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Longtime Saturn homebrew coder Ervilsoft submitted their Saturn port of the infamous Flash game The World’s Hardest Game to the SegaXtreme Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. You can see SHIRO!’s…
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It seems 31 is the Saturn’s lucky number this year — not only is the West celebrating the console’s release here 31 years ago, but the SegaXtreme Showcase features 31…
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Long-term Saturn developer slinga submitted a 3.7.0 Alpha build of their Save Game Copier into the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. The SHIRO! announcement of this year’s showcase…
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[Editor’s note:] After this article was published, developers at FULLSET have confirmed effort is underway to convert the existing Joengine libraries that contain SEGA code to use the open source…
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The development team at FULLSET revealed gameplay images and footage of their in-progress “battle arena” game Overserved: Food Fighters this week — and announced that it’s set to release this…
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SHIRO!’s first scheduled NetLink Night last Friday yielded a lot of fun — and a lot of chaos. At one point, nine players on nine Saturn consoles across two continents…
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The Sega Saturn homebrew and translation scene is hoppin’ this time of year. From new games to updates to translation patches and utilities, let’s take a look at some of…
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It’s crunch time, Saturn developers: The deadline is just four weeks away for the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. That deadline is May 11, specifically — the 31st…
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Back in January 2023, Slinga released multiplayer mayhem onto Saturn in the form of Disasteroids, a 12-player Asteroids clone submitted to the 28th Anniversary Game Competition. One of many in…
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[Editor’s note: This story was updated March 29 to add Sascha’s name, clarify that Project Neon does not use WiFi for online multiplayer, add details about the cartridge prototype’s expected…
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One of my white whales in Sega Saturn homebrew game development has been sound and music. Starting out on Jo Engine, I quickly found out that the sound functions didn’t…
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A homebrew developer named En83 posted some exciting news on SegaXtreme on Friday: “Hi guys, I’ve ported Celeste Classic to the Sega Saturn. This is a port from the C…
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Here’s a quick-hit roundup of recent stories around the Sega Saturn scene. Video demonstrates Saturn sound chip calculating graphics A SegaXtreme homebrew developer named Jollyroger demonstrated that the Saturn’s audio…
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The first demo of Saturn Tomb Raider 2 is available now — grab it here! 1996 saw the release of the very first Tomb Raider, hitting the Saturn first, followed…
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A barebones recreation of Minecraft is running on Saturn thanks to homebrew developer Frogbull, and he’s already made it available for some players to try out. Frogbull revealed the project…
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Since the release of Vigilant Paradise for the Sega Saturn, we decided to reach out to its sole developer, Ricardo Campione. He reveals how he got into Saturn development, what…
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Raytracing isn’t just for modern video cards, apparently — homebrew developer XL2 is making it happen on the 31-year-old Sega Saturn. Raytracing is a technique for simulating the way light…
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An update to Saturn homebrew FPS Vigilant Paradise addresses bugs and difficulty complaints after the game’s popularity blew up two weeks ago. Riccardo Campione released version 1.001 yesterday on his…
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There is a new homebrew first-person shooter for the Sega Saturn — or rather, there has been for nearly two months. That’s because Vigilant Paradise was announced by its developer…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“Two of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while to improve the Netlink experience: 1. Make a simple matchmaking server so people don’t have to exchange public…
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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…