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Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute released worldwide Wednesday on digital storefronts as well as in physical form in Japan. It’s the latest in a line of emulated Saturn games…
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English-speaking Saturn fans are dancing for joy now that there’s a translation patch for the console’s only full-fledged music rhythm game, Jung Rhythm. It was made by a team that…
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High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge, an early Saturn exclusive that shipped with a two-player mode, could have let even more people in on the fun if developer Cave enabled a…
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Not long after crowning the Steep Slope Sliders champions April 1 as part of its ongoing Community Challenge series, SHIRO! announced changes to future iterations of the popular event. The…
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Looking for some light reading material about your favorite 32-bit console? A new fan-made coffee table book has you covered. “The Unofficial Sega Saturn Collection” is a 290-page paperback that…
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The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The…
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Saturn emulation may be coming to iOS devices after Apple changed their policy on emulators. Apple updated its App Store submission guidelines Friday to include rules for “game emulators” applying…
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Critically acclaimed anime film The First Slam Dunk is coming to Blu-ray in the U.S. on June 25, its distributor announced Monday. GKIDS posted a trailer for the release on…
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” And there will be… sorrow SAROO! “-Bad Religion There may be a few folks scratching their heads at this article’s title thinking, ‘What exactly is a… SAROO?’ If this…
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Saturn gameplay got a bit prettier for users of RetroTINK 4K video upscaler last month thanks to new firmware that automatically detects the resolution that games output. On Feb. 2,…
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Homebrewer hotrodx released an update to their Sega Saturn recreation of 1992 Konami arcade beat-em-up X-Men last week. Hotrodx distributed version 0.2 via a Mega.nz link in a YouTube video…
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Saturn hacker Bo Bayles is at it again — he’s found another previously unknown cheat code, this time for Shinobi Legions. It activates a debug mode, but you’ll want to…
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The results of the SegaXtreme 29th Anniversary Sega Saturn Game Competition were announced today, with homebrew survival horror game Cold Case, the English localization of Stellar Assault SS and a…
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In the last month, MiSTer Saturn core developer Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — has drilled down on everything from audio improvements to video RAM accuracy and made big gains…
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Jump for joy, Saturn fans — there’s a new English translation patch for one of the console’s exclusive fighting games, Rabbit. The patch released earlier today was made by Derek…
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The Switch and PlayStation releases of classic Saturn sidescrolling shooter Assault Suit Leynos 2 are being delayed in the West as a new company steps in to handle their physical…
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Back in March of last year, TrekkiesUnite118 created a thread on translating Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers on the SEGA Saturn using the official 3DS translation as a base. One…
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An English translation of Silhouette Mirage that’s faithful to the original Japanese script exists at last thanks to fans who released a patch for the Saturn version Wednesday. Rasputin3000 uploaded…
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Outrun is one of Sega’s most iconic franchises and one that is as identifiably Sega arguably as much as Sonic or Yakuza. The original arcade game from 1986 also got…
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The March Edition of our monthly SHIRO! Community Challenge is here, and it’s time to wax your boards and carve those slopes in CAVE’s snow-shredding classic, Steep Slope Sliders! This…
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An English fan translation for the sequel to a notorious Saturn lightgun shooter, Death Crimson, is out now, its project lead announced Tuesday. Derek “ateam” Pascarella said on social media…
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Slave Zero X, a brand new retro inspired side scroller is set to drop next week, February 21st on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo…
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There have been a flurry of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA over the last month now that its developer, Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — is…
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The Saturn community has become accustomed to fans creating translations for Japan-exclusive games and inserting them via patches. But it’s not every day that an official translation is found hiding…
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Saturn hacker Bo Bayles, behind such projects as the NiGHTS into Dreams Retro-Bit Controller fix, and finding the playable Dolphin in Burning Rangers, released a patch last week that unlocks…
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After years of waiting, we finally have Artemio’s 240p Test Suite now on SEGA Saturn care of hitomi2500, who’s ported it as their submission to SegaXtreme‘s annual Saturn homebrew game…
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A new world record in speedrunning Virtual Hydlide was set this week at the Awesome Games Done Quick charity event. Mechalink finished the 1995 Saturn RPG in 27 minutes and…
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Retro-bit released updated firmware Saturday for their new wireless Saturn Pro controller to fix input problems when using it on real Saturn hardware, but the “Virtual On Mode” it adds…
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For 28 years, North American owners of Saturn sidescrolling platformer Clockwork Knight 2 have had an entire extra game on their discs and never knew it. That changed on Christmas…
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The team behind the most widely used Sega Saturn softmod released a significant update to cap off 2023. Pseudo Saturn Kai V6.541 comes to the Saturn scene after about two…
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Saturn fans rung in the new year with an updated patch for Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight — or as it’s better known in the West, Castlevania: Symphony of…
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The Saturn Tribute release of classic Saturn sidescrolling shooter Assault Suit Leynos 2 is set for an April release, its publisher announced Thursday. City Connection updated its official website to…
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The Nights into Dreams soundtrack is coming to vinyl for the first time, with preorders open now and an expected shipment in March 2024. It’s coming from Data Discs, which…
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Last night, SEGA sent a massive SHOCKWAVE across social media platforms with their ‘POWER SURGE: SEGA REVEAL TRAILER – TGA 2023’ live premier! Fans were absolutely buzzing about this megaton…
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It’s been a busy week in the world of Sega Saturn fandom. Here are some of the stories you may have missed. Gundam translation shows off progress The team leader…