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Driving Strikers is now on sale physically and digitally for the Dreamcast after going up on publisher Wave Game Studios’ website last Friday. The landmark indie-developed vehicular soccer game is…
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SaturnDave and PandaMonium discuss takeaways from the recent leak of internal documents from SEGA of America.
Documents PDF:
https://segaretro.org/images/8/8c/SegaFY1997BrandReview_US.pdf
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Welcome to a very special SHIRO! SHOW episode! Today, we will be discussing the various information found in the internal SEGA Documents, including unreleased games, the planned E3 booth, internal emails, and much more!
We will be discussing:- S…
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Just earlier today, MD Shock reported on the translation of a 2022 lecture by former SEGA president, Shoichiro Irimajiri. This lecture lays everything bare in terms of SEGA of America’s…
PandaMonium Reviews
Our fellow Shiro, PandaMonium, livestreamed for nearly three hours Friday evening to go page by page through the Sega fiscal year 1997 documents that leaked last week. For those of…
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Editor’s note: This leaked document is very long. We will do our best to ensure this article is at least close to complete upon publication, but please be advised that…
Editorial
Over the years, the game industry has gotten much better about saving and archiving materials and data for future reference. However, that wasn’t always the case, with many pieces of…
Best Of Saturn
World War 2 has just ended, but the belligerents must unite against a mysterious new foe known only as C.A.D.Y. Strikers 1945 is the first of the series, receiving a…
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When Sega of America’s fiscal year 1997 brand review documents hit the Internet on Monday morning, the secrets they revealed sent shockwaves throughout the retro gaming community. But after eluding…
Community
A modder has hacked the PC version of Nights into Dreams to increase its framerate and improve its controls — just in time for the 27th anniversary of the original…
Best Of Saturn
Iron Storm is a World War II battle simulation game that supports the Saturn mouse. Players command armies and participate in various clashes from WW2. The play field is a…
News
Sega’s fiscal year 1997 brand review documents that were uploaded to the Internet Archive this morning offer 272 pages worth of insight into Sega of America’s inner workings when the…
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Early on the morning of July 3, 2023 an Internet Archive contributor by the name GoldenDreamcast posted an enormous information dump consisting of 272 pages of previously classified internal documents…
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MiSTer FPGA owners are rejoicing today after a new update to the hardware emulator’s Saturn core was uploaded to the Internet. Developer Sergiy Dvodnenko, aka SRG320, published new code today…
Spotlight
You must play Sega Saturn, as we say here at Shiro, and that means by any method available. But one method we haven’t covered so far has been emulation on…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Sonic Team Head Leaves Door Open for New Nights, Burning Rangers Games- Riglordsaga 2 #BestOfSaturn- ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: Ken Loh of The Mednick Group – Sega CD, 32X & …
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The Mortal Kombat craze had crested by the time Mortal Kombat Trilogy came out in 1997, and of course, the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 versions came out first. Fashionably late…
Community
Arjak released an update to his ongoing project to localize J.B. Harold Blue Chicago Blues into English, making available a new patch that translates about half of the game. The…
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Original Recording Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019
Ken Loh designed the Saturn logo in addition to many other SEGA print ads and US console packaging. He did the infamous naked lady magazine ad and worked with Hannah Sim, Ice Cube & Ione Sky in th…
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A direct sequel to Mystaria/Blazing Heroes, Riglordsaga 2 never left Japan, sadly. Set years after the events of the original, you play as Mieu and must help a princess escape…
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So you’re saying there’s a chance? That might be Saturn fans’ reaction after Sonic Team creative officer Takashi Iizuka told Video Games Chronicle that entries in the team’s legacy titles…
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Welcome to the SEGA Saturn, SHIRO! Podcast!Episode 2: 2D Platformers on the SaturnAir date: 2023-06-20Patreon Early Access: 2023-05-23
Join Ben, Dave, Pat, and Peter as we investigate notable 2D platformers from early in the Saturn’s lifecycle. We di…
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates with special guest Derek Pascarella (ateam), the mind behind the Nakoruru fan translation, and Lewis from The Dreamcast Junkyard!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Nakoruru – The Samurai Showdown Visual Nove…
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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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Just recently, Derek Pascarella (ateam)’s long awaited fan translation, possibly his Magnum Opus of translation projects, Nakoruru: The Gift She Gave Me, has finally been released! For those of you…
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- Saturn BT Bluetooth Adapter’s Form Factor Is Finalized- ARCHIVE INTERVIEW: Tom Kalinske – Sega of America President & CEO 1990-1996- Croc HD Is in the Works, Series Produce…
Best Of Saturn
The Psychotron is a 1995 Japan-only port of a 1994 American PC FMV game. The in-game text and original English voices were translated / dubbed, meaning the language barrier is…
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Croc — one of the only 3D platformers to grace the Saturn library — is coming to modern platforms, according to one of its original executive producers. Jez San said…
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Original Recording Date: Saturday February 20, 2021This was a LIVE ZOOM panel interview for Long Island Retro’s UPLINK Expo 2021. While we were a bit rushed for time due to the format, we still got in several great questions for Tom, and he shared a …
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An adapter that would allow modern Bluetooth controllers to be used with original Saturn hardware is a step closer to reality after its creator announced the hardware design is finalized….
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Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- EDITOR’S CORNER PODCAST – EP 16: Gaming Nostalgia, OCD & Addiction- Batusgun Releases on Steam — and Only Steam in the West- Wachenröder #BestOfSaturn
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Released mid-1998, Wachenröder is a Japan-only steampunk SRPG. Dark and gritty, the game features quality FMV sequences, very nice still pixel art, and standard 2D SRPG battles that switch to…
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Another Saturn game has entered the modern era with the release of Batsugun Saturn Tribute Boosted last week on Steam. The previously Japan-only vertical shmup is US$29.99 and can be…
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- PandaMonium: New hour long Bug! video- Elevator Action Returns #BestOfSaturn- Introducing The Phøde – A Universal ODE For SEGA Saturn, and Much More!- Prisoner of Ice Gets …