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A prominent Saturn homebrew developer whose code was used in part to make a prototype of Metal Gear Solid running on the Saturn confirmed that the prototype is real. XL2…
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[Edit, Oct. 18: The veracity of the footage discussed in this story has been confirmed. See our story on it here. The original story remains unedited below.] A hobbyist modder…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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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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…
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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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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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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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Last week brought a major update for the Sega Saturn FILM Muxer, originally released last November, by homebrew developer TrekkiesUnite118. Known for his pursuit of audio and video quality in…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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,…
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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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Arjak released an update to his ongoing project to localize J.B. Harold Blue Chicago Blues into English, making available a new patch that translates about half of the game. The…
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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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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…
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Let’s take a look around the world of Saturn fandom to check out the smaller stories that have happened in the past week. Playable build of Zygo homebrew game posted…
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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…
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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…
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The mobile version of Yaba Sanshiro for Android phones was updated Saturday. The developer, Miyax, overhauled his Saturn emulator to Version 1.10.1, switching the way it renders graphics from OpenGL…
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A new version of Saturn emulator Kronos is available to download, its lead developer announced today. The developer, whose screen name is Benjamin Siskoo, made a thread on SegaXtreme that…
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A new homebrew game blending a visual novel with RPG elements released today for the Saturn — Red Moon: Lost Days, the culmination of two years of development by Neuromage…
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As the latest game in the Sonic franchise, Sonic Frontiers sports modern graphics with high polygon counts. But thanks to a mod released yesterday, PC players can insert the creamy…
Best Of Saturn
In late 1995, the North American versions of Virtua Fighter 2 and SEGA Rally Championship hit retail in special silver foil packaging. No other titles would receive this treatment. While…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
A prototype of Burning Rangers has been unearthed, and it offers a playable look at the two-player versus mode that was stripped from the game before its release. It’s barebones,…
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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…
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NOTE: BE SURE TO CHECK BACK FOR NEW UPDATES & INFORMATION ! Another trip around the sun means another excellent showing of Saturn homebrew, patches and tools from our amazing…