Sega & Saturn Related News
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Exxistance does it again and releases a fan translation based on the anime and manga series Ninku. The fighting game follows the frog-looking character Fūsuke, who is immensely powerful and…
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An old project to translate Saturn strategy RPG Langrisser III into English is being revived this month — by two people in unrelated, simultaneous efforts. What’s more, neither person originally…
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The Sega Saturn homebrew and translation scene is hoppin’ this time of year. From new games to updates to translation patches and utilities, let’s take a look at some of…
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A hacker new to the Saturn scene released a patch Tuesday that translates Kyuutenkai, also known as Fantastic Pinball, into English. ShivaSaturn posted a thread on SegaXtreme talking about their…
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It has been a year since SHIRO! last covered Paul Met and Meduza Team’s development of codes to unlock the framerate in select Sega Saturn titles, and they have been…
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Two more Saturn light-gun compatible games, Jinzou Ningen Hakaider: Last Judgement (localized as Mechanical Violator Hakaider: Last Judgement) and Scud: The Disposable Assassin, are now playable free of screen flashes…
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Download DreamMovie (UNLOCKED) here:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/DreamMovie-UNLOCKED After 25 years of being locked away behind some of the most insane software/hardware protection I’ve ever seen for a $25 unlicensed console accessory, DreamMovie for the SEGA Dreamcast has…
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Back on March 28, CLAMP’s BlueSky account released more details about the upcoming Magic Knight Rayearth anime: 【ニュース】TVアニメ『魔法騎士レイアース』最新情報が解禁●放送枠決定2026年10月より、毎週水曜よる11：45～テレビ朝日系全国ネット“IMAnimation W”枠 ※一部地域を除く●メインキャスト発表獅堂光:佐倉綾音／龍咲海：大久保瑠美／鳳凰寺風：高橋李依●キービジュアル、ティザーPV 公開●CLAMP 描きおろしイラストとメッセージ 公開●公式Tiktok開設#CLAMP#魔法騎士レイアース#MagicKnightRayearth— CLAMP公式 (@clamp-official.bsky.social) 2026-03-28T08:06:36.901Z Translation: [News]Latest Information Revealed…
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The programmer behind the Magic School Lunar fan translation patch released a meaty blog post Friday giving fans of the Lunar franchise, and Saturn RPGs, a look behind the scenes…
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A group of SegaXtreme community members banded together to buy and dump a pair of Saturn prototypes: one of Quake, and one of Fantastep. VBT made a thread at 7:24…
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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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Over the weekend a new “Willy Wombat English Advancement Patch” was shared in a Romhacking.net forum post that, when used in conjunction with last year’s “English Improvement Patch,” translates perhaps…
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[Editor’s note: This story was updated March 29 to add Sascha’s name, clarify that Project Neon does not use WiFi for online multiplayer, add details about the cartridge prototype’s expected…
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An update today for the MiSTer FPGA’s Saturn core improves the performance of many 3D fighting games when using just one memory module. Doing so has stretched the MiSTer’s hardware…
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A long-dormant project to create a wireless Bluetooth adapter for the Saturn 3D controller is alive once again, according to a blog post from its creator. Dave, the owner of…
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One of my white whales in Sega Saturn homebrew game development has been sound and music. Starting out on Jo Engine, I quickly found out that the sound functions didn’t…
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The Saturn is on people’s minds in all corners of the world — from the Japanese developers of Yakuza to the French fans on the Delta Island forum to a…
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A homebrew developer named En83 posted some exciting news on SegaXtreme on Friday: “Hi guys, I’ve ported Celeste Classic to the Sega Saturn. This is a port from the C…
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The publisher of vertical shooter Radiant Silvergun’s PC port on Steam patched the game Sunday after a player discovered a way to score endlessly during a boss fight. Live Wire’s…
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Saturn fans can now enjoy the light-gun classics Area 51 and Maximum Force free of unnecessary bright screen flashes courtesy of SHIRO! community member privateye. He uploaded patches Saturday to…
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SamIAm and CyberWarriorX are no longer working on their English translation patch of Princess Crown, an Atlus action RPG released only in Japan exclusively for the Sega Saturn in 1997….
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The long-rumored Saturn graphics accelerator was real, according to an interview between former Sega hardware designers Kenji Tosaki and Junichi Naoi published this week. Not only that, but Virtua Fighter…
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Finally Lupin III Saturn fans, after all these years you can now play Lupin the 3rd: Pyramid no Kenja (Or known in English as Sage of Pyramid):https://romhack.ing/database/content/entry/XJ5SNtjQSvK5-CLf2YUFeg/lupin-iii-the-sage-of-pyramid-english-translation For those of…
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Here’s a quick-hit roundup of recent stories around the Sega Saturn scene. Video demonstrates Saturn sound chip calculating graphics A SegaXtreme homebrew developer named Jollyroger demonstrated that the Saturn’s audio…
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Josh Fairhurst, former owner of Limited Run Games, has released the prototype Saturn port of full-motion video game Prize Fighter onto the Internet Archive. The archive includes both the North…
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[Editor’s note:] The GitHub page for this translation patch has an AI disclosure that, in part, says, “What I call the ‘playtesting translation’ — a base translation that allowed the…
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The above video was posted to YouTube shortly before patch v1.0.3 was released. Forever Entertainment released a free playable demo of Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake. The demo is their rendition…
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The first demo of Saturn Tomb Raider 2 is available now — grab it here! 1996 saw the release of the very first Tomb Raider, hitting the Saturn first, followed…
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The developer of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro debuted an online tool this week for converting other emulators’ save files to a format his software can use. It follows an update…
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SHIRO! community member privateye released a trio of patches over the past month to make quality-of-life improvements to the Saturn ports of arcade light-gun classics The House of the Dead,…
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A barebones recreation of Minecraft is running on Saturn thanks to homebrew developer Frogbull, and he’s already made it available for some players to try out. Frogbull revealed the project…
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A new firmware update for the SAROO cartridge attempts to fix a bug that’s plagued the low-cost Saturn optical drive emulator for years. The SAROO’s creator, TPUnix, uploaded firmware version 0.9…
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Project Justice, a sequel to the first Rival Schools, was released in December 2000 in Japan, and in March 2001 in North America. Both games were relatively the same, but…
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A Japan-exclusive Saturn game is getting a new English translation, but not from fans — this time, an official localization is coming from City Connection, the publisher revealed Thursday. Culdcept,…
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A franchise that began on the Saturn launched its first new entry in years today with Sega Football Club Champions going on sale for Android and iOS devices as well…