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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat– Overserved, Project Neon Pre-Orders Open for Saturn, Dreamcast!– Kingdom Grand…
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If you’ve gone to our site in the last few days, you may have noticed a new tab in our menu bar: After much demand for a more permanent place…
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The Saturn MiSTer core’s most requested feature is finally here: the FPGA device’s LEDs now mimic an actual Saturn’s power and disc read lights. OK, maybe that isn’t the most…
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Two more light-gun-compatible games, Chaos Control and Die Hard Trilogy, have received quality-of-life patches thanks to privateye. Released patches for Chaos Control and Die Hard Trilogy on Saturn that :…
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In our quest to highlight Saturn fan translations this year, it’s also worth mentioning the handful of English activation patches available. Some Japanese games have English text baked right in,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Policenauts #BestOfSaturn– Prototype of Unknown, Unreleased Saturn Game ‘Pyramid’ Preserved– PandaMonium’s ‘Digging for Isix’ Premieres May 9– The…
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[Editor’s note:] After this article was published, developers at FULLSET have confirmed effort is underway to convert the existing Joengine libraries that contain SEGA code to use the open source…
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The cheat sites have had codes listed for MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat since the Clinton administration. But do they have everything? I spent an unreasonable amount of time with…
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Culdcept the First’s Western publisher provided new details Thursday in an English trailer that announced release dates and open preorders for the game’s console versions. Clear River Games’ trailer says…
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The SHIRO! community will dust off their Arcade Racers — and accompanying securing devices — in anticipation of the upcoming Community Challenge. Starting May 1 and running the entirety of…
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My latest video is finally done. Digging for Isix: A Digital Pictures History plunges into the story of this well-known full motion video company. This project originally started as a…
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Last month, sharp-eyed Saturn fan Cerbero spotted an auction listing for a CD labeled Pyramid: Sega Saturn (3-26-97). It’s always intriguing when a build of an unreleased game surfaces. But…
Best Of Saturn
We’ve been blessed with dozens of Saturn translations over recent years, but today we give a nod to one of the trailblazers: the 2016 fan translation of Hideo Kojima’s Policenauts….
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Layer Section II– Nine-Player Chaos on First NetLink Night– Shining Force 3 #BestOfSaturn– Multiplayer Indie…
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Sega unveiled a new initiative this morning to celebrate the anniversaries of some of its properties, including several that started life on the Saturn. Sega launched a website and a…
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The development team at FULLSET revealed gameplay images and footage of their in-progress “battle arena” game Overserved: Food Fighters this week — and announced that it’s set to release this…
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Camelot Software Planning unleashed the massively ambitious Shining Force 3 trilogy in Japan over a 12-month span starting December 1997. The trilogy comprises three SRPG “scenarios” featuring 30+ battles apiece,…
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SHIRO!’s first scheduled NetLink Night last Friday yielded a lot of fun — and a lot of chaos. At one point, nine players on nine Saturn consoles across two continents…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Mighty Hits– SegaXtreme Homebrew Showcase Deadline Just Four Weeks Away– Sakura Wars 2 #BestOfSaturn– Saturn…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Today we’re looking at Layer Section II, also known as RayStorm. The Saturn port came out in Japan in 1997, but it wasn’t released in North America or Europe (the…
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Hi everyone! We’ve got a new perk for all paid Patreon members: a digital magazine using all the stories we posted to the website in March! It’s attached to this…
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Exxistance does it again and releases a fan translation based on the anime and manga series Ninku. The fighting game follows the frog-looking character Fūsuke, who is immensely powerful and…
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An old project to translate Saturn strategy RPG Langrisser III into English is being revived this month — by two people in unrelated, simultaneous efforts. What’s more, neither person originally…
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The Sega Saturn homebrew and translation scene is hoppin’ this time of year. From new games to updates to translation patches and utilities, let’s take a look at some of…
Best Of Saturn
Following the mega-success of the first game, SEGA and Red Company unleashed Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die on Japanese Saturn players in April 1998. Set two years after…
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It’s crunch time, Saturn developers: The deadline is just four weeks away for the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Homebrew Showcase. That deadline is May 11, specifically — the 31st…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Mighty Hits is a shooting gallery game made for light guns. It was developed and published by the Japanese company Altron for Saturn and PlayStation in 1996. An enhanced Special…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Virtual Casino– Dreamcast VCD Player DreamMovie Cracked, Available for All– Jinzou Ningen Hakaider, Scud: The…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Quake v0.819 – Script Editing Tool Aids Magic School Lunar Fan Translation– EMIT Vol. 1:…
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A hacker new to the Saturn scene released a patch Tuesday that translates Kyuutenkai, also known as Fantastic Pinball, into English. ShivaSaturn posted a thread on SegaXtreme talking about their…
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It has been a year since SHIRO! last covered Paul Met and Meduza Team’s development of codes to unlock the framerate in select Sega Saturn titles, and they have been…
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Sakura Wars (Sakura Taisen) was a fall 1996 release in Japan, and is best described as a visual novel, dating sim, and strategy game mashed up into one. Set in…
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Two more Saturn light-gun compatible games, Jinzou Ningen Hakaider: Last Judgement (localized as Mechanical Violator Hakaider: Last Judgement) and Scud: The Disposable Assassin, are now playable free of screen flashes…
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The Virtual Casino Community Challenge here at SHIRO! wrapped up the other day. Some of its prizes were reserved for people who successfully got to the staff credits: SHIRO! Virtual…
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UPDATE 7/10/26Congratulations to East Coast champion TheNotoriousV.D.P. for taking down West Coast champ Xiden in the USA finals! He will now be facing previous Saturn Bomberman champ Mickschen in the…