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A fan has worked to translate Saturn tactical RPG Riglordsaga 2 into English over the last year, but he won’t see his project to completion now that he’s succumbed to…
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In this edition I’m examining the two Lode Runner games for Saturn: The Legend Returns and Extra. Although the series was originally developed in the West, it was particularly successful…
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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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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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Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro features better touch screen controls in its mobile versions after recent updates by its developer, Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto. On social media, DevMiyax posted a video showing…
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A summer 1997 release in Japan, Aorn’s Rabbit is a 2D versus fighting game similar in feel to the Street Fighter 2 series. The visuals are very colorful and the…
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Ultraman: Legendary Giant of Light is a fighting game for Saturn. It’s one of five Ultraman titles for Saturn (two games and three media discs), and one of two Saturn…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Yuna Remix– Mobile Suit Gundam #BestOfSaturn– The Top Sega Saturn Stories of 2025 …
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Last year, we celebrated the Saturn’s 30th anniversary in the West. Even after three decades, Sega’s fifth-generation console and the fan community that loves it continue to make headlines. Here…
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Note: The #BestOfSaturn posts will be a little bit different for 2026. I won’t cover any original retail games, and that means pausing the Gold and Silver as well. Instead,…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Dragon Force II– The SHIRO! Community Hits the Slopes this January in Zap! Snowboarding…
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In this edition: Yuna Remix has a sound/movie/image test mode that can be accessed with a special controller from Hudson. The game also has another hidden menu with some cool…
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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…
Best Of Saturn
Rayman first hit the Atari Jaguar in September 1995 before being ported to the Saturn with slightly rebalanced gameplay and a superior Red Book soundtrack for a November release. The…
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Embrace the winter season with the SHIRO! community this January! We are kicking off 2026 by hitting the slopes in the snow-shredding Sega Saturn exclusive, Zap! Snowboarding Trix ’97. The…
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The original Dragon Force was very well-received in the West. It sold a bunch of copies and was praised by critics. But the sequel, published in 1998 in Japan, wasn’t…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – Under the Microscope: Kyuutenkai– Irréel #BestOfSaturnGold– Saturn Fans Get Christmas Gift in Delisoba Translation Patch You…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing: – ★ EDITOR’S CORNER: EP 31 — SEGA Saturn Journalism w/ Danthrax & PandaMonium Reviews– English Translation Patch…
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Saturn fans will have to fit some time for another game between playthroughs of Christmas NiGHTS after an English fan translation patch for Delisoba Deluxe released today. Exxistance uploaded the…
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The Saturn absolutely hums when in capable hands, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Irréel — a demo of the first Unreal game that was created from the…
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My favorite Japanese cheat site has a special password listed for the PlayStation version of Kyuutenkai, the Technosoft pinball game. Translated, it says: Enter KYUTENKA4S on the password screen. You’ll…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…