the Lunar franchise, and Saturn RPGs, a look behind the scenes…
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Patch Makes More English Improvements to Willy Wombat
Over the weekend a new “Willy Wombat English Advancement Patch” was shared in a Romhacking.net forum post that, when used in conjunction with last year’s “English Improvement Patch,” translates perhaps…
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Homebrew Developer Ports Celeste Classic to Sega Saturn
A homebrew developer named En83 posted some exciting news on SegaXtreme on Friday: “Hi guys, I’ve ported Celeste Classic to the Sega Saturn. This is a port from the C…
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Patches Remove Flashing in Area 51, Maximum Force on Saturn
Saturn fans can now enjoy the light-gun classics Area 51 and Maximum Force free of unnecessary bright screen flashes courtesy of SHIRO! community member privateye. He uploaded patches Saturday to…
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Hit the Virtual Casino Jackpot This March With the SHIRO! Community
Let’s see your best poker face, SHIRO! community! The March Community Challenge is none other than the “Serious Fun” Virtual Casino. The Community Challenge begins March 1 and runs until…
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Segagaga Fan Translation Is Available Now!
[Editor’s note:] The GitHub page for this translation patch has an AI disclosure that, in part, says, “What I call the ‘playtesting translation’ — a base translation that allowed the…
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Patches Improve Trio of Saturn Light-Gun Classics
SHIRO! community member privateye released a trio of patches over the past month to make quality-of-life improvements to the Saturn ports of arcade light-gun classics The House of the Dead,…
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Lifts Close on the SHIRO! Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97 Community Challenge
WE GOT A NEW CHARISMA! The SHIRO! community kicked off 2026 shredding the 32-bit slopes of Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97 for our first organized challenge of the year. As the…
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Fan Passes Torch on Riglordsaga 2 English Translation Before Losing Battle With Cancer
A fan has worked to translate Saturn tactical RPG Riglordsaga 2 into English over the last year, but he won’t see his project to completion now that he’s succumbed to…
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The SHIRO! Community Hits the Slopes this January in Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97
Embrace the winter season with the SHIRO! community this January! We are kicking off 2026 by hitting the slopes in the snow-shredding Sega Saturn exclusive, Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97. The…
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Star Fox 64 Barrel Rolls onto the SEGA Dreamcast
On Dec. 5, yet another Nintendo 64 classic was ported to the SEGA Dreamcast by the seemingly inexhaustible Jnmartin84 and team. You can find the thorough — albeit taxing…
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English Improvement Patch Makes Willy Wombat More Accessible Than Ever
An English Improvement patch for the Sega Saturn exclusive 3D platformer Willy Wombat released today! Download the patch here. While Willy Wombat has long been considered playable with little to…
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New Beta of 240p Test Suite on Saturn Adds Audio, Controller Tests
The Sega Saturn port of the essential 240p Test Suite is making its way closer to being feature-complete with the release of version 0.3 beta 8. Here is the download…
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The SHIRO! Community Collects Their Bounties Following September’s Dark Savior Challenge
Jailor’s Island disappears beneath a blue horizon. Throughout the month of September, the SHIRO! community pursued the monster Bilan through treacherous castles overflowing with nerve-wracking obstacles and across parallel realities…
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Taisen Netplay Brings New Ways to Play Your Dreamcast Online
Taisen Netplay has reached its public beta, opening up a whole new avenue of online play for Dreamcast fans. Taisen Netplay is a tunneling script that leverages the signal from…
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Dark Savior Selected for SHIRO! September Community Challenge
This September the SHIRO! community will choose Garian’s fate in Climax Entertainment’s mixed-genre classic Dark Savior! Can you reach the captain’s quarters in time? Participants will pursue the murderous monster…
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After 2 Years of Work, Dragon Ball Z: The Legend is Now Playable in English
Dragon Ball Z: The Legend English Translation version 1.0 — a patch two years in the making — dropped on SegaXtreme this morning. You can download the patch here! This…
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An In-Progress English Patch for Sword & Sorcery Is Out Now
An in-progress patch for an English translation of Sword & Sorcery, a 1996 JRPG by Microcabin, was added to the SegaXtreme extreme resources section today! This patch, which is translating…
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Pair of Romhacks Show Albert Odyssey Some Love
Two romhacking projects look to bring quality of life changes and audio options to Sunsoft’s cult-classic Sega Saturn JRPG, Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean. Albert Odyssey is a rather standard…
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The Dust Settles on the Gungriffon SHIRO! Community Challenge
Over this past month the SHIRO! community commanded state-of-the-art High Mobility Armored Combat Systems (HIGH-MACs) across the battlefields of Eurasia in GameArts’ Gungriffon. By the end of July, 10 participants…
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Satiator Menu Kai Receives Multi-Disc Support in Upcoming Version
Cafe-alpha continues their decade-long quest to make playing games on real Saturn hardware more accessible and affordable. A June 22 update on their Patreon page detailed some features present in…
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The SHIRO! Community Battles Through the Eurasian Conflict This July!
Starting July 1 and running until the end of the month, the SHIRO! community will be hopping into the cockpits of HIGH-MACs to face off against the fighting factions of…
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Super Mario 64 Dreamcast Port Update: Renewed Effort Making Great Strides
The Dreamcast homebrew community continues to wow the retro gaming sphere with yet another port of a 1990s classic to Sega’s sixth-generation hardware. Falco Girgis, a developer with credits including…
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Mario Kart 64 Receiving a Fan Port to Dreamcast
This past week was big for Mario Kart fans old and new with the release of the latest entry in the series — Mario Kart World — and the surprise…
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Dreamcast Fans Treated to Yet Another Online Revival: Outtrigger
2025 continues to be a renaissance of sorts for Sega’s Dreamcast with yet another online server brought back to life by the fan community. Only a week ago the Dreamcast…
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Meduza Team Showcases FPS Boosting Codes for Sega Saturn Heavy Hitters
Meduza Team has been busy in the last several months implementing and testing frames per second (FPS) unlock codes for Sega Saturn titles. This effort was made public Dec. 29…
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Saturn Dragon Ball Homebrew Beat ‘Em Up Revealed
The Brazilian developer and retro YouTuber NaiSan (aka Nai Adventure) posted in the SHIRO! Discord server on Tuesday evening a glimpse of his in-development Sega Saturn homebrew, a beat ‘em…
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Trio of Aero Dancing Titles Are Back Online
Late April saw the return of online capabilities for not one, not two, but three Dreamcast, console-exclusive titles, all belonging to the Aero Dancing franchise. The Dreamcastlive.net announcement is here….
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The SHIRO! Community Grooves to Jung Rhythm This May
Beginning May 1 and running until the end of the month the SHIRO! community will be tackling the challenging, but incredibly charming — in a janky fifth-generation, 3D-graphics sort of…
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Exploring New Homebrew: MOAI Talks and Haiku
The SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition saw an impressive nine submissions in the “Original Games” category, and SHIRO! intends to shine a light on each of these. Today…
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Tokimeki Memorial Translation Team: Help Wanted!
Earlier this week, burntends took to X (formerly Twitter) and Discord to request help hacking and debugging an English patch of legendary dating sim Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You for…
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Latest Release of the Saturn DOOM Fix Patch Dramatically Improves Gameplay
Doom has famously been ported to just about everything imaginable, but not all ports of ID Software’s megahit first-person shooter were made equal. Both releases of Doom on Sega’s fifth-generation…