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Hacker Patchyfluffy has released an English patch for the pet simulator Sega Saturn de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Park, an exclusive to the Saturn. As the name suggests, you run a park…
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Prolific Saturn hacker KoolFiller has released one of his most ambitious projects to date over on SegaXtreme, a hacked version of Athena‘s 1997 Saturn shmup maker Dezaemon 2 that not…
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Big news for Saturn fans was shared this week in the SHIRO! Discord: Two Japanese-exclusive, online-only Saturn titles thought lost to time have been cracked open by one of the…
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KoolFiller isn’t kooling down anytime soon when it comes to his Saturn hacking, releasing yet another English translation yesterday morning to download on SegaXtreme. Having just released the first volume…
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In September, a user on GitHub known as pepa released an English fan translation for Snatcher on the PlayStation 1, labeled as release v0.5. After various iterations over the month,…
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An English translation patch for the Saturn home-exclusive action puzzler Monster Slider is now available! While this patch was created specifically for the October SHIRO! Community Challenge — more details…
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While 1998 was the death knell for the Saturn in the West, the East saw well more than 200 releases, including Datt Japan’s strategy RPG Valhollian. Set in a medieval…
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Based on the Madou Monogatari universe, Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon is a top-down rougelike action RPG produced and released by Compile in April 1998. The story sees the player…
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The summer of Saturn blazes on even into fall with yet another English fan translation on the Saturn thanks to KoolFiller! The first release of the Arcade Gears series of…
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Exxistance dropped his and Wiredcrackpot’s English translation hack for the Saturn exclusive Cyber Doll this morning on his GitHub. Developed by Betop and published by I’Max in 1996 in Japan,…
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Disney-based games were always a hit on the Mega Drive / Genesis, and the SEGA AGES entry I Love Mickey Mouse / I Love Donald Duck features both Castle of…
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Released by CheeseburgerFreedomMan over on SegaXtreme at the end of last month, an English translation of the Neon Genesis Evangelion dating game Girlfriend of Steel has made second impact on…
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Longtime translation patch group Meduza Team is back with another shadowdropped effort — this time it’s Madou Monogatari, also known as Sorcery Saga. The patch went up Tuesday on Meduza…
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Having already experimented with the Saturn’s online facilities with Saturn Bomberman, Hudson Soft saw fit to unleash the card strategy game Shadows of the Tusk on Japanese gamers in mid-1998….
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A fan is hacking an old English translation into the Saturn version of daughter-raising simulator Princess Maker 2. Washbear posted a thread on SegaXtreme last week showing off her progress…
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Stylized 2D graphics and multi-arc storyline lovers, step right up to Princess Crown, a late 1997 Atlus side-scrolling action game laden with RPG elements. Players take on the role of…
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At last, a translator is on board the effort to turn Grandia: Digital Museum’s script into English, according to the project lead. TrekkiesUnite118 posted Wednesday on SegaXtreme that Wiredcrackpot has…
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This morning, version 2.0 of Exxistance’s Willy Wombat English Improvement patch went live. This patch is markedly more ambitious than its version 1.0 predecessor, going well beyond English menus. Exxistance’s…
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Earlier this week, Exxistance dropped a surprise English translation patch for the SEGA AGES port of the sprite scaling arcade racer Power Drift over on his GitHub. Released in 1998…
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Once again, prolific fan translator Exxistance releases another English fan translation in his “Summer of Saturn” series. Today, he translated the remaining Japanese text on Saturn fighter Dead or Alive….
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Sting’s 1998 Japanese Saturn release, Baroque, is a 3D, first-person perspective roguelike action game. Inflicted with amnesia, you begin in a darkly post-apocalyptic world whose inhabitants’ bodies suffer mutations representing…
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Released this morning by KoolFiller over on Segaxtreme, a full English translation is now available for the straight to home consoles hot-blooded family beat ’em up Nekketsu Oyako. A December…
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New English fan translation patches for lesser-known titles Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth (referred to just as Tama moving forward) and Hissatsu! are now available for us all to…
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A mid-1995 Japan-only port of the PC original, the psychological horror Dark Seed is a point and click adventure in the style of H.R. Giger. You’ve just bought an old…
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Cyber Doll Back in July 2025, fan translator Exxistance began work on the cyberpunk RPG Cyber Doll on the Saturn with translator Wiredcrackpot: While there hasn’t been an open fan…
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Who doesn’t love Cotton, the cutest teenage witch this side of the Pumpkin Kingdom? When Princess Appli steals — then loses — the powerful Water Willow candy, Cotton must embark…
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Back in June 2001, with the popularity of the Magic: The Gathering property exploding the ’90s and continuing its domination in the 2000s despite the rise of other games such…
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When the world was young and all things were new, at the dawn of industrial age, there lived a boy named Justin. Brimming with exuberance and a zeal to explore,…
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Hot on the heels of 1997’s Grandia, the remake of the 1994 SEGA CD / Mega CD hit Lunar 2: Eternal Blue launched on the Saturn in 1998. Set a…
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Judging is over for the contest portion of the SegaXtreme Showcase, and so is the mystery surrounding its secret translation patch entry — it’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, as revealed…
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The SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 31st Anniversary Showcase reached its climax last night with the release of a digital magazine highlighting all 31 entries paired with announcing the contest winners. Showcase organizer Emerald…
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Over the next three weeks, we will be taking a look at GameArts’ triumvirate of their biggest Saturn titles, kicking things off with Lunar: Silver Star Story! A remake of…
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A 17-year-old named Angie Hart is found dead at the foot of the planetarium in Chicago, and it’s up to detective J.B. Harold — YOU — to solve this murder…
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One of the very first Saturn titles to receive a fan translation, Revolutionary Girl Utena: Story of the Someday Revolution is a polished visual novel based on the excellent anime…
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What’s in a name, anyways?? With an odd title, Linkle Liver Story is a cute 1996 Japanese action RPG released by NexTech. The game revolves around fox-girl Kitsch and the…