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Longtime Saturn homebrew coder Ervilsoft submitted their Saturn port of the infamous Flash game The World’s Hardest Game to the SegaXtreme Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. You can see SHIRO!’s…
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The checkered flag is waving as the SHIRO! community celebrates the end of an exhilarating month of F1 Challenge! Step away from your sweat-slicked Arcade Racers, fingers off those worn…
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The romhacker KoolFiller continues to pack the SegaXtreme resource section with quality projects. His latest contribution is a quartet of English activation patches, with additional improvements to liven the package…
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A colorful Saturn 2D fighter is more accessible for English-speaking audiences thanks to a new patch from Saturn community regular Exxistance. “My small entry is a partial English menu translation…
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Long-term Saturn developer slinga submitted a 3.7.0 Alpha build of their Save Game Copier into the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. The SHIRO! announcement of this year’s showcase…
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Two English activation patches were posted to SegaXtreme earlier this week that make it even easier for non-Japanese-speaking Saturn fans to enjoy the Saturn games Battle Garegga and Bubble Symphony…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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…