Sega & Saturn Related News
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The fan who’s spent most of this year porting futuristic racer wipEout to the Dreamcast declared it complete with the version released Sunday. Jnmartin84 uploaded “v2 final” to his GitHub…
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A new version of SSF released Monday improves its emulation of the Saturn and decreases how often the program crashes. The latest preview version of SSF, called PreviewVer_R37, as well…
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It’s Fighting Vipers’ turn for the 30th anniversary treatment, as a two-CD set of the fighting game’s soundtrack is set for release next month, Sega announced Sunday night. Each CD…
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Link cable modes may come to Saturn homebrew games soon now that the functionality has been added to the JoEngine software development kit. Slinga spent a few weeks in late…
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On Wednesday, Psikyo Portal announced the end of sale for many of their games on the Steam platform: These include games that appeared on the SEGA Saturn such as STRIKERS…
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The Sega Saturn port of the essential 240p Test Suite is making its way closer to being feature-complete with the release of version 0.3 beta 8. Here is the download…
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The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core added the last four months’ worth of test updates to the main branch over the weekend, fixing an issue with saving games…
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If a SEGA Master System emulator and Wolfenstein 3D ports weren’t enough, VBT has now released a beta port of the Mac CD version of Flashback: The Quest for Identity…
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A new firmware for the SAROO — an optical drive emulator cartridge for the Saturn — is making waves for its new features as well as its caveats. The firmware…
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A new video uploaded today shows impressive progress on a fan effort to recreate Tomb Raider 2 on the Sega Saturn, with most of the game’s levels said to be…
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A classic RPG with a unique Saturn port gets new life for English speakers now that a fan has patched the DOS script for Wizardry VI into the Japan-only console…
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As promised, Forever Entertainment showed a demo of its upcoming Panzer Dragoon Zwei Remake at the 2025 Tokyo Game Show. On Sept. 25, the company posted footage of the demo…
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Late last week Team Sakura Brazil released a fan translation for Magic Knight Rayearth, making the beloved Saturn-exclusive action RPG fully playable in Portuguese. The patch can be found here….
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Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake — it has been in the works for roughly seven years. Forever Entertainment and MegaPixel Studio announced remakes for the first two Panzer Dragoon games…
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Taisen Netplay has reached its public beta, opening up a whole new avenue of online play for Dreamcast fans. Taisen Netplay is a tunneling script that leverages the signal from…
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New firmware for Terraonion’s MODE optical drive emulator released Wednesday to fix outstanding issues with the Saturn and add features to the Dreamcast. Firmware version 1.05 R3 is the first…
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The top video game analyst for market information company Circana posted top 20 charts that give a glimpse into the performance of Sega Saturn games in the U.S. Mat Piscatella,…
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There’s a new way to fix a broken joint in the Saturn twin stick controller thanks to a fan-made design for 3D printers. Shadowmask, known more in the Saturn community…
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Game saving is broken for anyone using the latest stable Saturn core after the main MiSTer branch was updated last week. Alexey Melnikov, aka Sorgelig, the father of the MiSTer project,…
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A new version of Saturn emulator SSF was released last week, making minor fixes to get a couple games running and improve audio recording. It comes after a more major…
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New firmware was released Sunday for the Fenrir Lite optical drive emulator for Sega Saturn a month after the device’s debut to address problems that didn’t exist for earlier models….
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Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru, the Saturn run-n-gun infamous for being one of the most expensive on the aftermarket, now has an English translation patch thanks to a fan who’s new to…
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Another Sega Saturn game is getting re-released on modern platforms — and this time, it’s bundled with a new entry in its series. Taito announced Tuesday that Bubble Bobble: Sugar…
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Dragon Ball Z: The Legend English Translation version 1.0 — a patch two years in the making — dropped on SegaXtreme this morning. You can download the patch here! This…
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An in-progress patch for an English translation of Sword & Sorcery, a 1996 JRPG by Microcabin, was added to the SegaXtreme extreme resources section today! This patch, which is translating…
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Yep, you heard that right! You can now play Mario Kart 64 on the SEGA Dreamcast! It’s thanks to jnmartin84, who’s already worked on ports of Doom 64 and Wipeout….
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The source code for the Saturn version of Lobotomy Software’s first-person shooter engine was uploaded to GitHub and the Internet Archive last Saturday. Called the SlaveDriver engine, it powered three…
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Two romhacking projects look to bring quality of life changes and audio options to Sunsoft’s cult-classic Sega Saturn JRPG, Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean. Albert Odyssey is a rather standard…
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Taki Udon, known for the MiSTer Pi and the upcoming SuperStation One, announced Wednesday that their FPGA devices support loading Sega Saturn discs with the SuperDock add-on. Added preliminary support…
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The Saturn MiSTer core has passed all currently known tests, according to one of the people who works on it, representing how closely it replicates the functionality of an original…
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The Android version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro now supports RetroAchievements, the service’s community manager announced Saturday. “We have an exciting new partnership to announce to you!” said the community…
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KoolFiller released an English text/dub hack for the NTSC version of Keio Flying Squadron 2 last month over on SEGAXTREME. This translation patch takes almost all the PAL-exclusive English text…
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Here’s a quick look at some of the things the Saturn community has been talking about this week. Retro Achievements coming to Yaba Sanshiro Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto posted on social…
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The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore today. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being…