A legendary author sends some love Mr. Bones’ way while homebrew developers continue to plug away on the Pseudo Saturn Kai and Yaba Sanshiro projects… Let’s take a look at a few smaller stories in the Saturn community in recent days.
Megami Tensei author expresses appreciation for Mr. Bones
Aya Nishitani, the author of the original Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei novel and its sequels — which inspired the Shin Megami Tensei video game series — apparently has played Mr. Bones and said he wished its world were the one he expressed in his stories. He made the comments Jan. 30 on X.
“I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to publish this,” Nishitani wrote in English. “1996 or 1997, when I played this game [on] Sega SATURN. I thought, ‘This is the kind of world I first wanted to express in MT,’ before I met Mr. Ueda of ATLUS. Of course, the graphics are fundamentally different. There are many fans of this game in the U.S., and I may erase this post because U.S. fans of this game may feel uncomfortable.”
That statement was followed by a link to a Google search for Mr. Bones, the quirky Saturn-exclusive platformer published by Sega in October 1996.
Several Mr. Bones fans assured Nishitani that his post was welcome and shouldn’t be deleted.
He also replied to one fan to say that Mr. Bones is the last game he found interesting, and he likes that the main character is lonely.
Small update posted to PseudoSaturn Patreon
Cafe-alpha, developer of the Pseudo Saturn Kai homebrew software for booting burned discs of Saturn games as well as a host of other functions, updated the project’s Patreon subscribers Friday.
Cafe-alpha said that subscribers weren’t billed in December and January because of the slow pace of work on Pseudo Saturn but expected to bill them for one or two months in preparation for the next public release of Satiator Menu Kai, the version of Pseudo Saturn made specifically for the Satiator optical drive emulator.
“Regarding progress, loading of multi-CD games is more or less implemented into Satiator Menu Kai,” Cafe-alpha wrote. “There are however some special cases requiring additional coding and testing, for example the support of multi-CD games whose each disc image are stored in subfolders.”
PseudoSaturn’s most recent public update was about 13 months ago.
Yaba Sanshiro update fixes Intel GPU issues
Miyax, developer of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro, announced a new update for the PC version Saturday in his Discord server.
“Black screen issue on Intel GPUs fixed!” he wrote in the server’s announcement channel. “I released this fix as version 1.16.7. You can update by selecting [help] ->[Check for updates] or download directly from https://www.yabasanshiro.com/download.”
Some users had reported the emulator starting up with a black screen and no menu, unable to play any games, since the Windows version was last updated in November. Miyax said a couple weeks ago that he bought a small prebuilt PC and used it to reproduce the issue and figure out how to fix it.
Yaba Sanshiro is a fork of Yabause, an emulator that’s no longer in active development. While Miyax has focused his efforts on making Yaba Sanshiro a stable way to play Saturn games on cell phones, he’s recently turned his attention back to the long-neglected Windows version.
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