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Fan Patches English into Wizardry VI for Saturn
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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Panzer Dragoon Zwei Remake Demo Footage Drops
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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Magic Knight Rayearth Translated into Portuguese by Team Sakura Brazil
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 Zwei Remake Info, Images Revealed After Long Wait
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 Brings New Ways to Play Your Dreamcast Online
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 MODE Firmware Brings Fixes for Saturn, Features for Dreamcast
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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Circana Director Posts Saturn U.S. Sales Charts
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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Repair a Twin Stick with This 3D Printed Part
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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New MiSTer Main Update Breaks Saturn Game Saving
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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SSF Emulator Gets Preview Version R36
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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Fenrir Lite Gets First Firmware Update
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 Gets English Translation Patch
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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New Bubble Bobble to Include Saturn Port of Bubble Symphony
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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End of “De Minimis” Impacts U.S. Saturn Fans
This article does not in any way reflect the personal views of SHIRO! Media Group or its writers. On a separate note, this situation is evolving rapidly. Please take into…
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After 2 Years of Work, Dragon Ball Z: The Legend is Now Playable in English
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 English Patch for Sword & Sorcery Is Out Now
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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Mario Kart 64 Released on Dreamcast!
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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Lobotomy Software’s Engine Code Uploaded to GitHub
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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Pair of Romhacks Show Albert Odyssey Some Love
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’s SuperStation One Dock Will Support Saturn Disc Loading
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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Saturn MiSTer Core Now Passes Every Test
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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Android Version of Yaba Sanshiro Adds RetroAchievements
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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Keio Flying Squadron 2’s NTSC Version Now in English
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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Saturn News Roundup: Achievements, Myths Debunked, Japanese Sales Numbers
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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New Fenrir Lite Model Unveiled
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…
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Translation Project Updates: Wizardry, Lunar, Yu-No
There have never been as many Saturn fan translation patches in progress as there are now. Considering that, it can be hard to keep track of their progress. You can…
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New Patch Fixes Virtua Racing Replay Music Bug
Time Warner’s recreation of Virtua Racing on the Saturn is known for its great music, but it’s notoriously silent while replaying a completed race. It’s not supposed to be, though….
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Satiator Menu Kai Receives Multi-Disc Support in Upcoming Version
Cafe-alpha continues their decade-long quest to make playing games on real Saturn hardware more accessible and affordable. A June 22 update on their Patreon page detailed some features present in…
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City Connection Launches Farland Saga 1 & 2 Saturn Tribute
Two more Saturn games are available on modern platforms after City Connection released Farland Saga 1 and 2 yesterday. Unfortunately, the publisher made no effort to localize either game, which…
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Super Mario 64 Dreamcast Port Update: Renewed Effort Making Great Strides
The Dreamcast homebrew community continues to wow the retro gaming sphere with yet another port of a 1990s classic to Sega’s sixth-generation hardware. Falco Girgis, a developer with credits including…
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Leaderboards Added to Yaba Sanshiro on Mobile
Leaderboards have been added to the Android and iOS versions of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro, giving players a way to compare their fastest times in a pair of games via…
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Dragon Ball Beat ‘Em Up Homebrew Gets Progress Update
The Dragon Ball homebrew game that was revealed last month has made more progress, according to an update given by its developer, NaiSan. NaiSan posted in the SHIRO! Discord server…
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Saturn Core Updates Added to MiSTer’s Main Branch
The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core added the last five months’ worth of test updates to the main branch yesterday, making them more accessible to users of the…
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WUXI ODE/CD Switcher Now Available
Back on April 30, TZMWX announced the open source availability of his WUXI Drive Switcher project to GitHub for free public use. WUXI is an optical drive channel switcher for…
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Mario Kart 64 Receiving a Fan Port to Dreamcast
This past week was big for Mario Kart fans old and new with the release of the latest entry in the series — Mario Kart World — and the surprise…