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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,…
Best Of Saturn
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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
Best Of Saturn
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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
Best Of Saturn
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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
Best Of Saturn
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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Best Of Saturn
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…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…