Custom Saturn Fight Stick to Be Auctioned for Charity
A custom Saturn-themed fight stick is up for auction, and the proceeds are going to a good cause. Sporting a white Saturn shape and decals with beloved Japanese Sega mascot…
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A custom Saturn-themed fight stick is up for auction, and the proceeds are going to a good cause. Sporting a white Saturn shape and decals with beloved Japanese Sega mascot…
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…
Another unreleased Saturn game made its way into the public’s hands when Hidden Palace released three prototypes of Hard Boiled on its website today. Photo courtesy of Hidden Palace. The…
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…
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…
Genre defining is a superlative that describes many games in Sega’s back catalogue, as you may expect from a videogame titan that defined many genres. The Rail Shooter is one…
A new patch for Saturn shmup Radiant Silvergun adds features from other versions of the game as well as a brand new scoring system. It was created over the course…
The upcoming seventh SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament is gonna be … Duke Nukem 3D! Since Duke is pretty playable even with high ping, we’re opening this tournament up to…
SHIRO!’s SEGA Saturn community celebrated two online tournament champions in recent months with SHIRO! Discord server members Gregori Rasputin claiming the top spot in Monday night’s Puzzle Bobble 3 tournament…
A patch for Blast Wind — a 1997 Saturn-exclusive vertical shooter from the heralded shmup specialists at Technosoft that only released in Japan — came out over the weekend that…
SHIRO! Media Group’s Community Challenge closed May 31 with about 150 scores submitted by nearly two dozen gladiators, but only one reigned supreme. May’s challenge centered around two Digital Pinball…
The developer of the first commercially sold Saturn homebrew game, Red Moon: Lost Days, has announced its prequel. The game, Lost Days 0, was announced during the Homebrew Games Summer…
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….
Cheat codes, a debug screen and evidence of cut characters in Fighters Megamix have been revealed after a hacker unearthed them Thursday. Just a week after finding secrets in Fighting…
It’s finally here! SegaXtreme.net user TrekkiesUnite118 released an update yesterday to his Sega Saturn FILM Tools application (Version 3.0.0) that seeks to bring an end to the need for classic…
A bevy of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA have targeted problems with specific games’ graphics. One prominent one that was fixed recently was Cotton 2, whose…
One of the earliest Saturn emulators is still going strong after it got an update last weekend — its third since the beginning of the year. The emulator, SSF, didn’t…
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…
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…
SHIRO! announced its next Community Challenge in May will feature two titles in the Digital Pinball series: Last Gladiators Ver. 9.7 and Necronomicon. Co-organizer Gregori Rasputin said May’s Community Challenge…
I was never really great when it came to video games. As the youngest of nine, my brothers and sisters always seemed to have a leg up on me…
English-speaking Saturn fans are dancing for joy now that there’s a translation patch for the console’s only full-fledged music rhythm game, Jung Rhythm. It was made by a team that…
High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge, an early Saturn exclusive that shipped with a two-player mode, could have let even more people in on the fun if developer Cave enabled a…
Not long after crowning the Steep Slope Sliders champions April 1 as part of its ongoing Community Challenge series, SHIRO! announced changes to future iterations of the popular event. The…
Looking for some light reading material about your favorite 32-bit console? A new fan-made coffee table book has you covered. “The Unofficial Sega Saturn Collection” is a 290-page paperback that…
The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The…
Homebrewer hotrodx released an update to their Sega Saturn recreation of 1992 Konami arcade beat-em-up X-Men last week. Hotrodx distributed version 0.2 via a Mega.nz link in a YouTube video…
Saturn hacker Bo Bayles is at it again — he’s found another previously unknown cheat code, this time for Shinobi Legions. It activates a debug mode, but you’ll want to…
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?…
SHIRO!’s own SaturnDave and TraynoCo spend most of their time playing and hyping Saturn, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love Sega’s tiny arcade-in-a-box, the Dreamcast, too! They joined Brian…
The results of the SegaXtreme 29th Anniversary Sega Saturn Game Competition were announced today, with homebrew survival horror game Cold Case, the English localization of Stellar Assault SS and a…
In the last month, MiSTer Saturn core developer Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — has drilled down on everything from audio improvements to video RAM accuracy and made big gains…
Jump for joy, Saturn fans — there’s a new English translation patch for one of the console’s exclusive fighting games, Rabbit. The patch released earlier today was made by Derek…
Many Sega Saturn fans race like it’s 1995 on a regular basis thanks to Sega’s sensational classic Sega Rally Championship. But what if there was another way? Race like its…
Frogbull, the indie developer who has teased us with demos of Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy 7 on Saturn as well as Metal Gear Solid 2 on Dreamcast, is…