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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 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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Sega Saturn ODE Comparison– Under the Microscope Presents: The Shining the Holy Ark Rhythm Challenge– DecAthlete #BestOfSaturnSilver– Mario…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Omakase! Savers is an adventure game for the Saturn that was published by Sega in 1996. It tells the story of three girls who stumble upon an ancient secret that…
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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…
SEGAGuys Spotlight
Guess who’s back, back again … that’s right, the Dreamcast community’s very own Slim Shady is back yet again with another project. Jnmartin84, the man behind the ports of Doom…
Best Of Saturn
Developed by AM3 for the ST-V “Titan” arcade board and then ported to the Saturn for a summer 1996 release, DecAthlete (Athlete Kings in Europe) is an Olympic-style sports game…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Shining the Holy Ark, the 1996 RPG for Saturn, has the strangest hidden feature I’ve ever seen. It has unused code for a sound matching minigame that works like this:…
Guide
The Sega Saturn is one of the MOST supported retro consoles when it comes its selection of available ODEs and Flash Carts! However, with so many differences between the available…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Mario Kart 64 Receiving a Fan Port to Dreamcast– Under the Microscope: Strikers 1945 & Sengoku Blade– WUXI…
News
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…
Best Of Saturn
Imagine heading to China to learn about the nine mythical dragons, only to discover one has reawakened… and he’s evil! As the foreigner Ken, your task in Imagineer’s 1997 graphic…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Strikers 1945 (Saturn and PlayStation) and Sengoku Blade (Saturn), which are both shooting games from Psikyo. In wrote previously about patches for the Saturn versions…
News
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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Just Got a SEGA Saturn? Play These 10 Games First!– Curtains Drop on May’s Jung Rhythm Community Challenge–…
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SHIRO! already knows Saturn games are art, and now an arts festival agrees. Red Moon: Lost Days, the first commercial Sega Saturn homebrew game, has been accepted into the ninth…
Best Of Saturn
A late 1997 Japan-only release, Tactics Formula is a self-described tactical board game. It’s a racing game but rather than controlling your vehicle in real time, you select moves in…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Gunbird, the vertical shooter from Psikyo. I found four new cheat codes for it: The Test mode menu. NoDeath mode, which makes you invincible. Skip…
Community
“The May Community Challenge boogied on by, and now Jung Rhythm might as well have been a fever dream! It’s easy to lose track of time when you are getting…
SEGAGuys Spotlight
Of all the systems SEGA released, none has had a redemption arc quite like the SEGA Saturn. For years it was the odd one out – misunderstood, overlooked, or just…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Zen Nihon Pro Wres Featuring Virtua– Mahou no Janshi: Poe Poe Poemy #BestOfSaturn– Advanced V.G.,…
Editorial
A new Sega Saturn-inspired indie racer is set to launch off the starting grid, and it looks to be something really special. LINEAR 直線的 S is the first in a…
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Modern platforms got two new Saturn games Wednesday when City Connection released Advanced V.G. and Steam-Heart’s — even in the West, for which there was no formal announcement. They’re part…
Best Of Saturn
Mahjong games were plentiful in Japan, and this 1995 Imagineer-published title gives the strategic game the “18+” yellow-label treatment. Mahou no Janshi: Poe Poe Poemy boils down to a riichi…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Zen Nihon Pro Wres Featuring Virtua is was produced by Sega and Scarab. As the name suggests, it’s a Japanese pro wrestling game that features two Virtua Fighter characters. The…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Motor Mayhem, Gundam, Ring Library Win SegaXtreme Homebrew Contest– New Rhea/Phoebe SD Card Management Tool Released– Under the…
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2025 continues to be a renaissance of sorts for Sega’s Dreamcast with yet another online server brought back to life by the fan community. Only a week ago the Dreamcast…
Spotlight
A former Bethesda employee by the name of Michael Matthews once caught the attention of a Sega Saturn Facebook group. He posted pictures of the development Saturn console they used…
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Meduza Team has been busy in the last several months implementing and testing frames per second (FPS) unlock codes for Sega Saturn titles. This effort was made public Dec. 29…
Best Of Saturn
Daytona USA roared into gamers’ Saturns at launch in the West as the most hotly anticipated arcade conversion of early 1995. SEGA’s promise of “arcade in the home” was fully…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition we’re analyzing Asuka 120% Limited Burning Fest. for Saturn. This game, like the rest of the ones in the Asuka 120% series, didn’t get released outside of…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– English Patch for D&D Tower of Doom Is Out Now– Under the Microscope: Fighting Vipers Taikenban– Shin Megami…
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Download Rhea/Phoebe Sorter:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Rhea-Phoebe-Sorter Back in 2015, hardware engineer Deunan released his Rhea and Phoebe ODEs (optical drive emulators) for the Sega Saturn. These two represent the first of their kind…
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Micro Motor Mayhem, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Saturn Ring Library are the big winners in the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition, as organizer Emerald Nova announced today…