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Right before Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2024, Malenko — who has worked on several fan translations in the past, such as Tokyo Highway Battle ’97 and Saturn Bomberman Fight!! —…
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The missiles in Battle Garegga looked “broken” in the Saturn core before a recent update Updates slowed down a bit for the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA, with just…
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The SHIRO! Community Challenge for September centered around Microcabin-developed and SEGA-published strategy role playing game “Blazing Heroes.” Organizers doled out awards and prizes to about a dozen participants. Also known…
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Homebrew developer hotrodx is back with a new version of their Sega Saturn recreation of X-Men, the 1992 Konami arcade brawler, and it adds a new playable character, Nightcrawler, as…
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We’re still a few months away from the next annual SegaXtreme Saturn homebrew competition, but that doesn’t mean talented members of the community aren’t already showing off progress on their…
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The Saturn MiSTer core has seen a flurry of updates in the last week, partially thanks to an unexpected source — another developer. A developer named Rattboi did a lot…
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If you’ve ever wanted your roleplay gaming to be a little more competitive or your book club to be more video game-y, then SHIRO! has the Community Challenge for you….
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Last month, I released restoration patches for all six discs of “Birdcage of Horrors” (Grauen no Torikago / グラウエンの鳥籠) on the SEGA Dreamcast. Today, I’m proud to announce my team and I…
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The Saturn MiSTer core was updated twice last week with a focus on audio fixes. Developer Sergiy Dvodnenko, aka SRG320, improved the accuracy of sound effects found in Saturn games…
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A new homebrew software is demonstrating what can be done with the Saturn’s sound processor, giving users control over its capabilities with a simple text-based interface running on the console….
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The big winner in SHIRO!’s Community Challenge Event for July, which saw the nearly two dozen participants chasing the fastest times in a combination of Sega Saturn racers “High Velocity”…
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A fan-made patch released Monday redubs Resident Evil into Spanish, likely representing the first non-English fan dub of a Saturn game. It was headed up by Salvi Garrido, a professional…
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The first update for the English translation patch for Shining Force III in more than a year and a half was made public July 19, adding the ability to choose…
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Started back in July of 2021, Sega Mania represented a return to physical print magazines for SEGA fans and it kicked off a bit of an avalanche of similarly SEGA…
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Over Jump Rally is a project by a single independent developer to recreate the legendary Sega Rally. So far Alessandro Schiassi, has shared his work on remaking the iconic Forest…
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A custom Saturn-themed fight stick is up for auction, and the proceeds are going to a good cause. Sporting a white Saturn shape and decals with beloved Japanese Sega mascot…
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After several months of hard work, Saturn community member & developer, Frogbull, shared his latest progress on the Metal Gear Solid project for Sega Saturn. Frogbull claims the second level…
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Another unreleased Saturn game made its way into the public’s hands when Hidden Palace released three prototypes of Hard Boiled on its website today. Photo courtesy of Hidden Palace. The…
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Our SHIRO! Community Challenge for July 2024 is underway, as several members drift their way to prizes and the title of “TOUGE KING” in our latest High Velocity Mountain Racing…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
On July 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker & reverse engineer, Bo Bayles, released a special game patch in celebration of the 28th Anniversary of NiGHTS into Dreams… In this reimaged…
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Genre defining is a superlative that describes many games in Sega’s back catalogue, as you may expect from a videogame titan that defined many genres. The Rail Shooter is one…
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A new patch for Saturn shmup Radiant Silvergun adds features from other versions of the game as well as a brand new scoring system. It was created over the course…
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The upcoming seventh SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament is gonna be … Duke Nukem 3D! Since Duke is pretty playable even with high ping, we’re opening this tournament up to…
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SHIRO!’s SEGA Saturn community celebrated two online tournament champions in recent months with SHIRO! Discord server members Gregori Rasputin claiming the top spot in Monday night’s Puzzle Bobble 3 tournament…
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A patch for Blast Wind — a 1997 Saturn-exclusive vertical shooter from the heralded shmup specialists at Technosoft that only released in Japan — came out over the weekend that…
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SHIRO! Media Group’s Community Challenge closed May 31 with about 150 scores submitted by nearly two dozen gladiators, but only one reigned supreme. May’s challenge centered around two Digital Pinball…
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The developer of the first commercially sold Saturn homebrew game, Red Moon: Lost Days, has announced its prequel. The game, Lost Days 0, was announced during the Homebrew Games Summer…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
On June 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker extraordinaire, Bo Bayles, announced the latest in his series of game patches that seek to restore hidden/unused assets & functionality to Saturn games….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Cheat codes, a debug screen and evidence of cut characters in Fighters Megamix have been revealed after a hacker unearthed them Thursday. Just a week after finding secrets in Fighting…
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It’s finally here! SegaXtreme.net user TrekkiesUnite118 released an update yesterday to his Sega Saturn FILM Tools application (Version 3.0.0) that seeks to bring an end to the need for classic…
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A bevy of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA have targeted problems with specific games’ graphics. One prominent one that was fixed recently was Cotton 2, whose…
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One of the earliest Saturn emulators is still going strong after it got an update last weekend — its third since the beginning of the year. The emulator, SSF, didn’t…
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On April 26, 2024, community member Frogbull posed yet another “what if” question for Saturn by teasing a demo build of Naughty Dog’s Crash Bandicoot running on Saturn hardware. Frogbull’s…
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Just yesterday, April 28th, JoEngine author, Johannes Fetz, announced a significant update to the Sega Saturn Software Development Kit that now includes support for Voxels. New version of #JoEngine for…
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SHIRO! announced its next Community Challenge in May will feature two titles in the Digital Pinball series: Last Gladiators Ver. 9.7 and Necronomicon. Co-organizer Gregori Rasputin said May’s Community Challenge…