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On Wednesday, Psikyo Portal announced the end of sale for many of their games on the Steam platform: These include games that appeared on the SEGA Saturn such as STRIKERS…
Best Of Saturn
A late 1997 “complete version” of a 1996 PS1 release, Banpresto’s Time Bokan is a colorful vertical cute-em-up featuring all the vehicles from all the Bokan series up until that…
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The Sega Saturn port of the essential 240p Test Suite is making its way closer to being feature-complete with the release of version 0.3 beta 8. Here is the download…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
There are a bunch of games in the K-1 Fighting series. One of them was published for Saturn, Fighting Illusion Shou. It’s a 3D fighting game in which you play…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– New SAROO Firmware Is Feature-Rich — and Flawed– VBT Releases Beta Port of Mac CD Flashback for SEGA…
Community
Sign-ups are now live over on the SHIRO! Discord in the #online_tournaments chat for the upcoming online Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 For Sega Networks Tournament. This time around, to speed…
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What started back in August last year, the Worldwide SEGA Saturn SHIRO! 32-person Duke Nukem 3D Saturn NetLink Online Double Elimination Tournament has finally come to an end. We were…
Best Of Saturn
Released in time for Halloween 1997, Atlus’ Ronde is an SRPG set in the Majin Tensei universe. Strange crystal statues have been unearthed, and one comes to life as the…
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The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core added the last four months’ worth of test updates to the main branch over the weekend, fixing an issue with saving games…
SHIRO! PODCAST
DONATION LINK FOR SEGA LORD X:https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=28HQJD6UA9UZ4 Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Tennis Arena– Gekirindan #BestOfSaturn– The SHIRO! Community Collects Their…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: There’s a demo of Virtua Fighter Kids that lets you play a limited subset of the game. I patched out the limits. The demo is based on…
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If a SEGA Master System emulator and Wolfenstein 3D ports weren’t enough, VBT has now released a beta port of the Mac CD version of Flashback: The Quest for Identity…
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A new firmware for the SAROO — an optical drive emulator cartridge for the Saturn — is making waves for its new features as well as its caveats. The firmware…
Community
Jailor’s Island disappears beneath a blue horizon. Throughout the month of September, the SHIRO! community pursued the monster Bilan through treacherous castles overflowing with nerve-wracking obstacles and across parallel realities…
SHIRO! PODCAST
DONATION LINK FOR SEGA LORD X:https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=28HQJD6UA9UZ4 Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Cotton Boomerang & Terra Cresta 3D– Magic Knight Rayearth…
Best Of Saturn
A 1995 science fiction-themed shmup, Taito’s Gekirindan, or “Time Travel Shooting,” is an overhead vertical scroller in the vein of the DonPachi games. The Saturn conversion of the arcade original…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Circana Director Posts Saturn U.S. Sales Charts– New MODE Firmware Brings Fixes for Saturn, Features for Dreamcast– NiGHTS…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
GamePro said this of Tennis Arena: Hands down, Tennis Arena clinches the match as the single best tennis game for the PlayStation, delivering addictive, fast-paced gameplay. Given the pathetic competition…
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A new video uploaded today shows impressive progress on a fan effort to recreate Tomb Raider 2 on the Sega Saturn, with most of the game’s levels said to be…
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A classic RPG with a unique Saturn port gets new life for English speakers now that a fan has patched the DOS script for Wizardry VI into the Japan-only console…
Best Of Saturn
The 1998 Japan-only Saturn port of Time Commando sees you taking on the role of Stanley Opar, a special forces soldier thrust through various time periods with a goal of…
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Late last week Team Sakura Brazil released a fan translation for Magic Knight Rayearth, making the beloved Saturn-exclusive action RPG fully playable in Portuguese. The patch can be found here….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Cotton Boomerang has a well-known cheat code that grants you extra options. I found that adding a couple of buttons to it unlocks more bonus items. Terra…
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Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake — it has been in the works for roughly seven years. Forever Entertainment and MegaPixel Studio announced remakes for the first two Panzer Dragoon games…
Best Of Saturn
“I wanted to make a game about the sensation of flying…” so said then-Sonic Team head Yuji Naka. After pumping out Sonic hit after hit on the Genesis / MegaDrive,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Jungle Park: Saturn Island #BestOfSaturn– Under the Microscope: Hyper 3-D Pinball– Repair a Twin Stick with This 3D…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Eidos planned to publish Chill, a snowboarding / cryptid hunting game, for both PlayStation and Saturn in 1998. But the Saturn version never materialized, leaving Swagman as Eidos’s final Saturn…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Fenrir Lite Gets First Firmware Update– Under the Microscope: Neon Genesis Evangelion: 2nd Impression & Revolutionary Girl Utena–…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Fans Bring the Saturn to Gamescom 2025– After 2 Years of Work, Dragon Ball Z: The Legend is…
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New firmware for Terraonion’s MODE optical drive emulator released Wednesday to fix outstanding issues with the Saturn and add features to the Dreamcast. Firmware version 1.05 R3 is the first…
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The top video game analyst for market information company Circana posted top 20 charts that give a glimpse into the performance of Sega Saturn games in the U.S. Mat Piscatella,…
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There’s a new way to fix a broken joint in the Saturn twin stick controller thanks to a fan-made design for 3D printers. Shadowmask, known more in the Saturn community…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The manual for Hyper 3-D Pinball doesn’t hold back: it declares pinball to be the ultimate form of gaming: So you think you’re a hardened gamer? Think again. All those…
Best Of Saturn
Jungle Park, developed by several software houses and unleashed on Saturn in Japan in 1998, is an unusual point-and-click puzzle / action game, with mini-games here and there. You live…
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Game saving is broken for anyone using the latest stable Saturn core after the main MiSTer branch was updated last week. Alexey Melnikov, aka Sorgelig, the father of the MiSTer project,…