Best Of Saturn
A September 1997 release, Silhouette Mirage is the second Treasure game to hit the Saturn. Set in the year 2xxx, the worldwide AI known as Edo malfunctions and splits everyone…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
I know what you’re thinking: “Bo, the cheat codes for Battle Arena Toshinden Remix have already been documented! We’re already aware of how to unlock the boss characters and enable…
News
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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Last Bronx – Yaba Sanshiro Gets Save Converter, Makeover on Android – Arcana Strikes…
News
Josh Fairhurst, former owner of Limited Run Games, has released the prototype Saturn port of full-motion video game Prize Fighter onto the Internet Archive. The archive includes both the North…
Community
Let’s see your best poker face, SHIRO! community! The March Community Challenge is none other than the “Serious Fun” Virtual Casino. The Community Challenge begins March 1 and runs until…
Editorial
The above video was posted to YouTube shortly before patch v1.0.3 was released. Forever Entertainment released a free playable demo of Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake. The demo is their rendition…
News
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…
Best Of Saturn
Released at the tail end of 1997, Takara and Red Company’s Arcana Strikes is a fusion of an overhead RPG and a card-battling game. You take the role of young…
News
The developer of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro debuted an online tool this week for converting other emulators’ save files to a format his software can use. It follows an update…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– ★ EDITOR’S CORNER: EP 32 — Talk of Saturn Translations & Fan Localizations– Under the Microscope: Impact Racing–…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The Flash Sega Saturn Vol. 18 demo disc includes a preview of the Saturn port of Last Bronx, Sega AM3’s 1996 3D arcade fighting game. The preview is an “auto…
Best Of Saturn
Delisoba Deluxe was a giveaway to studio audiences (possibly, contestants) of the Japanese TBS game show Tokyo Friend Park 2. On the show, contestants engaged in various video mini games,…
News
SHIRO! community member privateye released a trio of patches over the past month to make quality-of-life improvements to the Saturn ports of arcade light-gun classics The House of the Dead,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Sound Qube– Wizardry VI #BestOfSaturn– SAROO Firmware 0.9 Addresses Race Condition Bug– Frogbull Recreates Minecraft…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Impact Racing has a hidden debug mode that’s really cool. You can tweak car settings, track parameters, and more. It’s already been documented for the PlayStation version…
SHIRO! PODCAST
We’re living in a golden age of fan community translations and localizations, and one has to wonder whether any of these amazing translation projects could have possibly been commercially viable…
News
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…
News
A new firmware update for the SAROO cartridge attempts to fix a bug that’s plagued the low-cost Saturn optical drive emulator for years. The SAROO’s creator, TPUnix, uploaded firmware version 0.9…
Best Of Saturn
The Wizardry series began way back in the early 1980s on Apple computers, being a formative attempt at bringing a Dungeons & Dragons-like experience to video games. The sixth and…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Hyper Duel & Blast Wind– Lifts Close on the SHIRO! Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97 Community…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Sound Qube is a puzzle game from Media Entertainment and Human Entertainment. There’s a very thorough description of the gameplay at Sega Retro, but in a nutshell: You’re presented with…
News
A Japan-exclusive Saturn game is getting a new English translation, but not from fans — this time, an official localization is coming from City Connection, the publisher revealed Thursday. Culdcept,…
Best Of Saturn
The fine folks at Japanese software house Altron Corp. were clearly into the good stuff, and in early 1998, they conjured up the absolutely bananas Jung Rhythm! Conceptually reminiscent of…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Breathing New Life into GDEMU With openMenu Virtual Folder Bundle– Logic Puzzle Rainbow Town #BestOfSaturn– ‘Let’s Make a…
Community
WE GOT A NEW CHARISMA! The SHIRO! community kicked off 2026 shredding the 32-bit slopes of Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97 for our first organized challenge of the year. As the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’ve got a couple of new cheat codes for some games from Technosoft: Hyper Duel, the horizontal shoot-em-up that was released for Saturn in late 1996. Blast…
Editorial
This is a continuation of a series whose first entry was in 2024 — you can read it here. Sega Saturn Memories Vol. II is dedicated to our recently departed…
Interview
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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Donate to Daniel’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-friend-daniel-and-his-family Join us today as we remember our dear friend Daniel Frederickson. You can watch the show on YouTube, too: Follow us on our social media…
Best Of Saturn
Remember that 1997 movie Face Off, where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage literally swap faces? It was done the year prior in DeathMask — an FMV adventure game converted to…
Spotlight
Here on SHIRO!, our friend Bo Bayles discovers long-lost secrets in Saturn games on a weekly basis in his Under the Microscope series. But this time, it’s my turn to…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Everyone knows that Sonic R is a racing game. But what this article presupposes is… maybe it doesn’t have to be? I’ve made a patch, the R&R mod, that changes…
Best Of Saturn
Grab your semi-automatics, your rocket propelled grenade launchers, and your trusty machetes — it’s time to “start something” on the mean streets of Logic Puzzle Rainbow Town! Logic puzzles, also…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Donate to Daniel’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-my-friend-daniel-and-his-family Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Ultraman: Legendary Giant of Light– Rabbit #BestOfSaturn– Yaba Sanshiro Improves Touch…