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The first update for the English translation patch for Shining Force III in more than a year and a half was made public July 19, adding the ability to choose…
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Innovative Saturn audio-only adventure Real Sound: Kaze no Regret has come to modern platforms — audiobook ones, that is. Real Sound released on Audiobook.jp and Amazon Audible in Japan Wednesday…
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Started back in July of 2021, Sega Mania represented a return to physical print magazines for SEGA fans and it kicked off a bit of an avalanche of similarly SEGA…
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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…
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Two new Sega related consoles were recently announced, though by teams currently unconnected with Sega. The first is the GF1 Neptune, a system designed and modeled on the original official…
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The next title in City Connection’s Saturn Tribute line of modern re-releases will be a double pack — a pair of shoot-em-ups named Wolf Fang and Skull Fang, the publisher…
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In celebration of its 30th Anniversary, CLAMP has announced a NEW ‘Revival Project’ for this classic and beloved anime series While Kodansha and TMS Entertainment have officially announced the return…
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Back in April 2020, in the earliest days of the global pandemic, fate brought together two veteran UK gamers and SEGA fans on Twitter. A chance meeting in a thread…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
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It seems Fighting Vipers held at least one more secret. Three days after publishing a patch to enable a previously unknown Pai-like costume for Honey and Backup Debugger screen, Saturn…
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The Japanese version of Sega Saturn fighting game Fighting Vipers famously has more unlockables than the U.S. and even PAL versions. More unlockable characters, unlockable portraits — or different unlockable…
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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…
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On May 15, 2024, TPUnix released new firmware update V0.5 for the SAROO Sega Saturn Flashcart, bringing some much needed features and improvements. Firm V0.5 Changes Menu screen resolution changed…
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Vinyl records of the arcade and Saturn soundtracks for Virtua Fighter 2 are available for preorder now, the production company announced Friday. Chicago-based record label Cartridge Thunder says on its…
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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…
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From new homebrew efforts and cheat code discoveries to FPGA clones and a little Sega history you may not have known about, there were quite a few headlines Saturn fans…
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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…
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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…
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Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute released worldwide Wednesday on digital storefronts as well as in physical form in Japan. It’s the latest in a line of emulated Saturn games…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Saturn emulation may be coming to iOS devices after Apple changed their policy on emulators. Apple updated its App Store submission guidelines Friday to include rules for “game emulators” applying…
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Critically acclaimed anime film The First Slam Dunk is coming to Blu-ray in the U.S. on June 25, its distributor announced Monday. GKIDS posted a trailer for the release on…
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” 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…
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Saturn gameplay got a bit prettier for users of RetroTINK 4K video upscaler last month thanks to new firmware that automatically detects the resolution that games output. On Feb. 2,…
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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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
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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…