Best Of Saturn
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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
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:…
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The first update for the English translation patch for Shining Force III in more than a year and a half was made public July 19, adding the ability to choose…
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The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The…
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Quite a few Saturn games are newly playable on the MiSTer FPGA after its Saturn core got an update yesterday. The new builds for single- and dual-RAM setups are not…
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Tamaki Yoshitaka, the original character designer of Sega’s long-running Shining Force series, has died, according to a social media post. He was 55. The post Thursday night on X, formerly…
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You never know what secrets continue to lurk in Sega Saturn games, even after nearly 30 years. This week saw new secrets come to light, as one industrious Shining Force…