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Just yesterday, April 28th, JoEngine author, Johannes Fetz, announced a significant update to the Sega Saturn Software Development Kit that now includes support for Voxels. New version of #JoEngine for…
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SHIRO! announced its next Community Challenge in May will feature two titles in the Digital Pinball series: Last Gladiators Ver. 9.7 and Necronomicon. Co-organizer Gregori Rasputin said May’s Community Challenge…
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I was never really great when it came to video games. As the youngest of nine, my brothers and sisters always seemed to have a leg up on me…
News
Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute released worldwide Wednesday on digital storefronts as well as in physical form in Japan. It’s the latest in a line of emulated Saturn games…
Best Of Saturn
For such a huge franchise, it’s surprising that Mega Man X3 only saw Saturn release in Japan and in Europe. Perhaps it being a straightforward, visually bordered port of the…
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English-speaking Saturn fans are dancing for joy now that there’s a translation patch for the console’s only full-fledged music rhythm game, Jung Rhythm. It was made by a team that…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- New Fan Book ‘Unofficial Saturn Collection’ Available Now- SHIRO! Unveils New Community Challenge Schedule, Crowns March’s Winners
– Magic School Lunar #BestOfSaturn
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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
Sandwiched between the two mainline games, Lunar Magic School is a remake of the Game Gear original, releasing exclusively on Saturn in Japan in late 1997 with obvious audiovisual enhancements….
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Not long after crowning the Steep Slope Sliders champions April 1 as part of its ongoing Community Challenge series, SHIRO! announced changes to future iterations of the popular event. The…
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Looking for some light reading material about your favorite 32-bit console? A new fan-made coffee table book has you covered. “The Unofficial Sega Saturn Collection” is a 290-page paperback that…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Yaba Sanshiro Applies to Apple’s App Store- Virtua Cop #BestOfSaturn
– Dan the Mega Driver Visits Japan
– MiSTer Main Branch Update for Saturn Core Fixes Gouraud Shadin…
Community
The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The…
Editorial
What’s up, Sega fans? It’s Dan the Mega Driver of The SEGAGuys here and I’ve just come back a vacation in Japan. It was a trip we took for family…
Best Of Saturn
A hugely important game in Saturn history, 1995’s Virtua Cop was the first of Christmas 1995’s “Big Three” arcade conversions meant to showcase that the Saturn had what it took…
News
Saturn emulation may be coming to iOS devices after Apple changed their policy on emulators. Apple updated its App Store submission guidelines Friday to include rules for “game emulators” applying…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari #BestOfSaturn- I Bought a SAROO…
– ‘The First Slam Dunk’ Blu-Ray Set for June in U.S.
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Critically acclaimed anime film The First Slam Dunk is coming to Blu-ray in the U.S. on June 25, its distributor announced Monday. GKIDS posted a trailer for the release on…
Editorial
” And there will be… sorrow SAROO! “-Bad Religion There may be a few folks scratching their heads at this article’s title thinking, ‘What exactly is a… SAROO?’ If this…
Best Of Saturn
Enix published the graphic adventure Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari / Tale of the Island of the Seven Winds exclusively on Japanese Saturns in late 1997. With gorgeous hand-drawn visuals,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- BONUS: “Prototype Consoles” – Adam Koralik’s Panel at Game On Expo (with SHIRO!)- Parodius #BestOfSaturn
– New Version of X-Men on Saturn Adds Playable Storm, Three-Pla…
SHIRO Shorts!
Exciting news today as a new cheat code is discovered in the North American version of Dragon Force! Unfortunately, the newly discovered code doesn’t appear to work on the Japanese…
News
Saturn gameplay got a bit prettier for users of RetroTINK 4K video upscaler last month thanks to new firmware that automatically detects the resolution that games output. On Feb. 2,…
Community
Homebrewer hotrodx released an update to their Sega Saturn recreation of 1992 Konami arcade beat-em-up X-Men last week. Hotrodx distributed version 0.2 via a Mega.nz link in a YouTube video…
Best Of Saturn
Konami’s Parodius saw Saturn release in Japan and in Europe in late 1995 — a planned North American release was ultimately cancelled. A side-scrolling shmup consisting of two older Parodius…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Daytona USA on the SEGA Saturn – You’ve Been Lied To!- Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business #BestOfSaturn
– Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers English Translation FIRST LOOK
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SHIRO! PODCAST
Adam is joined by Dave & Pat to discuss a couple of odd prototypes, the SEGA Pluto and the Atari Jaguar turned Dental Camera by Imagin. We also explore the topic of gaming and collecting trends and the psychology behind them.
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Saturn hacker Bo Bayles is at it again — he’s found another previously unknown cheat code, this time for Shinobi Legions. It activates a debug mode, but you’ll want to…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Original Recording: March 2018
In this interview, SHIRO!, Nick Broadway (aka PandaMonium) sits down with Robert Leyland of Jumpin’ Jack Software to shed light on what it was like developing for SEGA Saturn before and after the surprise North American…
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…
Community
On this latest episode of the SEGAGuys‘ pod, Dan, James, Dave and Nick discuss the Western SEGA Saturn library. Is it underrated? Why is it perceived so negatively, even today?…
Spotlight
The Saturn was represented well at the Game On Expo in Phoenix, Ariz., over the weekend as SHIRO!’s own SaturnDave and TraynoCo hosted a panel, manned a booth and more….
SHIRO! PODCAST
SaturnDave & TraynoCo are joined by Adam Koralik to convince folks that “Saturn IS our Future!”
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Daytona USA on the SEGA Saturn – You’ve Been Lied To!- Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business #BestOfSaturn
– Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers English Translation FIRST LOOK
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SHIRO!’s own SaturnDave and TraynoCo spend most of their time playing and hyping Saturn, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love Sega’s tiny arcade-in-a-box, the Dreamcast, too! They joined Brian…