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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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“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!”…
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We wish you a happy NEW YEAR’S EVE, and with it an announcement of 2025’s first SHIRO! Community Challenge, which begins right when that ball hits the ground! January’s chilly…
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Hello again SEGA Saturn fans, it’s James the SEGAHolic here of The SEGAGuys and as 2024 draws to a close, TPUnix has dropped version 0.7 of his SAROO firmware, adding…
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Gameplay of GTA III on actual Dreamcast hardware For years, Grand Theft Auto 3 was a missed opportunity for Dreamcast, having been developed for it but eventually cancelled due to…
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Light your fuses, Saturn fans — the English fan translation of 3D isometric battler “Saturn Bomberman Fight!!” is finished and available to the public. Lead patch developer Malenko uploaded the…
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Editor’s note: The developer, RetroRaiderJohn, provided clarifications on the scope of his expanded plans after the original version of this story was published. The story has been edited to reflect…
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This is a crosspost of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. The SegaXtreme Game of the Month for December 2024 is…
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Hello again, SEGA fans, it’s James the SEGAHolic of the SEGAGuys here, and we’re back with another Sega Saturn homebrew update. As followers of the channel will be aware, we’ve…
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The English fan translation patch of Logic Puzzle: Rainbow Town was updated this week, fixing bugs that caused crashes and adjusting the names of some of the puzzles. Its developer,…
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It is time again for the annual SegaXtreme homebrew game competition! This is the sixth annual SEGA Saturn Anniversary Game Competition that I’ve hosted on SegXtreme since restarting the competition…
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A new version of the Windows version of Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro 2 released yesterday to coincide with the Saturn’s 30th anniversary in Japan. Developer Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto wrote…
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This is a cross post of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. The game of the month for November 2024 is…
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The thrilling conclusion to the inaugural year of the SHIRO! Community Challenge begins Friday as participants will compete in the Raizing-developed, shooter-racing game hybrid “Kingdom Grandprix.” Throughout the month of…
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The surprise release of an English translation patch for Princess Crown was met with widespread praise among fans, before it was quickly marred with controversy after the original team raised…
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Since the publication of this article, we have heard back from eadmaster and published an interview with him. You can read it by clicking here. SamIAm, the person behind a…
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Editor’s note: Since this article was published, it has come to our attention that the person who created the patch used old resources and did not communicate with the original…
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The ability to unplug the cable from the Saturn 3D Control Pad sent the imagination of fans on a rollercoaster for many years. Former SEGA hardware developer Kenji Tosaki spoke…