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News Roundup for the Week of Oct. 9
Here’s a look at what’s new this week in the Sega Saturn community. Saturn core added to main MiSTer build The Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA was added Tuesday…
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Fans Port Tomb Raider Expansion Unfinished Business to Saturn
After more than a year of work, fans have finished a Saturn port of the 1998 PC expansion to Tomb Raider, Unfinished Business. RetroRaiderJohn, the port’s lead developer, uploaded a…
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Fan Translation Updates: Gundam, Silhouette Mirage and More
There have been a variety of new releases from Sega Saturn fan localization projects over the last couple weeks. Let’s take a look at what the community has been up…
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Saturn MiSTer Core Gets PAL Game Support
Support for PAL games has come to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA thanks to a new update today. The update also made a variety of improvements to the…
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Shining Force Artist Tamaki Yoshitaka Dies
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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Fan Translates Dungeon Master Nexus into English
An English translation for Saturn dungeon crawler Dungeon Master Nexus was released by a fan Wednesday. The effort came as a surprise to the Saturn community. It was made by…
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Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute announced
Assault Suit Leynos 2 is the next game in the Saturn Tribute line, publisher City Connection announced Thursday. It’s set for a release some time in 2024 on Nintendo Switch,…
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English Fan Localization Finished, Released for J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues
The English fan localization of Saturn adventure game J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues is finished, its project lead, Arjak, announced Sunday night. The patch can be downloaded from SegaXtreme. It…
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Progress Report: Saturn Fan Translations
While a fan translation for the Sega Saturn hasn’t been finished since July — when we got Baroque in English, and Deep Fear and Resident Evil in Spanish — a…
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News Roundup for the Week of Aug. 28
Here’s some news of note to Saturn fans from this week. Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Delayed Chunithm adds Sega Saturn startup sound remix to song list Aliexpress version…
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New Debug Features Found in Nights into Dreams
Software engineer Bo Bayles has spent the last couple years plumbing the code of his favorite Saturn game, Burning Rangers, for secret art assets, passwords and more. SHIRO! last checked…
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Thunder Force V Among Games Working With New MiSTer Core Update
The developer of the Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA, Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — pushed out a new build yesterday to make improvements to a variety of games’…
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News Roundup for the Week of Aug. 21
What’s new in the world of Sega Saturn fandom this week? Read on and find out! New stock of 21-pin SaturnSwitchers to go on sale Monday Will’s Console Modifications announced…
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News Roundup for the Week of August 14
Here are a few stories of interest to the Saturn community from the past week. Nights LEGO set hits 1,000 supporters A Nights into Dreams playset that was submitted as…
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New Cheats Discovered in Shining the Holy Ark
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…
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SAGE 2023 Trailer Highlights Nights Fangames
Nights into Dreams is the theme for this year’s annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo — aka SAGE — and a new trailer Sunday highlighted three fan-made homages to the iconic…
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News Roundup for the Week of August 7
Here are a few of the smaller Saturn-related stories from my metaphorical reporter’s notebook from this week. Spanish translation of Nanatsu shows signs of life The person translating Nanatsu Kaze…
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New Brackets Solve the Fenrir Gap Problem
The Fenrir ODE is a great way to play your Saturn in 2023, between its relative ease of installation and the convenience of having access to your entire library of…
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Saturn MiSTer Core Update Adds Save Support, Improves Audio
The developer of the MiSTer FPGA’s Saturn core has saved the day with his latest update — it adds the ability to save progress in games, a long-requested feature among…
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News Roundup for the Week of July 31
It’s been a busy news week for the Saturn scene, so let’s take a look at a few of the odds and ends from the last several days. Main MiSTer…
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Radiant Silvergun Is Coming to Steam
Radiant Silvergun is coming soon to the PC according to a store page that appeared on Steam last night. No release date is listed on the Steam page, but Gematsu…
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20-pin SaturnSwitchers to Go on Sale Today
Owners of the original 20-pin model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator can rejoice — a new batch of SaturnSwitchers will go on sale later today. The creator of the…
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News Roundup for the Week of July 24
From updates on new peripheral hardware and a fan translation to games we’ve reported on before coming to new platforms, we’ve got a solid slate of news items in the…
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Deep Fear, Resident Evil Get Spanish Fan Translation Patches
You must play Sega Saturn — or as you might say in Spanish, ¡debe jugar a Sega Saturn! Especially now, with a couple of high-profile Spanish fan translations of Saturn…
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Slam Dunk Movie Coming to Theaters Next Week
In news that’s tangentially related to the Saturn, the latest movie in the Slam Dunk franchise is coming to U.S. theaters next week after it debuted to critical acclaim and…
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News Roundup for the Week of July 17
Amidst Shiro’s continuing coverage of the leaked Sega Fiscal Year 1997 brand documents and all of the breaking news last week, there are a few smaller stories to catch up…
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English Patch for Baroque Releases
A fan-made English patch for the Saturn version of first-person roguelike RPG Baroque is now available, coming less than two months after developer Plissken announced he was working on it….
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Limited Run Games Announces Gex Trilogy
Limited Run Games today announced Gex Trilogy, a collection of games starring the titular gecko mascot that will come to modern platforms. It's tail time. #GexIsBackGEX returns through the science…
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Driving Strikers Officially Goes on Sale
Driving Strikers is now on sale physically and digitally for the Dreamcast after going up on publisher Wave Game Studios’ website last Friday. The landmark indie-developed vehicular soccer game is…
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PandaMonium Reviews Every Page of Leaked FY97 Docs in Livestream
Our fellow Shiro, PandaMonium, livestreamed for nearly three hours Friday evening to go page by page through the Sega fiscal year 1997 documents that leaked last week. For those of…
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Sega Fiscal Year ’97 Docs Were a Late 2021 eBay Purchase
When Sega of America’s fiscal year 1997 brand review documents hit the Internet on Monday morning, the secrets they revealed sent shockwaves throughout the retro gaming community. But after eluding…
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Mods Improve FPS, Controls for Nights into Dreams on PC
A modder has hacked the PC version of Nights into Dreams to increase its framerate and improve its controls — just in time for the 27th anniversary of the original…
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Leaked Fiscal Year ’97 Documents Reveal Saturn Sales Numbers
Sega’s fiscal year 1997 brand review documents that were uploaded to the Internet Archive this morning offer 272 pages worth of insight into Sega of America’s inner workings when the…
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Saturn MiSTer Core Update Squeezes into June
MiSTer FPGA owners are rejoicing today after a new update to the hardware emulator’s Saturn core was uploaded to the Internet. Developer Sergiy Dvodnenko, aka SRG320, published new code today…
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The State of Saturn Emulation on the PS4
You must play Sega Saturn, as we say here at Shiro, and that means by any method available. But one method we haven’t covered so far has been emulation on…