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Nine-Player Chaos on First NetLink Night
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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Saturn News Roundup: Sakura Wars 2 Translation, Rhea/Phoebe Organizer, SegaXtreme Entries Roll In
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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SegaXtreme Homebrew Showcase Deadline Just Four Weeks Away
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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Slinga’s 12-Player Disasteroids Goes Online!
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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Indie Developer Porting Neo Geo Shmup to Saturn
[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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Frogbull Breakthrough Demo Paves the Way for Sequenced Music in Homebrew Saturn Games
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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Homebrew Developer Ports Celeste Classic to Sega Saturn
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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Saturn News Roundup: Homebrew Updates, RetroConnection Fest, New Saturn Merch
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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Saturn Tomb Raider 2 – Playable Demo Out Now!
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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Frogbull Recreates Minecraft on Saturn
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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Vigilant Paradise Dev Talks About His Solo Homebrew Journey
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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XL2 Demonstrates Raytracing on the Saturn
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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Vigilant Paradise Update Addresses Bugs, Difficulty
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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Vigilant Paradise, a New Homebrew Saturn FPS, Flies Under the Radar
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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Star Fox 64 Barrel Rolls onto the SEGA Dreamcast
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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Saturn News Roundup: YZB SAROO Firmware, Homemade Mini Saturn, Dragon Ball at Dev Game Show
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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Announcing the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase
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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Fan Finishes Port of wipEout to Dreamcast
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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New Beta of 240p Test Suite on Saturn Adds Audio, Controller Tests
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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VBT Releases Beta Port of Mac CD Flashback for SEGA Saturn
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 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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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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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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Saturn Online Gets Matchmaking Server
“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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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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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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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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Mario Kart 64 on SEGA Dreamcast?! | First Look at the Latest Homebrew Port by jnmartin84
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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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…
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Art Festival to Include Saturn Homebrew Game Red Moon: Lost Days
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…
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Seniriu: The Saturn Adventure Made Alongside a Homebrew Dev Kit
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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New Rhea/Phoebe SD Card Management Tool Released
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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Motor Mayhem, Gundam, Ring Library Win SegaXtreme Homebrew Contest
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…
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Saturn Dragon Ball Homebrew Beat ‘Em Up Revealed
The Brazilian developer and retro YouTuber NaiSan (aka Nai Adventure) posted in the SHIRO! Discord server on Tuesday evening a glimpse of his in-development Sega Saturn homebrew, a beat ‘em…
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Impressive WIP Homebrew Gets First Update Since 2021!
Noah and the Poohloudies just got its first update (and it’s a BIG one) in over four years, after hitting a dead end with the previous game engine. This time…