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This week, we’ll be discussing:- Johnny Bazookatone #BestOfSaturn- Progress Report: Saturn Fan Translations
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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…
Best Of Saturn
Early 1996 saw Johnny Bazookatone land on the Saturn. A tough little 2D platformer with some run-and-gun elements, it sports pre-rendered visuals that scream “made in the 1990s.” Johnny’s out…
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- NEW! Saturn 3D Analog USB Adapter- Thunder Force V Among Games Working With New MiSTer Core Update- New Debug Features Found in Nights into Dreams- Quarterback Attack wit…
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Here’s some news of note to Saturn fans from this week. Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Delayed Chunithm adds Sega Saturn startup sound remix to song list Aliexpress version…
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November 1995 was bountiful for Digital Pictures fans, as the firm released what would be their entire Saturn catalogue that month — including the peculiar Quarterback Attack. Essentially an FMV…
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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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The developer of the Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA, Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — pushed out a new build yesterday to make improvements to a variety of games’…
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Hardware developer & tinkerer Takusan (aka GEEKY Fab) just recently announced the release of a new USB-C adapter module for the Saturn’s 3D Analog Control Pad, aka the Sega “Multi…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Shoichiro Irimajiri on SoA & Saturn – 2022 Lecture Series- SHIRO! PODCAST – EP 3: Latter Day 3D Fighters- Nippon Daihyou Team no Kantoku ni Narou! Sekaihatsu Soccer R…
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What’s new in the world of Sega Saturn fandom this week? Read on and find out! New stock of 21-pin SaturnSwitchers to go on sale Monday Will’s Console Modifications announced…
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In mid-1998, SEGA collaborated with Enix to bring you the delightful Soccer RPG: the crossover you never knew you needed. (Full title: Nippon Daihyou Team no Kantoku ni Narou! Sekaihatsu…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- New Brackets Solve the Fenrir Gap Problem- News Roundup for the Week of August 7- Hideki Sato talks SEGA Saturn- SAGE 2023 Trailer Highlights Nights Fangames
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Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast!Episode 3: Latter Day 3D FightersAir Date: 2023-08-22Patreon Early Access: 2023-07-18
Join Nick, Dave, Pat, and Peter for a great discussion of 3D fighters that came out later in the Saturn’s lifecycle. We t…
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Former Sega president Shoichiro Irimajiri recently gave a lecture series at the Forum of Management for Tomorrow on October 20, 2022, focused on his time at Sega in the 90’s.
He speaks candidly about the troubles with SEGA of America concerning the 3…
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Here are a few stories of interest to the Saturn community from the past week. Nights LEGO set hits 1,000 supporters A Nights into Dreams playset that was submitted as…
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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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On July 9th, 2023, Gregori Rasputin announced in a thread that him, Soniccd123, and Malenko started work on inserting the PS1 translation by Working Designs into the Saturn version of…
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Silhouette Mirage appeared on Japanese Saturns in late 1997 courtesy of fabled software house Treasure. A fast-paced action platformer, the gimmick here is that the heroine possesses traits of both…
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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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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! Live at Game On Expo 2023!
This week, we’ll be covering a couple news stories, and looking at some of the amazing stuff here at Game On Expo in Phoenix, AZ.
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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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On February 1, 2018, Hideki Sato gave an interview over several days at the Hitotsubashi University Innovation Research Center as part of an oral history on the video games industry in Japan. SEGA-16 & MD SHOCK later translated much of the Japane…
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Here are a few of the smaller Saturn-related stories from my metaphorical reporter’s notebook from this week. Spanish translation of Nanatsu shows signs of life The person translating Nanatsu Kaze…
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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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April 1997 saw the Japan-only release of Jaleco’s Fantastep, a 3D adventure game featuring 2D sprites. Heavy on the language barrier, the adventure is more of a point-and-click affair and…
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The developer of the MiSTer FPGA’s Saturn core has saved the day with his latest update — it adds the ability to save progress in games, a long-requested feature among…
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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…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- COOL COOL TOON… TRANSLATED!- EDITOR’S CORNER PODCAST – EP 18: Interview with John Linneman of Digital Foundry- Crows: The Battle Action for Segasaturn #BestOfSaturn- Radi…
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It’s been a busy news week for the Saturn scene, so let’s take a look at a few of the odds and ends from the last several days. Main MiSTer…
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Alex Smith of They Create Worlds, a podcast focused on documenting the video game industry as a whole, has released a two-part series on SEGA and its parent conglomerate, CSK…
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Radiant Silvergun is coming soon to the PC according to a store page that appeared on Steam last night. No release date is listed on the Steam page, but Gematsu…
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Based on a manga (as so many Japanese Saturn titles are), Crows: The Battle Action for Segasaturn is a very late 1997 Japan-only delight. A beat-em-up featuring super-deformed characters, it…
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SaturnDave & TraynoCo sit down with John to discuss Saturn and a whole bunch of other retro gaming topics!YouTube Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T25ineEJor0
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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…