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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…
Best Of Saturn
Rayman first hit the Atari Jaguar in September 1995 before being ported to the Saturn with slightly rebalanced gameplay and a superior Red Book soundtrack for a November release. The…
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Embrace the winter season with the SHIRO! community this January! We are kicking off 2026 by hitting the slopes in the snow-shredding Sega Saturn exclusive, Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97. The…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The original Dragon Force was very well-received in the West. It sold a bunch of copies and was praised by critics. But the sequel, published in 1998 in Japan, wasn’t…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Kyuutenkai– Irréel #BestOfSaturnGold– Saturn Fans Get Christmas Gift in Delisoba Translation Patch You…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – ★ EDITOR’S CORNER: EP 31 — SEGA Saturn Journalism w/ Danthrax & PandaMonium Reviews– English Translation Patch…
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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…
Best Of Saturn
The Saturn absolutely hums when in capable hands, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Irréel — a demo of the first Unreal game that was created from the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
My favorite Japanese cheat site has a special password listed for the PlayStation version of Kyuutenkai, the Technosoft pinball game. Translated, it says: Enter KYUTENKA4S on the password screen. You’ll…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Andretti Racing on Saturn has some well-known Easter eggs that involve putting in special player names. I found eight more! These show pictures of the development staff,…
Best Of Saturn
Sankyo Fever, hitting store shelves at the height of pachinko popularity in 1997, is the first in the Fever series of Saturn releases. A pachinko simulator, the game features four…
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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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– New Firmware Updates for Fenrir, SAROO– Under the Microscope: Steam-Heart’s– Tomb Raider 2 #BestOfSaturn– Star Fox 64 Barrel…
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On this episode of Editor’s Corner, we discuss the past, present, and future of journalism in the SEGA Saturn sphere. You can watch it on YouTube, too: Follow us…
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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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On Dec. 5, yet another Nintendo 64 classic was ported to the SEGA Dreamcast by the seemingly inexhaustible Jnmartin84 and team. You can find the thorough — albeit taxing…
Best Of Saturn
“The Saturn can’t handle the additional complexities of Tomb Raider 2”… so said Core Design in the late ’90s, but no one told modern hero RetroRaider John. Hot on the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Steam-Heart’s is a game for Saturn that combines passable shoot-em-up gameplay with NSFW anime scenes. The visuals are less explicit in the Saturn version than the PC-98 original, but some…
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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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Chaos Control– Announcing the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase– Digital Monsters Ver. S:…
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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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“Ever since I was a kid I yearned for something like this, to share my love for this beautiful game with the world and encourage others to play it. There…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, I’m examining Planet Joker, the 1997 shooting game for Saturn. This game doesn’t have a whole lot of fans because (a) it was never released outside of…
Best Of Saturn
SEGA AGES was a single release in the West, but in Japan, it was an entire series of classics from SEGA’s past. Phantasy Star Collection, released in 1998, featured the…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates for OUR YEARLY BLACK FRIDAY STREAM! Scouring the internet for the best retro deals! You can watch the show on YouTube, too: Follow…
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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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The Renaissance Period We are living through a Saturn renaissance. Buckets of titles previously locked away in Japan are seeing new audiences, thanks to the herculean efforts of small but…
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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…
Best Of Saturn
Late 1998 saw Bandai release Digital Monsters Ver. S: Digimon Tamers exclusively in Japan. An evolution of sorts of the Tamagotchi concept, players hatch, care for, scold, clean up after,…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Chaos Control is an on-rails shooting game from Infogrames. It was initially released in 1995 for Mac, PC, Philips CD-i, PlayStation, and Saturn. A second “remixed” version was released for…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Atlantis: The Lost Tales– Radiant Silvergun #BestOfSaturnGold– Version of SegaXtreme Now Viewable on Saturn’s NetLink…
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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…