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Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: A magazine demo disc has a non-playable demo of Burning Rangers …which is based on prerelease build of the entire game …that we can make playable This…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: New cheat codes for Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal. There’s a cheat menu that gives you invincibility, unlimited weapons, the ability to skip levels,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
After looking at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 in an previous edition of Rings of Saturn, I decided to check out Neversoft’s other titles. I chose Skeleton Warriors, the skeleton-themed…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In Taito’s Elevator Action arcade games, you play as special agents trying to prevent terrorists from blowing up stuff. In order to do that, you have to shoot a lot…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
It’s Christmas NiGHTS season once again! In this edition, I’m describing a new patch / hack that I’ve made that alters the Sonic Into Dreams present for Christmas NiGHTS Into…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The SoulCalibur Tokubetsu Taikenban demo disc restricts you to playing two characters in one mode, but I’ve made a patch to remove these limitations. The disc is…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I found some cheat codes for Off-World Interceptor Extreme that have stayed hidden for 29 years. The codes also work on the the original 3DO version, Off-World…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future has some previously unrecognized cheat features that activate based on what you name your save file. Using Ghidra and Python,…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: The House of the Dead Taikenban normally lets you play part of the first chapter. But we can patch the demo to let us play more of…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Approximately 20% of my mental capacity was dedicated to finding, using, and thinking about cheat codes when I was a kid. I first submitted a code to SegaSages.com when I…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’ve got debug menu hacks for three Saturn RPGs: Riglordsaga 2 Shiroki Majo: Mouhitotsu no Eiyuu Densetsu Magic Knight Rayearth These menus let you alter game parameters…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition, I find some long-unknown passwords for Alien Trilogy, and one of them is surprisingly rude. Here’s the comprehensive list of passwords with new ones highlighted: I also…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Blazing Heroes (a.k.a. Mystaria, a.k.a. Riglord Saga) has a hidden set of debug and cheat menus. They allow you to be invincible, warp to anywhere in the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’ve got some new cheat codes for Hardcore 4×4, the off-road truck racing game: One code enables debug mode with a bunch of different functions. Some others…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition I’ve got details about some new cheat codes for Saturn games: Doom: technical information about the transparent walls code. Revolution X: a new cheat options screen. Earthworm…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: There are a couple of demos of Goiken Muyou: Anarchy in the Nippon, the goofy 3D fighting game designed by Virtua Fighter enthusiasts. The demos have superficial…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: I’ve made a patch to enable a hidden debug menu in Golden Axe: The Duel. It lets you play as the final boss, display hit boxes, adjust…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Xing Entertainment did a series of ports of old arcade titles for the Saturn and PlayStation under the Arcade Gears banner. One of the titles was Gun Frontier, a Taito…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
In this edition: Savaki, the mixed martial arts fighting game, has some previously undocumented button codes to unlock extra characters and debug features. In addition, there’s a a more-or-less full…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The Saturn version of Metal Black is a port of the 1991 Taito arcade game. In its story, Earth is suffering under an uneasy truce with a hostile alien force….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Dungeon Master Nexus was a Japanese Saturn exclusive, but through the magic of fan translation patches, you can play it in English. This patch sparked some renewed interest in the…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
The ominous parallels I started looking at Dark Savior in response to a reader question: Is there a sixth parallel? In case you don’t know, Dark Savior is a Saturn RPG with an unusual…
Guide
If you’re interested in watching videos on your Saturn, here are a few tips to get you started. Through this tutorial you’ll gain a working understanding of the technical limitations…
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
Original Source: Lets localize Terra Phantastica! – (at SegaXtreme.net) Lets start with the obvious. The likelihood of me actually finishing this [ Terra Phantastica ] is pretty much non-existent. I…
Guide
Are you having issues installing the English translation pack for Sakura Wars: Columns 2, or cannot get the 100% and DLC save files to install? Then check out Ben’s latest…
Guide
Alright! After two decades, we are tossed a bone from our brother, the Dreamcast! After so long, they released an unfinished E3 demo of the planned and abandoned Castlevania: Resurrection….
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When Retro-Bit released it’s 2.4Ghz wireless Saturn pads back in November of 2019, their choice to use the original Japanese pad design was met with approval across the board from…
Editorial
Let’s face facts: Saturn titles are amongst the most expensive retro games around, and unless you were keen to collect them when they were current or shortly thereafter, money becomes…
Community
In the surgery room… Shiro team member Natalie Marie is quite handy when it comes to operating on the innards of your favourite console. In the first of a series…
Editorial
Monday, January 29, marked the 20th anniversary of Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG’s original release in Japan. Panzer Dragoon Saga – as it would later become known to English-speakers in the…