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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Bo Bayles shared a very handy Action Replay code over the weekend that unlocks the remaining 15 fighters in the Saturn exclusive four-player fighter Keriotosse! This brings the fighters roster…
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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…
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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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Homebrew developer Frogbull is back at it, this time showing off the fan-favorite New Yokosuka Harbor District forklift racing from Dreamcast classic Shenmue running on the Saturn in glorious 32…
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The original wipEout has sped onto the Dreamcast now that a fan developer has ported the futuristic racer to Sega’s sixth-generation console. “Here’s the first release,” developer jnmartin84 said on…
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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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“Hang-On GP went by in a flash, though something tells me that the tinnitus-like buzz of the motor won’t leave me anytime soon!“ — Gregori Rasputin The SEGA Saturn SHIRO!…
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Download Patch:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Capcomvs.SNK2-EnglishPatchDreamcast Exactly one year in the making, today I proudly announce our English translation patch release for “Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001” on the SEGA Dreamcast! What…
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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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Saturn hacker Hitomi2500 today posted an in-progress fan translation for the Japanese-only Saturn RPG Airs Adventure that he is working on along with SnowyAria, who is handling the translation work….
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Get ready to shuffle your deck of magic cards and save the world — an English fan translation patch for Saturn-exclusive card-battling RPG Arcana Strikes is available to download now….
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Attention all Sega Saturn homebrew developers, game translators, patchers, hackers and tinkerers alike: The deadline for the 2025 SegaXtreme Saturn Homebrew Competition is fast approaching! All entries must be submitted…
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An English translation patch for the Sega Saturn port of sidescrolling beat-em-up Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is nearly complete, according to a recent update by the fan hacker…
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On Thursday, March 6th, Ced, the creator of the Fenrir Optical Drive Emulator released a the long-awaited Beta Preview Build of his WiFi SMB Firmware via the Fenrir Discord Server…
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A new development library by Danny, SaturnMath++ has just been released. SaturnMath++ is a C++23 library dedicated to Sega Saturn hardware, offering essential mathematical operations tailored for fixed-point arithmetic and…
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On Saturday, March 8th, JoEngine author, Johannes Fetz, released a new stable version v2025.1 of his trusty Sega Saturn Software Development Kit. This marks the first update in nearly a…
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Our good friend, Saturn Memories, has compiled the most ridiculously comprehensive directory of all ports, remakes, sequels, spiritual successors, clones, and games influenced by or exhibiting notable similarities to Sega Saturn…
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Last year, we discussed how more Saturn peripherals have begun to be cloned. It started with the SAROO, which is open source, but many different kinds popped up on AliExpress….
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The creator of the Satiator released two new menus over the weekend that improve how the optical drive emulator handles folders for Saturn games that use multiple discs. Professor Abrasive…
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The iOS version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro was updated Feb. 26 to enable saving game progress in the cloud as well as support for Action Replay cheat codes, its…
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The March SHIRO! Monthly Community Challenge will need you to hang on tight!!! It’s time to once again bust out those Racing Controllers because this polygonal take on the classic…
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Eadmaster continues to make progress on his English fan translation patch for Saturn action RPG Princess Crown, updating it twice in the last month to fit more text on screen,…
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On February 21, 2025, Saturn hardware hacker, TZMWX announced that he is currently testing his own newly developed switcher that aims for universal compatibility with ALL existing Saturn ODEs (optical…
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Get ready to defend White Base from the Principality of Zeon, Saturn fans — the English fan translation patch for Mobile Suit Gundam is finished and downloadable. The patch’s lead…
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As the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA draws closer to perfect emulation of Sega’s fifth-generation console, its developers have turned their attention to adding extra features — most recently,…
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“Winter Heat has come and gone, and our carpals can breath a collective sigh of relief! Thank you all for making the first SHIRO! Community Challenge of 2025 a success!”…