Sega & Saturn Related News
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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…
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The Dreamcast ODE landscape is essentially made up of three options: GDEMU, USB-GDROM, and MODE (I won’t include the IDE mod in this particular conversation). Each arguably brings something special…
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A fan has worked to translate Saturn tactical RPG Riglordsaga 2 into English over the last year, but he won’t see his project to completion now that he’s succumbed to…
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Raytracing isn’t just for modern video cards, apparently — homebrew developer XL2 is making it happen on the 31-year-old Sega Saturn. Raytracing is a technique for simulating the way light…
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An update to Saturn homebrew FPS Vigilant Paradise addresses bugs and difficulty complaints after the game’s popularity blew up two weeks ago. Riccardo Campione released version 1.001 yesterday on his…
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Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro features better touch screen controls in its mobile versions after recent updates by its developer, Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto. On social media, DevMiyax posted a video showing…
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There is a new homebrew first-person shooter for the Sega Saturn — or rather, there has been for nearly two months. That’s because Vigilant Paradise was announced by its developer…
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I am familiar with the work of ZONE-SAMA. This artist is a pioneer of 2000’s internet culture, having graced flash animation sites with all time classics such as Reiko: Biker…
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Saturn fans will have to fit some time for another game between playthroughs of Christmas NiGHTS after an English fan translation patch for Delisoba Deluxe released today. Exxistance uploaded the…
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Airs Adventure, an “it’s so bad it’s good” Sega Saturn RPG exclusive to Japan, now has an English translation patch thanks to a team of fans. SnowyAria, who translated the…
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And now there are two visual novels in English on the SEGA Dreamcast… Announcing my English translation patch release of “Di Gi Charat Fantasy,” which you can download from my…
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A new test shows the SAROO cartridge, a low-cost Saturn optical drive emulator, loads data inconsistently, possibly revealing the source of audio bugs, crashes and other glitches that users have…
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Two Sega Saturn optical drive emulators got firmware updates over the weekend: the Fenrir and the SAROO. A photo posted by Pjaska of Fenrir Loader Kai failing to load a…
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An English Improvement patch for the Sega Saturn exclusive 3D platformer Willy Wombat released today! Download the patch here. While Willy Wombat has long been considered playable with little to…
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From new firmware for ODEs to homemade projects with Raspberry Pis to homebrew at conventions, there’s always something going on in the Sega Saturn community. Let’s see what’s happened over…
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The Fighting Vipers soundtrack released on CD and streaming services Thursday to commemorate the arcade game’s 30th anniversary. It appears the album is being sold only through Japanese retailers, including Beep, Amazon…
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Taito launched a new entry in its Bubble Bobble series today on modern platforms — and it includes the Saturn version of Bubble Symphony. Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons is available…
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The SEGA Saturn released in Japan on November 22, 1994. Alongside it came Virtua Fighter as a pack in title, and a selection of four additional launch titles available for…
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NetLink users have a new place to browse now that a version of the SegaXtreme forum is compatible with the PlanetWeb browser. Earlier this month, Reye created a mirror of…
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The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core continues to use custom tests to refine the timings between emulated circuits in his implementation of the console in the FPGA. Over…
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A new patch for the Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night swaps in the English script and voiceovers from the PS1 version to an existing patch that used…
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Limited Run Games announced plans Wednesday to publish Prize Fighter Heavyweight Edition on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 next year. Prize Fighter is a full-motion video boxing game originally…
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A promised game that never materialized is finally playable in some form after fans released a prototype of Destruction Derby 2’s Saturn version Sunday night. Longtime member of the SegaXtreme…
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Saturn gamers enjoying Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom can improve the aural experience with a new patch that replaces the music with higher quality tracks. A fan named Qurt…