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SHIRO! ‘Breakfast Club’: PRGE Roundup Chat
Pat, Dave & Nick discuss their thoughts and reflections on a BIG SATURDAY at PRGE over breakfast. Grab a hot cup of coffee or tea, and join them for this…
Articles by SaturnDave
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SHIRO! PODCAST – EP 4: Early Saturn PC Ports
Join Nick, Dave, Pat, and Peter for an informed and distinguished (ha!) back-and-forth on the PC conversions that helped fill the software drought early in the Saturn’s life. We get…
Interview
Interview: 7SHADES talks Saturn Development at PRGE 2023
Back in 2021, SHIRO! had the opportunity to interview the then Saturn homebrew community newcomer, 7Shades, regarding his shadow-dropped title, CUBECAT. At that time, the game was still fairly early…
Interview
Interview: Retro-Bit Unveils Early Dreamcast Pad Prototypes
The SHIRO! team caught up with Rich and Andy from Retro-Bit at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, and we were focused primarily on covering the much anticipated Saturn Wireless Pro…
News
Retro-Bit’s 2.4Ghz Wireless Pro Now Available for Pre-Order!
This morning, the folks at Retro-Bit announced pre-order availability of their long-awaited 2.4 Ghz “Wireless Pro” Controller. Designed as an ideal solution for playing Saturn ports and retro-style games on…
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NEW! Saturn 3D Analog USB Adapter
Hardware developer & tinkerer Takusan (aka GEEKY Fab) just recently announced the release of a new USB-C adapter module for the Saturn’s 3D Analog Control Pad, aka the Sega “Multi…
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SHIRO! PODCAST – EP 3: Latter Day 3D Fighters
Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast!Episode 3: Latter Day 3D FightersAir Date: 2023-08-22Patreon Early Access: 2023-07-18
Join Nick, Dave, Pat, and Peter for a great discussion of 3D fighters that came out later in the Saturn’s lifecycle. We t…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Shoichiro Irimajiri on SoA & Saturn – 2022 Lecture Series
Former Sega president Shoichiro Irimajiri recently gave a lecture series at the Forum of Management for Tomorrow on October 20, 2022, focused on his time at Sega in the 90’s.
He speaks candidly about the troubles with SEGA of America concerning the 3…
Community
Community Members Help Power SHIRO! Website
What IS SHIRO!, really..?Is it a podcast? A YouTube channel? A magazine? How about a Discord community?One thing is for sure. SHIRO! has endless potential, and it can be as…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Hideki Sato talks SEGA Saturn
On February 1, 2018, Hideki Sato gave an interview over several days at the Hitotsubashi University Innovation Research Center as part of an oral history on the video games industry in Japan. SEGA-16 & MD SHOCK later translated much of the Japane…
Spotlight
A Close Look at SEGA & Parent Company CSK
Alex Smith of They Create Worlds, a podcast focused on documenting the video game industry as a whole, has released a two-part series on SEGA and its parent conglomerate, CSK…
SHIRO! PODCAST
EDITOR’S CORNER PODCAST – EP 18: Interview with John Linneman of Digital Foundry
SaturnDave & TraynoCo sit down with John to discuss Saturn and a whole bunch of other retro gaming topics!YouTube Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T25ineEJor0
Digital Foundry: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9PBzalIcEQCsiIkq36PyUA
Joh…
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COOL COOL TOON… TRANSLATED!
Almost an entire year ago, on August 10th, 2022, our good buddy Derek Pascarella (ateam) announced that he would be tackling the translation of Dreamcast’s quirky rhythm dance off, Cool Cool Toon. After…
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DreamPi 1.8 DLE Released!
On July 10, 2023, PCWZRD13 announced a new release of DreamPi DLE. The update is mainly in preparation for the upcoming revival of the Capcom KDDI games & Daytona USA…
Community
SHIRO! Co-Ops with NEW Terra Player
SHIRO! has officially partnered with NEW curated streaming service, Terra Player, focused on bringing you all of your favorite gaming-related podcasts and shows in one place. On Thursday, June 1,…
SHIRO! PODCAST
EDITOR’S CORNER PODCAST – EP 17: SEGA of America’s Revealing Self-Audit with Pandamonium Reviews
SaturnDave and PandaMonium discuss takeaways from the recent leak of internal documents from SEGA of America.
Documents PDF:
https://segaretro.org/images/8/8c/SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf
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Irimajiri Clears the Air Regarding SoA/Saturn
Just earlier today, MD Shock reported on the translation of a 2022 lecture by former SEGA president, Shoichiro Irimajiri. This lecture lays everything bare in terms of SEGA of America’s…
Editorial
Exploring SEGA’s E3 1996 Show Floor
Over the years, the game industry has gotten much better about saving and archiving materials and data for future reference. However, that wasn’t always the case, with many pieces of…
News
SEGA of America Internal Documents Made Public
Early on the morning of July 3, 2023 an Internet Archive contributor by the name GoldenDreamcast posted an enormous information dump consisting of 272 pages of previously classified internal documents…
SHIRO! PODCAST
ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: Ken Loh of The Mednick Group – Sega CD, 32X & Saturn Branding & Promo
Original Recording Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019
Ken Loh designed the Saturn logo in addition to many other SEGA print ads and US console packaging. He did the infamous naked lady magazine ad and worked with Hannah Sim, Ice Cube & Ione Sky in th…
SHIRO! PODCAST
WEEKLY LIVE SHOW – w/James The SEGAHolic – June 23rd, 2023
Join SaturnDave and The SegaHolic today @ 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm UK
LIVE WEEKLY SEGA Saturn news and discussion!
Discord Voice Chat Invite: https://discord.gg/w3FQ7pZ6Hy
Buy some awesome SHIRO! Merch at: https://segasaturnshiro.threadless.c…
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SATURN BT – Bluetooth Adapter Overview
We got our hands on this little pre-release prototype of Humble Bazooka‘s NEW ‘SATURN BT‘ wireless Bluetooth adapter, based on the awesome open source BlueRetro project by Jacques Gagnon (aka…
Uncategorized
Playing Your SEGA Saturn Online…
Long before the Dreamcast/PlayStation 2 era, folks were taking their consoles ‘online’ via XBAND, a modem cartridge peripheral released for the SEGA Genesis, Super Nintendo & SEGA Saturn, that allowed…
Community
Red Moon Lost Days Gets Physical Commercial Release
On January 31, 2023 Red Moon Lost Days, a visual novel by Sansigolo & Neuromage Studio, was released to the public. Now, it seems it appears to be getting a…
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INTERVIEW ARCHIVE: David Warhol – RealTime Associates – Creators of BUG!
Original Recording Date: Friday Oct 4, 2019 In this interview from the SHIRO! ARCHIVE, we sit down with David Warhol, the president and founder of RealTime Associates (creators of BUG!…
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INTERVIEW ARCHIVE: Dr. Eric Ameres – Duck Corportation – TrueMotion Video Codec
Original Recording Date: Wednesday Dec 18, 2019 In this interview from the SHIRO! ARCHIVE, we sit down with Dr. Eric Ameres, the former CTO of Duck Corporation (later On2 Technologies)…
Community
ENGLISH PATCH: Shadows of the Tusk
Things sure do move FAST in the Saturn scene… It was just a couple days ago (May 2, 2023) that Team SHIRO!s Knight0fDragon began work on an English Translation Patch…
Editorial
My Gaming Story: Part 1
Growing up in the 90’s was a blast! We witnessed the return of video games from a dire market crash and saw them flourish and go on to break the 3D barrier and beyond. It was a very exciting time in video game history, and I have many stories and mem…
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EDITOR’S CORNER – EP 15: Genesis Games on Saturn?
Sadly, not many Gensis/MegaDrive game franchises crossed over to our beloved Saturn, and those few that did had varying degrees of success. SaturnDave and Peter discuss both the high and low points of the 16-Bit generation franchises we saw on Saturn…
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EDITOR’S CORNER – EP 14: SEGA Saturn in the UK (with The SEGAGuys)
SaturnDave is joined by James the “SegaHolic” & Dan the “MegaDriver” of The SEGAGuys to look back on being a Saturn in the United Kingdom and reflect on both Saturn’s…
SHIRO! PODCAST
EDITOR’S CORNER – EP 13: Saturn Games That Changed Our Minds…
Join Dave & Peter as they discuss several Saturn games that have changed their minds over the years.
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SegaXtreme 28th Anniversary Competition Winners Announced!
On Saturday, February 11th, 2023, Dr. Emerald Nova announced the final standings for the SEGA Saturn 28th Anniversary Game Competition hosted by SegaXtreme. For a nice overview of all contest…
Community
SAROO: A Saturn Flash Cart Re-emerges…
Something that’s been dormant for nearly a decade has just broken from the ice. A few days ago on February 13, 2023, tpunix started adding new commits to a Saturn…
News
GrechTech Retro Rosetta: A Multi-Player BlueRetro Adaptor
GrechTech has recently made available their new RetroRosetta, a modular Bluetooth receiver/controller adaptor designed for retro systems with a focus on robust multi-player support and an aim to avoid e-waste…
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Sakura Wars 2 English Translation Announced, Preview Demo Released
On Friday, January 6th, 2023, we had a surprise announcement LIVE on SHIRO! SHOW that the English translation for Sakura Wars 2 ~Thou Shalt Not Die~ on Saturn was well…