Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Here is how GamePro’s review summed up Criticom: Criticom is the worst fighting game of the year. A 1996 Usenet user had this to say: i had the playstation version…
SEGAGuys Spotlight
While it celebrated its 30th birthday in Japan last November and the 30th anniversary of its surprise American launch in May, today marks another significant three-decade milestone in the Saturn’s…
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Time Warner’s recreation of Virtua Racing on the Saturn is known for its great music, but it’s notoriously silent while replaying a completed race. It’s not supposed to be, though….
Best Of Saturn
An early 1998, Japan-only Chunsoft production, Sound Novel Machi presents a “day in the life” perspective of eight characters living in the same town. This visual novel consists of still…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Radiant Silvergun is a well-regarded shoot-em-up from Treasure, whose game Silhouette Mirage was previously covered on Rings of Saturn. I looked into this game’s code a while back, but didn’t…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Leaderboards Added to Yaba Sanshiro on Mobile– Super Mario 64 Dreamcast Port Update: Renewed Effort Making Great Strides–…
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Cafe-alpha continues their decade-long quest to make playing games on real Saturn hardware more accessible and affordable. A June 22 update on their Patreon page detailed some features present in…
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Starting July 1 and running until the end of the month, the SHIRO! community will be hopping into the cockpits of HIGH-MACs to face off against the fighting factions of…
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Two more Saturn games are available on modern platforms after City Connection released Farland Saga 1 and 2 yesterday. Unfortunately, the publisher made no effort to localize either game, which…
Best Of Saturn
Developed by TamTam and published by Pioneer LDC in 1996, The Mysterious World of El Hazard is a visual novel-style game based on the anime of the same name. The…
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The Dreamcast homebrew community continues to wow the retro gaming sphere with yet another port of a 1990s classic to Sega’s sixth-generation hardware. Falco Girgis, a developer with credits including…
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Leaderboards have been added to the Android and iOS versions of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro, giving players a way to compare their fastest times in a pair of games via…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Sega Saturn ODE Comparison– Under the Microscope Presents: The Shining the Holy Ark Rhythm Challenge– DecAthlete #BestOfSaturnSilver– Mario…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Omakase! Savers is an adventure game for the Saturn that was published by Sega in 1996. It tells the story of three girls who stumble upon an ancient secret that…
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The Dragon Ball homebrew game that was revealed last month has made more progress, according to an update given by its developer, NaiSan. NaiSan posted in the SHIRO! Discord server…
SEGAGuys Spotlight
Guess who’s back, back again … that’s right, the Dreamcast community’s very own Slim Shady is back yet again with another project. Jnmartin84, the man behind the ports of Doom…
Best Of Saturn
Developed by AM3 for the ST-V “Titan” arcade board and then ported to the Saturn for a summer 1996 release, DecAthlete (Athlete Kings in Europe) is an Olympic-style sports game…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Shining the Holy Ark, the 1996 RPG for Saturn, has the strangest hidden feature I’ve ever seen. It has unused code for a sound matching minigame that works like this:…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Mario Kart 64 Receiving a Fan Port to Dreamcast– Under the Microscope: Strikers 1945 & Sengoku Blade– WUXI…
News
The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core added the last five months’ worth of test updates to the main branch yesterday, making them more accessible to users of the…
Best Of Saturn
Imagine heading to China to learn about the nine mythical dragons, only to discover one has reawakened… and he’s evil! As the foreigner Ken, your task in Imagineer’s 1997 graphic…
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Back on April 30, TZMWX announced the open source availability of his WUXI Drive Switcher project to GitHub for free public use. WUXI is an optical drive channel switcher for…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Strikers 1945 (Saturn and PlayStation) and Sengoku Blade (Saturn), which are both shooting games from Psikyo. In wrote previously about patches for the Saturn versions…
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This past week was big for Mario Kart fans old and new with the release of the latest entry in the series — Mario Kart World — and the surprise…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Just Got a SEGA Saturn? Play These 10 Games First!– Curtains Drop on May’s Jung Rhythm Community Challenge–…
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SHIRO! already knows Saturn games are art, and now an arts festival agrees. Red Moon: Lost Days, the first commercial Sega Saturn homebrew game, has been accepted into the ninth…
Best Of Saturn
A late 1997 Japan-only release, Tactics Formula is a self-described tactical board game. It’s a racing game but rather than controlling your vehicle in real time, you select moves in…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’m examining Gunbird, the vertical shooter from Psikyo. I found four new cheat codes for it: The Test mode menu. NoDeath mode, which makes you invincible. Skip…
Community
“The May Community Challenge boogied on by, and now Jung Rhythm might as well have been a fever dream! It’s easy to lose track of time when you are getting…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Zen Nihon Pro Wres Featuring Virtua– Mahou no Janshi: Poe Poe Poemy #BestOfSaturn– Advanced V.G.,…
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Modern platforms got two new Saturn games Wednesday when City Connection released Advanced V.G. and Steam-Heart’s — even in the West, for which there was no formal announcement. They’re part…
Best Of Saturn
Mahjong games were plentiful in Japan, and this 1995 Imagineer-published title gives the strategic game the “18+” yellow-label treatment. Mahou no Janshi: Poe Poe Poemy boils down to a riichi…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Zen Nihon Pro Wres Featuring Virtua is was produced by Sega and Scarab. As the name suggests, it’s a Japanese pro wrestling game that features two Virtua Fighter characters. The…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Motor Mayhem, Gundam, Ring Library Win SegaXtreme Homebrew Contest– New Rhea/Phoebe SD Card Management Tool Released– Under the…
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2025 continues to be a renaissance of sorts for Sega’s Dreamcast with yet another online server brought back to life by the fan community. Only a week ago the Dreamcast…