SEGAGuys Spotlight
Of all the systems SEGA released, none has had a redemption arc quite like the SEGA Saturn. For years it was the odd one out – misunderstood, overlooked, or just…
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.,…
Editorial
A new Sega Saturn-inspired indie racer is set to launch off the starting grid, and it looks to be something really special. LINEAR 直線的 S is the first in a…
News
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…
Community
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…
Community
A former Bethesda employee by the name of Michael Matthews once caught the attention of a Sega Saturn Facebook group. He posted pictures of the development Saturn console they used…
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Meduza Team has been busy in the last several months implementing and testing frames per second (FPS) unlock codes for Sega Saturn titles. This effort was made public Dec. 29…
Best Of Saturn
Daytona USA roared into gamers’ Saturns at launch in the West as the most hotly anticipated arcade conversion of early 1995. SEGA’s promise of “arcade in the home” was fully…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition we’re analyzing Asuka 120% Limited Burning Fest. for Saturn. This game, like the rest of the ones in the Asuka 120% series, didn’t get released outside of…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– English Patch for D&D Tower of Doom Is Out Now– Under the Microscope: Fighting Vipers Taikenban– Shin Megami…
Community
Download Rhea/Phoebe Sorter:https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Rhea-Phoebe-Sorter Back in 2015, hardware engineer Deunan released his Rhea and Phoebe ODEs (optical drive emulators) for the Sega Saturn. These two represent the first of their kind…
Community
Micro Motor Mayhem, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Saturn Ring Library are the big winners in the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition, as organizer Emerald Nova announced today…
Community
The Brazilian developer and retro YouTuber NaiSan (aka Nai Adventure) posted in the SHIRO! Discord server on Tuesday evening a glimpse of his in-development Sega Saturn homebrew, a beat ‘em…
Best Of Saturn
Demons lurk all over Japan, and Shin Megami Tensei’s Devil Summoners exist to combat them! Play as a student who gets caught up in a titanic struggle between evil supernatural…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The trial disc for Fighting Vipers secretly has a full build of the game behind its demo restrictions. That build is from 1996-07-24, right in between the…
Community
Trade your D20s for a Saturn controller because an English translation patch for the Sega Saturn port of sidescrolling beat-em-up Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is complete. The sole…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Trio of Aero Dancing Titles Are Back Online– English Patch Released for Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon– Under…
Spotlight
The Sega Saturn is a success story. Thirty years ago today, the Saturn arrived on North American shores on May 11, 1995. Over the next three years, fans enjoyed a…
Community
Noah and the Poohloudies just got its first update (and it’s a BIG one) in over four years, after hitting a dead end with the previous game engine. This time…
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The results of the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition have been delayed by about a week, its organizer said Thursday. EmeraldNova told others on the SegaXtreme Discord server…
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One of the Saturn’s oldest emulators got its first update in nearly a year last month, with SSF preview version 34 sporting a bevy of technical improvements. Many of the…
Best Of Saturn
Capcom released buckets of Saturn titles, one of these being the mid-1998 Japan-only Pocket Fighters. Utilizing the 4MB cartridge, this arcade port packs a punch — super-deformed “kids” characters from…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I reverse engineered the password system The Lost World: Jurassic Park, revealing some long-unknown cheat codes. The new codes enable a stage select screen, an invincibility mode,…
Community
A new adventure awaits English-speaking Saturn fans now that a translation patch for Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon is complete. The translator and hacker, Maud, posted a Google Drive link…
Community
Late April saw the return of online capabilities for not one, not two, but three Dreamcast, console-exclusive titles, all belonging to the Aero Dancing franchise. The Dreamcastlive.net announcement is here….
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Make Movies for Your Saturn With Sega FILM Tools 3.0.1, Cinepak Movie Disc 1.0– Under the Microscope: Keio…
Community
The developer of the Satiator optical drive emulator released a new firmware Saturday numbered 162 that fixes crackling Redbook audio heard in some games. The problem cropped up with the…
Best Of Saturn
In early 1997, Imp produced and NaxatSoft released a polygonal vertical-scrolling shmup Planet Joker. Players take control of a flying mech and proceed to blast, bomb, and otherwise destroy their…
Community
Beginning May 1 and running until the end of the month the SHIRO! community will be tackling the challenging, but incredibly charming — in a janky fifth-generation, 3D-graphics sort of…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Keio Flying Squadron 2 has a cool debug mode: it has a stage select menu, hitbox display, a higher jump, and more. The code to enable it…
Community
This year we saw two submissions from TrekkiesUnite118 to the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition. First is an update to Sega FILM Tools, a useful java app for…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Eadmaster Declares Princess Crown Translation Release-Worthy– Under the Microscope: Astal– Exploring New Homebrew: MOAI Talks and Haiku– English…