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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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Taisen Netplay has reached its public beta, opening up a whole new avenue of online play for Dreamcast fans. Taisen Netplay is a tunneling script that leverages the signal from…
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“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,…
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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…
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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…
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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–…
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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…
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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,…
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Released by Scholar in 1996, Minami no Shima ni Buta ga Ita ~Lucas no Daibouken~ (roughly: The Pig of South Island: Lucas’ Great Adventure) sees you control a portly pig….
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A new version of Saturn emulator SSF was released last week, making minor fixes to get a couple games running and improve audio recording. It comes after a more major…
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Sega developed and published games for several anime series in the ’90s. In this edition I’m looking at two of them that have heretofore-unreported cheat codes: Neon Genesis Evangelion: 2nd…
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New firmware was released Sunday for the Fenrir Lite optical drive emulator for Sega Saturn a month after the device’s debut to address problems that didn’t exist for earlier models….
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This September the SHIRO! community will choose Garian’s fate in Climax Entertainment’s mixed-genre classic Dark Savior! Can you reach the captain’s quarters in time? Participants will pursue the murderous monster…
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Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru, the Saturn run-n-gun infamous for being one of the most expensive on the aftermarket, now has an English translation patch thanks to a fan who’s new to…
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Another Sega Saturn game is getting re-released on modern platforms — and this time, it’s bundled with a new entry in its series. Taito announced Tuesday that Bubble Bobble: Sugar…
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Ported from the PC FX by Success and published on Saturn by Human in 1997, Blue Breaker is an RPG that features anime FMV scenes, lots of gorgeous still art,…
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The Manic Media Productions development studio is listed as having made three games on MobyGames: Manic Karts (1995, for PC) SuperKarts (1995, for PC) Formula Karts (1997, for PC, Saturn…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Pair of Romhacks Show Albert Odyssey Some Love– Under the Microscope: Thunder Force V Sample ROM– Waku Waku…
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Dragon Ball Z: The Legend English Translation version 1.0 — a patch two years in the making — dropped on SegaXtreme this morning. You can download the patch here! This…