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A fan is hacking an old English translation into the Saturn version of daughter-raising simulator Princess Maker 2. Washbear posted a thread on SegaXtreme last week showing off her progress…
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At last, a translator is on board the effort to turn Grandia: Digital Museum’s script into English, according to the project lead. TrekkiesUnite118 posted Wednesday on SegaXtreme that Wiredcrackpot has…
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This morning, version 2.0 of Exxistance’s Willy Wombat English Improvement patch went live. This patch is markedly more ambitious than its version 1.0 predecessor, going well beyond English menus. Exxistance’s…
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Earlier this week, Exxistance dropped a surprise English translation patch for the SEGA AGES port of the sprite scaling arcade racer Power Drift over on his GitHub. Released in 1998…
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Once again, prolific fan translator Exxistance releases another English fan translation in his “Summer of Saturn” series. Today, he translated the remaining Japanese text on Saturn fighter Dead or Alive….
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The Saturn scene never takes a break, and neither can SHIRO!’s coverage of it. Get caught up on this week’s Saturn news with this roundup. Shadowmask converts PandaMonium video to…
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Released this morning by KoolFiller over on Segaxtreme, a full English translation is now available for the straight to home consoles hot-blooded family beat ’em up Nekketsu Oyako. A December…
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A pair of new quality-of-life patches – one for the Crime Patrol prototype and the other for Policenauts – were released on SegaXtreme earlier this week by romhacker privateye. Released…
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New English fan translation patches for lesser-known titles Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth (referred to just as Tama moving forward) and Hissatsu! are now available for us all to…
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Cyber Doll Back in July 2025, fan translator Exxistance began work on the cyberpunk RPG Cyber Doll on the Saturn with translator Wiredcrackpot: While there hasn’t been an open fan…
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A homebrew developer is working on porting SCUMM, the engine behind many classic point-and-click adventure games on the PC, to the Saturn. Happy-Ferret gave an update Thursday on the Saturn…
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Back in June 2001, with the popularity of the Magic: The Gathering property exploding the ’90s and continuing its domination in the 2000s despite the rise of other games such…
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Culdcept the First, a modern worldwide re-release of Japan-exclusive Saturn game Culdcept, launched today on PC via Steam. The game’s full price is US$29.99, although there’s a 10% launch discount…
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A series of updates have come to Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro over the last two weeks to bring its performance closer to real hardware on both Android devices and Windows….
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A not-so-surprise Saturn launch, Western boxarts for unreleased Capcom games and a look into Bernie Stolar’s 1998 console strategy — these are just a few of the interesting tidbits that…
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An all-new look at the early years of E3 is being shown to the world courtesy of the Video Game History Foundation. This includes several new media kits, promotional material…
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This week saw the release of version 0.2.4 of the Saturn TON Editor by developer Frogbull. The most recent updates have included UI improvements, tooltips and some user-requested features by…
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Two new quality-of-life patches by romhacker privateye dropped on SegaXtreme earlier this month, this time for Daisuki and Death Crimson. Released patches for Death Crimson and Daisuki on Saturn that:…
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Earlier this week, SEGARPGFAN revealed his latest Saturn online project in development, a ghost car portal website for Sega Touring Car Championship! This site connects directly to SEGA Saturn’s Netlink…
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Judging is over for the contest portion of the SegaXtreme Showcase, and so is the mystery surrounding its secret translation patch entry — it’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, as revealed…
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An unprecedented entry was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase this year: Coup, a homebrew game that not only features six-player simultaneous online play but also crossplay with a Web version….
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This week, we’ve gotten a few pieces of news that are notable to Saturn fans, from an infamous dating sim is getting a remake, to a patch enabling a hidden…
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A small but promising homebrew game was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase last month: Fists of Ouchie, a 2D versus fighting game. It somewhat resembles Super Smash Bros. — its…
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An in-progress isometric RPG was submitted to the SegaXtreme Showcase last month called Shadows of Peakwater. It’s a 2D turn-based game being developed by 500zorkmids, who said they were inspired…
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A Saturn port of the “abstract” bullet-hell shooter Noiz2sa has been submitted by the.chojin to the SegaXtreme Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. You can see SHIRO!’s summary of the submissions…
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New patches for SteamGear Mash not only translate the isometric Saturn-exclusive shooter into English but also add support for the 3D controller. Suinevere Pendragon uploaded the patches Monday to SegaXtreme…
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Prolific fan translation patch maker Exxistance kicked off what he calls his “summer of Saturn” today with an English patch for the Saturn port of SNK 2D fighting game Shinouken,…
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Waialae no Kiseki: Extra 36 Holes — the Walrus-less spiritual successor to Pebble Beach Golf Links — is now playable in English thanks to a recent “English Toggle Patch” by…
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Crypt Killer and Mighty Hits are the latest light-gun titles to receive quality of life patches courtesy of romhacker privateye. Released patches for Crypt Killer and Mighty Hits on Saturn…
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The Android version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro was updated over the weekend, bringing a major rewrite of how the VDP2 graphics chip is emulated. It comes just a few…
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New patches this week add 3D analog controller functionality to a pair of Saturn racing games, V.R. Virtua Racing and High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge, as well as keyboard and…
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It’s free, open source under the GPLv3, and ready to download right now:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/UniversalDreamcastPatcher Just over six years ago, I set out on a mission. I wanted to write an application…
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Longtime Saturn homebrew coder Ervilsoft submitted their Saturn port of the infamous Flash game The World’s Hardest Game to the SegaXtreme Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. You can see SHIRO!’s…
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There are a few smaller stories of interest to the Saturn community this week, from a movie with ties to a Saturn game hitting North American theaters for the first…
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The romhacker KoolFiller continues to pack the SegaXtreme resource section with quality projects. His latest contribution is a quartet of English activation patches, with additional improvements to liven the package…