Sega & Saturn Related News
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Hacker Patchyfluffy has released an English patch for the pet simulator Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park, an exclusive to the Saturn. As the name suggests, you run a park…
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Prolific Saturn hacker KoolFiller has released one of his most ambitious projects to date over on SegaXtreme, a hacked version of Athena‘s 1997 Saturn shmup maker Dezaemon 2 that not…
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A new anime adapting 1993 manga Magic Knight Rayearth debuted last week, breathing life into a property that was featured in one of the Sega Saturn’s most beloved games. The…
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Big news for Saturn fans was shared this week in the SHIRO! Discord: Two Japanese-exclusive, online-only Saturn titles thought lost to time have been cracked open by one of the…
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KoolFiller isn’t kooling down anytime soon when it comes to his Saturn hacking, releasing yet another English translation yesterday morning to download on SegaXtreme. Having just released the first volume…
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Saturn homebrew developer Frogbull, or “Frogbullsh*t” as some may affectionately say, posted a massive update to the Metal Gear Solid porting project. A video on the dev’s YouTube channel posted…
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Last week, Xiden released updates for both PlanetWeb and the Sega Touring Car Championship leaderboard, which makes using the NetLink or Xband modem cartridges for browsing and submitting STCC times…
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In September, a user on GitHub known as pepa released an English fan translation for Snatcher on the PlayStation 1, labeled as release v0.5. After various iterations over the month,…
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An English translation patch for the Saturn home-exclusive action puzzler Monster Slider is now available! While this patch was created specifically for the October SHIRO! Community Challenge — more details…
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The Indie Game Studio Memoria Pixel, a team of software and hardware developers from Brazil, has provided new details on its in-development homebrew project titled Kid Racers, coming soon to…
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The summer of Saturn blazes on even into fall with yet another English fan translation on the Saturn thanks to KoolFiller! The first release of the Arcade Gears series of…
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The Dreamcast sure has been getting a lot of love lately. Sonic R is the latest title to join the recent avalanche of fan-made ports to Sega’s sixth-generation powerhouse with…
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On September 7, developer Grimfel announced his work in progress to port Resident Evil 2 to the Sega Saturn, and he had it running on real hardware by the 13th!…
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Exxistance dropped his and Wiredcrackpot’s English translation hack for the Saturn exclusive Cyber Doll this morning on his GitHub. Developed by Betop and published by I’Max in 1996 in Japan,…
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For the first time in nearly two years, the fan recreating X-Men Arcade on Sega Saturn released an update. X-Men Arcade Version 0.5.0D is linked in the YouTube video below,…
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Released by CheeseburgerFreedomMan over on SegaXtreme at the end of last month, an English translation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion dating game Girlfriend of Steel has made second impact on…
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Developer Hinges (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam) appears to be well underway with the rapid-fire creation of a user-friendly 3D game development tool for Sega Saturn….
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Longtime translation patch group Meduza Team is back with another shadowdropped effort — this time it’s Madou Monogatari, also known as Sorcery Saga. The patch went up Tuesday on Meduza…
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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…