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Airs Adventure, an “it’s so bad it’s good” Sega Saturn RPG exclusive to Japan, now has an English translation patch thanks to a team of fans. SnowyAria, who translated the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Andretti Racing on Saturn has some well-known Easter eggs that involve putting in special player names. I found eight more! These show pictures of the development staff,…
Best Of Saturn
Sankyo Fever, hitting store shelves at the height of pachinko popularity in 1997, is the first in the Fever series of Saturn releases. A pachinko simulator, the game features four…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– New Firmware Updates for Fenrir, SAROO– Under the Microscope: Steam-Heart’s– Tomb Raider 2 #BestOfSaturn– Star Fox 64 Barrel…
SHIRO! PODCAST
On this episode of Editor’s Corner, we discuss the past, present, and future of journalism in the SEGA Saturn sphere. You can watch it on YouTube, too: Follow us…
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A new test shows the SAROO cartridge, a low-cost Saturn optical drive emulator, loads data inconsistently, possibly revealing the source of audio bugs, crashes and other glitches that users have…
Best Of Saturn
“The Saturn can’t handle the additional complexities of Tomb Raider 2”… so said Core Design in the late ’90s, but no one told modern hero RetroRaider John. Hot on the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Steam-Heart’s is a game for Saturn that combines passable shoot-em-up gameplay with NSFW anime scenes. The visuals are less explicit in the Saturn version than the PC-98 original, but some…
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Two Sega Saturn optical drive emulators got firmware updates over the weekend: the Fenrir and the SAROO. A photo posted by Pjaska of Fenrir Loader Kai failing to load a…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Chaos Control– Announcing the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase– Digital Monsters Ver. S:…
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An English Improvement patch for the Sega Saturn exclusive 3D platformer Willy Wombat released today! Download the patch here. While Willy Wombat has long been considered playable with little to…
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“Ever since I was a kid I yearned for something like this, to share my love for this beautiful game with the world and encourage others to play it. There…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, I’m examining Planet Joker, the 1997 shooting game for Saturn. This game doesn’t have a whole lot of fans because (a) it was never released outside of…
Best Of Saturn
SEGA AGES was a single release in the West, but in Japan, it was an entire series of classics from SEGA’s past. Phantasy Star Collection, released in 1998, featured the…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates for OUR YEARLY BLACK FRIDAY STREAM! Scouring the internet for the best retro deals! You can watch the show on YouTube, too: Follow…
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The Fighting Vipers soundtrack released on CD and streaming services Thursday to commemorate the arcade game’s 30th anniversary. It appears the album is being sold only through Japanese retailers, including Beep, Amazon…
Review
The Renaissance Period We are living through a Saturn renaissance. Buckets of titles previously locked away in Japan are seeing new audiences, thanks to the herculean efforts of small but…
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Taito launched a new entry in its Bubble Bobble series today on modern platforms — and it includes the Saturn version of Bubble Symphony. Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons is available…
Best Of Saturn
Late 1998 saw Bandai release Digital Monsters Ver. S: Digimon Tamers exclusively in Japan. An evolution of sorts of the Tamagotchi concept, players hatch, care for, scold, clean up after,…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Chaos Control is an on-rails shooting game from Infogrames. It was initially released in 1995 for Mac, PC, Philips CD-i, PlayStation, and Saturn. A second “remixed” version was released for…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Atlantis: The Lost Tales– Radiant Silvergun #BestOfSaturnGold– Version of SegaXtreme Now Viewable on Saturn’s NetLink…
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NetLink users have a new place to browse now that a version of the SegaXtreme forum is compatible with the PlanetWeb browser. Earlier this month, Reye created a mirror of…
Best Of Saturn
By 1998, the Saturn was gasping for life in the West. Releases had slowed to a trickle before drying up for good by year’s end. Game over… but don’t tell…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Blast Chamber– Devicereign #BestOfSaturn– Tests Continue to Pay Dividends for Saturn MiSTer Core Development You…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Atlantis: The Lost Tales, the Myst-like adventure/puzzle game. The original DOS version was a hit in Europe. But the console port was not terribly well…
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The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core continues to use custom tests to refine the timings between emulated circuits in his implementation of the console in the FPGA. Over…
Best Of Saturn
A fusion of 2/3 visual novel and 1/3 strategy RPG, Devicereign from Starlight Marry Corp hit the Saturn in early 1999. Three high school friends are suddenly accosted by a…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Blast Chamber is a 1996 game from Attention To Detail, a UK studio that was active from 1990 through 2002. It was released on both PlayStation and Saturn. Some cheat…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Krazy Ivan– Whizz #BestOfSaturn– Hacker Adds PS1 Translation, More to Meduza Team’s Symphony of the…
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A new patch for the Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night swaps in the English script and voiceovers from the PS1 version to an existing patch that used…
Best Of Saturn
Whizz is a Flair Software isometric platformer that first saw life on the DOS, Amiga, and CD32 back in 1994 before being ported to Saturn and releasing in Japan and…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Here’s an excerpt from the August 1997 issue of Ultra Game Players: Finally, THQ, who was originally going to publish several PlayStation conversions of Psygnosis’ games, has cancelled those efforts…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Destruction Derby 2 Saturn Prototype Released– Under the Microscope: Soviet Strike– Galactic Attack #BestOfSaturnGold– Limited Run Games Announces…