News
Today, December 20th, Neuromage Studio has released the prequel to its commercially released Saturn game Red Moon Lost Days, entitled Lost Days 0: Queen’s Dream. The game is a hybrid…
Review
Bring your inner child. SONIC 3 goes full on kid mode! * THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW & ALL IMAGES ARE APPROVED BY PARAMOUNT. Back in 2020, I wondered just…
Spotlight
I’ve always loved the racing game genre, and when you combine that with my love for Sega Saturn, I’m pretty much in heaven… Saturn is home to so many great…
Community
Started back in July of 2021, Sega Mania represented a return to physical print magazines for SEGA fans and it kicked off a bit of an avalanche of similarly SEGA…
SHIRO! PODCAST
On this latest episode we’re joined by a round table of Saturn Community Game Hackers, including TrekkiesUnite118, Derek Pascarella (ATEAM), Malenko & Bo Bayles! In this episode, we dive into…
Community
After several months of hard work, Saturn community member & developer, Frogbull, shared his latest progress on the Metal Gear Solid project for Sega Saturn. Frogbull claims the second level…
News
In celebration of its 30th Anniversary, CLAMP has announced a NEW ‘Revival Project’ for this classic and beloved anime series While Kodansha and TMS Entertainment have officially announced the return…
Community
Our SHIRO! Community Challenge for July 2024 is underway, as several members drift their way to prizes and the title of “TOUGE KING” in our latest High Velocity Mountain Racing…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
On July 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker & reverse engineer, Bo Bayles, released a special game patch in celebration of the 28th Anniversary of NiGHTS into Dreams… In this reimaged…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
On June 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker extraordinaire, Bo Bayles, announced the latest in his series of game patches that seek to restore hidden/unused assets & functionality to Saturn games….
News
On May 15, 2024, TPUnix released new firmware update V0.5 for the SAROO Sega Saturn Flashcart, bringing some much needed features and improvements. Firm V0.5 Changes Menu screen resolution changed…
Editorial
The SEGA Saturn is almost 30 years old… WOW!Today marks the 29th anniversary of its North American launch on May 11, 1995. It’s hard to believe that it’s been that…
Community
On April 26, 2024, community member Frogbull posed yet another “what if” question for Saturn by teasing a demo build of Naughty Dog’s Crash Bandicoot running on Saturn hardware. Frogbull’s…
Community
Just yesterday, April 28th, JoEngine author, Johannes Fetz, announced a significant update to the Sega Saturn Software Development Kit that now includes support for Voxels. New version of #JoEngine for…
Editorial
” And there will be… sorrow SAROO! “-Bad Religion There may be a few folks scratching their heads at this article’s title thinking, ‘What exactly is a… SAROO?’ If this…
Community
On this latest episode of the SEGAGuys‘ pod, Dan, James, Dave and Nick discuss the Western SEGA Saturn library. Is it underrated? Why is it perceived so negatively, even today?…
Community
The March Edition of our monthly SHIRO! Community Challenge is here, and it’s time to wax your boards and carve those slopes in CAVE’s snow-shredding classic, Steep Slope Sliders! This…
Editorial
To the uninitiated, SEGA Touring Car Championship was an unconventional arcade racer, based on the German DTM, crafted by a handpicked team of AM3 developers and released to the world…
Community
For the 5th year in a row, SegaXtreme & Emerald Nova, bring us an outstanding lineup of Sega Saturn homebrew, patches and tools from this amazing community, marking the 29th…
News
After years of waiting, we finally have Artemio’s 240p Test Suite now on SEGA Saturn care of hitomi2500, who’s ported it as their submission to SegaXtreme‘s annual Saturn homebrew game…
Community
Just yesterday, January 18th, 2024, Amiga developer Z-Team submitted their entry to this year’s Saturn Game Competition hosted by SegaXtreme and organized by Dr. Emerald Nova. Z-Team has created a…
Community
Nearly 2 years ago (Mar 8, 2022) developer XProger announced that he was working on porting OpenLara, an open source Tomb Raider engine to SEGA’s 32X add-on. Fast forward to…
Community
On the 3rd of January, hotrodx, long time member of the SegaXtreme & SGDK communities, posted a little DEMO for a homebrew recreation of Konami’s 1992 X-MEN Arcade, which they…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Dave & Pat sit down with Joe (aka SegaRPGFan) to discuss the story of how Saturn’s Online NetLink functionality was brought back to life and how folks can get their Saturn’s online today in 2023/24.
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Bo Bayles (aka @memoryfallen), resident Saturn reverse engineer extraordinaire and author of the Rings of Saturn blog, has just recently unearthed yet another amazing hidden feature in Sonic Team’s Burning…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast!Episode 5: Saturn TreasuresAir Date: 2023-12-12Patreon Early Access: 2023-11-14
Join Dave, Ben, and Peter as we chat about the three Treasure games released for the Saturn: the fighting sprite-fest Guardian …
Review
SHIRO! recently unboxed Retro-Bit’s NEW 2.4Ghz Wireless Analog Pro Controller for SEGA Saturn, and we’re here to share with you our opinions so far. (Thanks to the folks at Retro-Bit…
News
Last night, SEGA sent a massive SHOCKWAVE across social media platforms with their ‘POWER SURGE: SEGA REVEAL TRAILER – TGA 2023’ live premier! Fans were absolutely buzzing about this megaton…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Join SHIRO! for a chat with Audi Sorlie of Limited Run Games talking SEGA Saturn, NEC PC-98, Japanese Visual Novels, Digital Foundry, game music composition, physical media & the current…
Uncategorized
This Black Friday, we’re blowing out our remaining stock of all ‘B-RANK‘ issues for just 99¢ plus shipping while supplies last… NOTE: ‘B-RANK’ issues contain a few incorrectly numbered pages…
Community
For several years, Saturn Memories has run one of (if not the best) Saturn gameplay reference channels on YouTube, and for nearly as long, he’s been collecting and archiving links…
Episode
Are Content Creators Keeping Alive the Legacy SEGA Ignores? SEGAGuys and SHIRO! join forces once again to discuss the preservation of SEGA’s past and what it means for the legacy…
Spotlight
We’ve added new merch designs to our TeeSpring shop, and there are several fabric and color options for folks to choose from. ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING on the shop is priced with…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Original Recording Date: Thursday, March, 29, 2018
In this interview we’re joined by prominent SEGA fan and Youtuber, Mel, aka SEGA LORD X. We discuss everything from the beginnings of his channel to the drama and controversy surrounding the closur…
Interview
The SHIRO! crew caught up with Ryan Engstrom (aka Archades Games), an independent tester working alongside Retro-Bit at the 2023 Portland Retro Gaming Expo. We discussed the reveal of their…