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SONIC The Hedgehog 3: Movie Review
Bring your inner child. SONIC 3 goes full on kid mode! * THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW & ALL IMAGES ARE APPROVED BY PARAMOUNT. Back in 2020, I wondered just…
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Phantasy Star Online: The Aleron Ives EP – SegaXtreme Game of the Month for December 2024
This is a crosspost of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. The SegaXtreme Game of the Month for December 2024 is…
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Returning to Resident Evil in 2024
Long-time readers may be aware that my very first foray into the original Resident Evil occurred in 2019, with no prior experience. Playing through the game as Jill Valentine, I…
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Sonic X Shadow Generations: SegaXtreme Game of the Month for November 2024
This is a cross post of a regular segment posted on SegaXtreme.net. Join in on the conversation on the SegaXtreme forums. The game of the month for November 2024 is…
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SEGA Touring Car Championship is GOOD!
To the uninitiated, SEGA Touring Car Championship was an unconventional arcade racer, based on the German DTM, crafted by a handpicked team of AM3 developers and released to the world…
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Retro-Bit Saturn Wireless Analog Pro Unboxing & First Looks
SHIRO! recently unboxed Retro-Bit’s NEW 2.4Ghz Wireless Analog Pro Controller for SEGA Saturn, and we’re here to share with you our opinions so far. (Thanks to the folks at Retro-Bit…
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Why Didn’t She Just Get the Drain Cleaner??
Phantasma-what now? Phantasmagoria is a mid-1995 PC point-and-click graphic adventure from the studio that essentially pioneered the genre: Ken and Roberta Williams’ Sierra On-Line. Written by Roberta, mastermind behind the…
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Review: RGB SCART to YPbPr Component Video Converter
Shiro Discord member Moosetrack spotted a relatively inexpensive (~$20) RGB SCART to YPbPr component video converter available from various sellers on AliExpress like this one. I decided to take a…
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SATURN BT – Bluetooth Adapter Overview
We got our hands on this little pre-release prototype of Humble Bazooka‘s NEW ‘SATURN BT‘ wireless Bluetooth adapter, based on the awesome open source BlueRetro project by Jacques Gagnon (aka…
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Replacement Cases: A New Challenger…
For at least a couple years now, NTSC-U Saturn (and Sega CD) fans have had a go-to source for their long box replacement cases. Back around 2018, an American gentleman…
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2: MOVIE REVIEW
“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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Return to the World of Lunar
A deep-dive into the first Lunar game on the Saturn.
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Steamgear Mash Attack!
Released in late September 1995, Steamgear Mash took the gaming world by storm. Shooting straight up the Japanese gaming charts, the game sold quicker than any other 32-bit title had,…
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For the Revolution of the World!
SHIRO! SHOW Recap The Japanese Saturn library dwarfs both Western sets by a factor of 5; for every game in the North American or European library, there were roughly five…
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Burning Rangers – Spontaneous Funbustion
One of the most sought after games in the Saturn collection. It is exclusive to the system and created by our very own Sonic Team. If you have an opportunity…
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Virtua Cop – Virtua Robbers
One of the leading names of the arcade and the Sega Saturn, Virtua Cop brought railshooters to a whole new level of awesome! Taking down the criminal element of Virtua…
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Omakase! Savers: The ghostly Saturn adventure inspired by Magic Knight Rayearth (feat. FilmCow)
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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The Parodius game Konami almost localized to North America
It was possibly the closest Konami got in history to publishing a Parodius game in North America. A “deluxe pack” featuring near arcade-perfect ports of the second and third installments…
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NEW Retro-bit 2.4 GHz Wireless Pads!
Our friends at Retro-bit sent the SHIRO! crew several of their latest 2.4 GHz wireless pads to try out, and here is the rundown from yours truly. Purchase links are…
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: More than a Film…
* THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW! You can relax… SONIC the Hedgehog is a GOOD movie, but that’s not the only reason you should go see it… Can you believe…
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Retro-bit Controller Review
Packaging: I commend Retro-bit for doing an EXCELLENT job of following the SEGA templates from back in the day. The Saturn boxes are somewhat larger than the original boxes but…