Feature articles, including game showcases, detailed retrospectives and reviews.
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Saturn-wizard, XL2 and crew (Corvusdeux & Ponut) have stunned the fan community with a tech demo that many would have thought to completely impossible… ‘IRRÉEL’ features the first two levels…
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Ghoulish greetings, Shiromaniacs! It’s Halloween time again, and that means time to grease back your jet-black hair, light your dark candles, take out the Ouija board, and ask it what…
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Pat and I got a chance to sit down with the dudes (Ron, Rich & Andy) from Retro-Bit this past weekend at Portland’s Retro Gaming Expo, and we were able to get our hands on…
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WARNING: While this article contains NO spoilers to the main story plot, it DOES contain images and “Easter eggs” that some might consider spoilers, so click away if you do…
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This article has been re-published, with permission, from its original source. IntroPart 2: Hello, Saturn!Part 3: Set up a Game BASIC Development VMPart 4: Run, Load, and Save Programs via…
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Viewers decided I should try out Sonic 3, and unfortunately I’m not very good at it.. Thought I was pretty good back in the day, but viewers (And my skills)…
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While the Saturn had a variety of great controllers and peripherals, a vast majority would agree that the 3D Analog Control Pad was perhaps one of the greatest. Dreamcast also…
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“SONIC 2 was so much fun! It was hilariously bonkers and not remotely grounded in reality.., which is great! The film is self-aware of its outlandish premise and rolls with…
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On this very special episode of the SHIRO! SHOW, SaturnDave sits down with RetroRGB to chat about the Saturn Game Competition, and just about gaming in general.Check out RetroRGB at:www.retrorgb.comhttps://www.youtube.com/user/retrorgbhttps://twitter.com…
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Hello! I hope you’re still enjoying the Bulk Slash English localization patch and have had a chance to unlock and level up some of your favorite navigators. Let us know…
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NOTE: BE SURE TO CHECK BACK FOR NEW UPDATES & INFORMATION ! As another year passes and we close the book on 2021, we at SHIRO! are absolutely psyched for…
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Hi everyone! I’m Greg, known in some circles as “Lacquerware,” and I was the project lead for the Bulk Slash unofficial English localization patch. The good guys at Shiro have…
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After many months of waiting (And years of only being able to play in Japanese), Bulk Slash finally has an English Localization that makes the game 100% playable and understandable…
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If you don’t spend much (or any) time on Facebook these days, you might not be aware of a new and intriguing project that has been underway over the past…
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With SegaXtreme’s Game Competition right around the corner (celebrating Saturn’s 27th Anniversary), submissions are already starting to trickle in, and one of the first to be submitted for consideration is…
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DID YOU KNOW?: In addition to pushing the Saturn hardware with it’s release of the Hi-Saturn Navi w/LCD attachment, Hitachi also made a 24″ standard definition anamorphic CRT (the Hitachi…
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25 years ago, SEGA and Red Company brought the love and war RTS/Dating Sim/Visual Novel series Sakura Wars into the world for the first time on Saturn!First conceptualized in 1990…
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In the mid-’90s, NEXT GENERATION Magazine, also known as “EDGE” in the UK, brought loads of insightful news and industry coverage to the average gaming consumer. From developer interviews to…
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Scavenger was one of the most exciting game development houses to come out of the mid-90’s. Formed from the roots of the amiga hacking and demo scene, their Zyrinx team…
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Those who know me well are probably aware of my slight obsession with SEGA and Saturn-related gaming magazines… I suppose I’m just a big history nerd, and these old rags…
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SHIRO! SHOW Recap Out of the box, Saturn offered incredible sound hardware, enabling musicians and sound designers to create complex and multi-layered tracks. It’s custom Yamaha YMF292 (aka Saturn Custom Sound…
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SHIRO! SHOW Recap Every community has its high profile members… You know, the ones who become something of a “household name”, for projects that push homebrew development forward? These are…
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While the Saturn Homebrew scene is still in it’s relative ‘infancy’ compared to other existing homebrew development communities (take the Mega Drive or Dreamcast for example), it’s had a bit…
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Welcome to the fourth and final installment on our series on SEGA Saturn videogames with notable or impressive 3D graphics involving either polygons or bitmap sprites. This list includes software…
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SHIRO! SHOW Recap In the early 2000s, anime fans encountered an anime called Sakura Wars, a twenty-six episode anime or four episode ova that mixed pilotable robots (mechs), demons, a…
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SHIRO! SHOW Recap Welcome to part three in our four-part SEGA Saturn 3D showcase. In this episode, we dig a little deeper into the software library, highlighting a few popular…
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SHIRO! SHOW Recap Welcome to part two of our four-part showcase of memorable 3D videogames for SEGA Saturn. Once again, we will be taking a look at a variety of…
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A strange curiosity buried by the sands of time, The Sacred POOLS was an attempt by SegaSoft to revive the long dying format of FMV games by incorporating adult themes,…
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SHIRO! SHOW Recap Hello to all the readers at SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! My name is Daniel Thomas MacInnes, an artist and writer, founder of Ghibli Blog and DT MEDIA, and…
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In the rough and tough online world of homebrew development, there needs to be some bold individual who will stand up and speak for the ponies! Err… that is to…
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Sometimes it takes a revolutionary from humble beginnings to spark a movement against an opposing force considered too powerful to overcome… Spartacus, Joan of Arc, Andrew Jackson.., XL2..? Okay, Okay..!…
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This article includes machine translated text from Japanese interviews. The original Japanese text will be shown beneath each translation. If you are fluent in Japanese and believe there is a…
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Saturn homebrew development has seen a flurry of new activity over the past few years, as tools have improved and interest in the platform has grown. Projects like XL2‘s HellSlave…
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On the “playing field” of life, the toughest opponent is often ourselves… A simple mistake can have punishing results, but it’s only in learning from our most painful mistakes that…
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By now, it’s more than likely that most gamers have glimpsed this old test-build demo footage of Shenmue (originally Virtua Fighter RPG) running on the Sega Saturn and featured in…