Fans Bring the Saturn to Gamescom 2025
The video game industry descended upon Cologne, Germany, last weekend for Gamescom 2025, and the Sega Saturn was represented well thanks to fans running the SegAddiction booth. Those fans, who…
The video game industry descended upon Cologne, Germany, last weekend for Gamescom 2025, and the Sega Saturn was represented well thanks to fans running the SegAddiction booth. Those fans, who…
An in-progress patch for an English translation of Sword & Sorcery, a 1996 JRPG by Microcabin, was added to the SegaXtreme extreme resources section today! This patch, which is translating…
Yep, you heard that right! You can now play Mario Kart 64 on the SEGA Dreamcast! It’s thanks to jnmartin84, who’s already worked on ports of Doom 64 and Wipeout….
The source code for the Saturn version of Lobotomy Software’s first-person shooter engine was uploaded to GitHub and the Internet Archive last Saturday. Called the SlaveDriver engine, it powered three…
Released first in arcades on the Titan board, then ported to Saturn, Master System, PC, and Game Gear in 1996, Baku Baku Animal: World Zookeeper Contest is one of the…
In this edition: I break the password encoding scheme for The Crow: City of Angels while looking for cheat codes. I don’t find any, but I do find an exploitable…
Released in 1998 and fan-translated by Maud in 2025, Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon (Exhilarating Puyo Puyo Dungeon) is a roguelike that sees the player take the role of either…
In this edition we’re looking at Thunder Force V Sample ROM, a demo disc for Thunder Force V. It normally lets you play a single stage, but there’s data for…
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Casper– Android Version of Yaba Sanshiro Adds RetroAchievements– GunBlaze S #BestOfSaturn– Saturn MiSTer Core Now…
Two romhacking projects look to bring quality of life changes and audio options to Sunsoft’s cult-classic Sega Saturn JRPG, Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean. Albert Odyssey is a rather standard…
Taki Udon, known for the MiSTer Pi and the upcoming SuperStation One, announced Wednesday that their FPGA devices support loading Sega Saturn discs with the SuperDock add-on. Added preliminary support…
Members of the Sega Saturn SHIRO! Discord may find themselves interacting with users in a new way after the staff added support for the Discross messaging app today! Saturn NetLink/XBand…
The Saturn MiSTer core has passed all currently known tests, according to one of the people who works on it, representing how closely it replicates the functionality of an original…
Originally released on PC in 1994 as GunBlaze, the game was ported to Saturn in 1998 with upgraded graphics and retitled GunBlaze S. An RPG done in anime-style, it is…
The Android version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro now supports RetroAchievements, the service’s community manager announced Saturday. “We have an exciting new partnership to announce to you!” said the community…
Over at the Sonic Retro forums, user Black Squirrel pointed out that the PlayStation version of Casper has some cheat codes listed on sites like GameFAQs. He was able to…
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Sky Target– Sega Pluto, Dragon Ball Homebrew at Retrocon in Brazil– Re-Loaded #BestOfSaturn– Keio Flying…
Over this past month the SHIRO! community commanded state-of-the-art High Mobility Armored Combat Systems (HIGH-MACs) across the battlefields of Eurasia in GameArts’ Gungriffon. By the end of July, 10 participants…
KoolFiller released an English text/dub hack for the NTSC version of Keio Flying Squadron 2 last month over on SEGAXTREME. This translation patch takes almost all the PAL-exclusive English text…
Initially slated for 1996, then a 1997 release, Re-Loaded by Gremlin Interactive was eventually cancelled completely — but not before a demo snuck out on a couple of European demo…
The Sega Saturn had a presence at Retrocon last weekend, with attendees of the São Paulo, Brazil, gaming convention getting the chance to see a prototype console as well as an…
This is the introduction to Sky Target, the 3D flight combat game from Sega: A super jet fighter plane, nicknamed “White Sword,” was developed by the U.S. Army in strict…
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Congo the Movie: The Lost City of Zinj– Loaded #BestOfSaturn– Saturn News Roundup: Achievements, Myths…
Here’s a quick look at some of the things the Saturn community has been talking about this week. Retro Achievements coming to Yaba Sanshiro Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto posted on social…
What do you get when you mix up some pew pew with some splat splat? Loaded, that’s what! A 1996 top-down run and gun, you take control of one of…
Congo the Movie: The Lost City of Zinj is a Doom-like FPS that’s set in the world of the 1995 film Congo. It doesn’t use the movie characters or scenes,…
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Shining Wisdom– Shining Force 3 Scenario 1 #BestOfSaturnGold– New Fenrir Lite Model Unveiled– Saturn Online…
“Two of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a while to improve the Netlink experience: 1. Make a simple matchmaking server so people don’t have to exchange public…
The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore today. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being…
Unleashed in December 1997 in Japan, and subsequently in mid-1998 in the West, Shining Force 3 Scenario 1 is the beginning of what is perhaps Camelot’s magnum opus. Arriving late…
In a previous edition I looked at Shining the Holy Ark for Saturn. I found an unusual method for enabling that game’s debug menu in that game, so I naturally…
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Satiator Menu Kai Receives Multi-Disc Support in Upcoming Version– Under the Microscope: Radiant Silvergun– Sound Novel Machi #BestOfSaturn–…
Despite the original open-source designs being over a decade old, the Saroo flash cartridge for the Sega Saturn really rose to prominence in the last year or so, and the…
There have never been as many Saturn fan translation patches in progress as there are now. Considering that, it can be hard to keep track of their progress. You can…
A summer 1997 SNK port of the (arguably superior) NEO GEO CD title, Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits Bushidou Retsuden is an old-skool JRPG universe set in the Samurai Shodown universe. Play…