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Nine-Player Chaos on First NetLink Night
SHIRO!’s first scheduled NetLink Night last Friday yielded a lot of fun — and a lot of chaos. At one point, nine players on nine Saturn consoles across two continents…
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SHIRO! Monthly: A New Digital Magazine
Hi everyone! We’ve got a new perk for all paid Patreon members: a digital magazine using all the stories we posted to the website in March! It’s attached to this…
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SegaXtreme Homebrew Showcase Deadline Just Four Weeks Away
It’s crunch time, Saturn developers: The deadline is just four weeks away for the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. That deadline is May 11, specifically — the 31st…
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Puyo Puyo Sun Is Set to Shine on Next SHIRO! Online Tournament
It is time for the ninth SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament, so get ready to get down with some Puyo Puyo Sun For SEGANET! Sign-ups are now live over on…
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Final Whistle Blows for SHIRO! Online Soccer Tournament
Kicking off at the end of November last year, the eighth SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament in SEGA Worldwide Soccer ’98 has come sliding to an end! The winner of…
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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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Slinga’s 12-Player Disasteroids Goes Online!
Back in January 2023, Slinga released multiplayer mayhem onto Saturn in the form of Disasteroids, a 12-player Asteroids clone submitted to the 28th Anniversary Game Competition. One of many in…
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SegaXtreme Game of the Month for March 2026: Riglordsaga
This is a cross post of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. Didn’t have room to post three different box arts,…
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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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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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Three Virtua Champs Skid Across Virtua Finish Line in November’s Community Challenge
“Ever since I was a kid I yearned for something like this, to share my love for this beautiful game with the world and encourage others to play it. There…
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Announcing the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase
The SEGA Saturn released in Japan on November 22, 1994. Alongside it came Virtua Fighter as a pack in title, and a selection of four additional launch titles available for…
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Virtua Racing Revving Up for November’s Community Challenge
“It’s time to hit the Virtua tarmac, burn some Virtua rubber, and impress those Virtua babes! So strap in, because we’re NOT pumping the brakes any time soon. This will…
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US vs. EU in Upcoming Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 Online Tournament
Sign-ups are now live over on the SHIRO! Discord in the #online_tournaments chat for the upcoming online Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 For Sega Networks Tournament. This time around, to speed…
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Duke Nukem 3D NetLink Tournament Is Over, Baby!
What started back in August last year, the Worldwide SEGA Saturn SHIRO! 32-person Duke Nukem 3D Saturn NetLink Online Double Elimination Tournament has finally come to an end. We were…
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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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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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Fans Bring the Saturn to Gamescom 2025
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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SHIRO! Adds Support for NetLink Discord Messaging with Discross
Members of the Sega Saturn SHIRO! Discord may find themselves interacting with users in a new way after the staff added support for the Discross messaging app today! Saturn NetLink/XBand…
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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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Sega Pluto, Dragon Ball Homebrew at Retrocon in Brazil
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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Saturn Online Gets Matchmaking Server
“Two of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while to improve the Netlink experience: 1. Make a simple matchmaking server so people don’t have to exchange public…
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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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Curtains Drop on May’s Jung Rhythm Community Challenge
“The May Community Challenge boogied on by, and now Jung Rhythm might as well have been a fever dream! It’s easy to lose track of time when you are getting…
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SegaXtreme Homebrew Competition Results Delayed to May 17
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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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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Make Movies for Your Saturn With Sega FILM Tools 3.0.1, Cinepak Movie Disc 1.0
This year we saw two submissions from TrekkiesUnite118 to the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition. First is an update to Sega FILM Tools, a useful java app for…
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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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More Than Two Dozen Entries in SegaXtreme 30th Anniversary Game Competition
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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Hang-On GP Community Challenge Done and Dusted
“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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SegaXtreme Saturn Homebrew Competition Inches Closer to the Deadline
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…