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…
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The original wipEout has sped onto the Dreamcast now that a fan developer has ported the futuristic racer to Sega’s sixth-generation console. “Here’s the first release,” developer jnmartin84 said on…
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“Hang-On GP went by in a flash, though something tells me that the tinnitus-like buzz of the motor won’t leave me anytime soon!“ — Gregori Rasputin The SEGA Saturn SHIRO!…
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Miniature cars hit the streets — or rather, the tabletop — in Micro Motor Mayhem, the newest Saturn homebrew game. Developer JBeretta, known for last year’s SegaXtreme Game Contest original…
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The March SHIRO! Monthly Community Challenge will need you to hang on tight!!! It’s time to once again bust out those Racing Controllers because this polygonal take on the classic…
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Much of the northern hemisphere may be in a deep freeze, but the Saturn scene’s always hot. Here’s a look at some of the recent stories fans are talking about….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The earliest references to cheat codes for Hang-On GP1 that I found were in the 1996-02 issue of Computer and Videos Games Magazine. They knew about two of them: Codes…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The Dream On: Volume 7 demo disc has a “rolling demo” of Metropolis Street Racer that’s not normally playable. I made a patch that lets you take…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
American and European Saturn owners didn’t get to play Genki’s Tokyo Highway Battle — it only came out for the PlayStation in those regions. A Saturn version was published in…
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Sega’s honoring the 30th anniversary of Sega Rally Championship’s arcade release with a set of music CDs featuring the game’s original soundtrack as well as an arranged one. The company’s…
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The big winner in SHIRO!’s Community Challenge Event for July, which saw the nearly two dozen participants chasing the fastest times in a combination of Sega Saturn racers “High Velocity”…
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Over Jump Rally is a project by a single independent developer to recreate the legendary Sega Rally. So far Alessandro Schiassi, has shared his work on remaking the iconic Forest…
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Our SHIRO! Community Challenge for July 2024 is underway, as several members drift their way to prizes and the title of “TOUGE KING” in our latest High Velocity Mountain Racing…
Best Of Saturn
We are living in the Great Saturn Renaissance… Kingdom Grand Prix, the Japan-only shmup/racing game hybrid, has been translated to English! The King has had enough of decades of conflict…
SHIRO! PODCAST
SaturnDave is joined by fellow SHIRO! Nick (PandaMonium) to discuss his latest documentary on Sega Rally Championship along with James & Dan of the SegaGuys. YouTube: Podbean:
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Anyone who knows me, knows I love Sega Rally on the Saturn. In fact, it’s not just my favourite game on the system; it’s my favourite game ever. And while I…
PandaMonium Reviews
At long last, let us sink our teeth into the rich history of an incredible racing game. Featuring a wealth of archived video, translated interviews and original source material, this…
Best Of Saturn
A man with a reputation and a mission, you are the Gale Racer! Released to Japanese gamers in 1994, Gale Racer is based on the 1991 SEGA arcade game Rad…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge, an early Saturn exclusive that shipped with a two-player mode, could have let even more people in on the fun if developer Cave enabled a…
Best Of Saturn
Part of a long-running series of Genki-developed racers, Tokyo Highway Battle ’97 / Shutokou Drift ’97 is a racing game through the streets of Tokyo. Race in six different cars…
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Daytona USA is arguably the most important racing game ever made, introducing a level of visual fidelity and fluidity beyond anything in the arcade scene at that time. SEGA’s Model…
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SHIRO! waved the checkered flag on its inaugural Monthly Community Challenge for February with nearly 300 SEGA Touring Car Championship times submitted. Four different community members took the top spots…
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To the uninitiated, SEGA Touring Car Championship was an unconventional arcade racer, based on the German DTM, crafted by a handpicked team of AM3 developers and released to the world…