Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Expansion Hack: Metal Black
The Saturn version of Metal Black is a port of the 1991 Taito arcade game. In its story, Earth is suffering under an uneasy truce with a hostile alien force….
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Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Under the Microscope: Dungeon Master Nexus
Dungeon Master Nexus was a Japanese Saturn exclusive, but through the magic of fan translation patches, you can play it in English. This patch sparked some renewed interest in the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Cheat Codes, Debugger Found in Fighters Megamix — Plus Evidence of Street Fighter Characters
Cheat codes, a debug screen and evidence of cut characters in Fighters Megamix have been revealed after a hacker unearthed them Thursday. Just a week after finding secrets in Fighting…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
New Costume, Debug Screen Discovered in Fighting Vipers
The Japanese version of Sega Saturn fighting game Fighting Vipers famously has more unlockables than the U.S. and even PAL versions. More unlockable characters, unlockable portraits — or different unlockable…
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News Roundup for the Week of April 29
From new homebrew efforts and cheat code discoveries to FPGA clones and a little Sega history you may not have known about, there were quite a few headlines Saturn fans…
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Minor New Cheat Code Discovered for Dragon Force
Exciting news today as a new cheat code is discovered in the North American version of Dragon Force! Unfortunately, the newly discovered code doesn’t appear to work on the Japanese…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Cheat Code Discovered to Enable Shinobi Legions’ Debug Mode
Saturn hacker Bo Bayles is at it again — he’s found another previously unknown cheat code, this time for Shinobi Legions. It activates a debug mode, but you’ll want to…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Clockwork Knight 2 Cheat Code Found That Unlocks First Game
For 28 years, North American owners of Saturn sidescrolling platformer Clockwork Knight 2 have had an entire extra game on their discs and never knew it. That changed on Christmas…
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Pseudo Saturn Kai Gets a Massive Update
The team behind the most widely used Sega Saturn softmod released a significant update to cap off 2023. Pseudo Saturn Kai V6.541 comes to the Saturn scene after about two…
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Is Daytona NetLink Edition Really Based on Japan’s Circuit Edition?
It’s common knowledge that there are four different releases of Daytona on the Saturn — the original 1995 port made by AM2 that released worldwide, AM3’s Championship Circuit Edition that…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
New Debug Features Found in Nights into Dreams
Software engineer Bo Bayles has spent the last couple years plumbing the code of his favorite Saturn game, Burning Rangers, for secret art assets, passwords and more. SHIRO! last checked…
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New Cheats Discovered in Shining the Holy Ark
You never know what secrets continue to lurk in Sega Saturn games, even after nearly 30 years. This week saw new secrets come to light, as one industrious Shining Force…
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Saturn Virtua Racing “super secret cheat code” works
SHIRO! SHOW Recap Since interviewing Chuck Tolman for my Virtua Racing video, a super secret loomed over my soul. Tolman told me and Patrick Traynor about a cheat code never…