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“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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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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A former Bethesda employee by the name of Michael Matthews once caught the attention of a Sega Saturn Facebook group. He posted pictures of the development Saturn console they used…
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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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Download Rhea/Phoebe Sorter:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Rhea-Phoebe-Sorter Back in 2015, hardware engineer Deunan released his Rhea and Phoebe ODEs (optical drive emulators) for the Sega Saturn. These two represent the first of their kind…
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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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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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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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Noah and the Poohloudies just got its first update (and it’s a BIG one) in over four years, after hitting a dead end with the previous game engine. This time…
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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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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 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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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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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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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…
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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….