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A legendary SEGA composer (who happens to also be the guy who sings in Daytona USA) agreed to do an interview. SamIAm helped facilitate the conversation and translated the entire…
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The March SHIRO! Monthly Community Challenge will need you to hang on tight!!! It’s time to once again bust out those Racing Controllers because this polygonal take on the classic…
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City Connection will release Farland Saga 1 and 2 in their Saturn Tribute line June 26, the publisher announced Tuesday. On the official website, City Connection says the titles will…
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Eadmaster continues to make progress on his English fan translation patch for Saturn action RPG Princess Crown, updating it twice in the last month to fit more text on screen,…
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On February 21, 2025, Saturn hardware hacker, TZMWX announced that he is currently testing his own newly developed switcher that aims for universal compatibility with ALL existing Saturn ODEs (optical…
Best Of Saturn
Published by SEGA and released in late 1995, X Japan Virtual Shock 001 can best be described as an FMV walking simulator where the player takes on the role of…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Before they joined Sega in 1999, Visual Concepts produced two sports games for Saturn. Those two games, NHL 97 and NBA Action 98, both have unreported Easter…
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Western fans looking to play Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute on their PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 or Switch finally have a date to look forward to, as publisher Clear…
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A demo for The House of the Dead 2 Remake went up on Steam today, giving PC players a glimpse at what’s in store when publisher Forever Entertainment releases the…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: NiGHTS Into Dreams (Puffy Boss Fight Edition)– Nekketsu Oyako #BestOfSaturn– Saturn MiSTer Core Adds Titan…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Saturn enthusiast Shadowmask has just published a new translation patch for Mobile Suit Gundam, the 1995 Saturn game from CRI and Bandai. Check it out! Shadowmask’s work prompted me to…
Best Of Saturn
Something mysterious has fallen from space and crashed into the Pacific, near the underwater military research facility the Big Table. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Service, you take…
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Get ready to defend White Base from the Principality of Zeon, Saturn fans — the English fan translation patch for Mobile Suit Gundam is finished and downloadable. The patch’s lead…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Join SaturnDave, TraynoCo, Sega Lord X & Dan the MegaDriver as we talk Neo Geo on Sega Saturn and break down all of the ports that made it to our…
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As the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA draws closer to perfect emulation of Sega’s fifth-generation console, its developers have turned their attention to adding extra features — most recently,…
Best Of Saturn
A 1995 side-scrolling beat-em-up courtesy of Technosoft, Nekketsu Oyako (roughly, Hot Blooded Family) is a colorful one- to two-player affair. Family matriarch and scientist Saeko has been captured — take…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
NiGHTS Into Dreams has strange little Easter egg at the end of its Splash Garden level. Sometimes if you defeat the boss, Puffy, a door opens and something falls out…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– January 2025’s Community Challenge Slides to an End– Expansion Hack: Power Stone, Power Stone 2 (Dreamcast)– Saturn News…
Best Of Saturn
Fall 1998 saw the release of Simulation RPG Creator, a build-your-own-SRPG program that allowed aspiring gamers to develop their own Ogre Battle or Final Fantasy Tactics epic. The game is…
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A legendary author sends some love Mr. Bones’ way while homebrew developers continue to plug away on the Pseudo Saturn Kai and Yaba Sanshiro projects… Let’s take a look at…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Power Stone for Dreamcast has a hidden debug menu that lets you test various functions, alter game parameters, and view/edit character animations. Power Stone 2, also for…
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“Winter Heat has come and gone, and our carpals can breath a collective sigh of relief! Thank you all for making the first SHIRO! Community Challenge of 2025 a success!”…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Saturn Emulator Kronos 2.7 Releases, Developer Moves On– Dezaemon 2 #BestOfSaturn– Under the Microscope: BattleSport– New Saturn Tribute…
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Back in 2019, the Japanese store BEEP announced that Cotton would get a remake called “Cotton Reboot!” as part of their push to start publishing games. This was only the…
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When City Connection teased last month that its Saturn Tribute line would continue, it didn’t mention how many games that would entail. It turns out that the answer is a…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
BattleSport is a combination sports / vehicular combat game from Cyclone Studios. It was published for the 3DO in 1996, and ported to the Saturn and PlayStation in 1997. There…
Best Of Saturn
A late 1997 release, Athena’s Dezaemon 2 is a shmup-builder. Although it features some pre-built levels, the game’s focus is to allow players to put together the shmup of their…
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A new version of Kronos released over the holidays, but it could be its last after its main developer said he’s deprioritizing work on the Saturn emulator. Kronos 2.7 was…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast!Episode 7: 2024 Year in ReviewAir Date: 2025-01-29Patreon Early Access: 2025-01-22 Join Dave, Pat, Peter, Nick & Dan as we go over a TON…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Vampire Savior #BestOfSaturn– Under the Microscope: Hang-On GP– Saturn News Roundup: TXR Releases, Shining Force III Online, Web-Based…
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Much of the northern hemisphere may be in a deep freeze, but the Saturn scene’s always hot. Here’s a look at some of the recent stories fans are talking about….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The earliest references to cheat codes for Hang-On GP1 that I found were in the 1996-02 issue of Computer and Videos Games Magazine. They knew about two of them: Codes…
Best Of Saturn
Capcom’s Saturn development was among the very best, and one of their finest examples is Vampire Savior — an excellent port of their third Darkstalkers game. Released in Japan in…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Princess Crown Translation Update: eadmaster Releases Version 0.8– Under the Microscope: Actua Golf & Virtual Golf– Dragon Force…
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The Nova Saturn emulator got its first update in more than five years. Its creator, Steve Kwok, announced version 0.7 on his Patreon page on Christmas day. It can be…