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New Sega Consoles?
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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City Connection Announces Wolf Fang Skull Fang Saturn Tribute
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…
Best Of Saturn
Ryouri no Tetsujin: Kitchen Stadium Tour #BestOfSaturn
Move over Gordon Ramsay, Iron Chef: Kitchen Stadium Tour has been cooking on Japanese Saturns since early 1996! Be warned, however — this isn’t really a “game.” You can do…
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NEW Magic Knight Rayearth Revival Project Announced
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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King of the Mountain SHIRO! Challenge
Our SHIRO! Community Challenge for July 2024 is underway, as several members drift their way to prizes and the title of “TOUGE KING” in our latest High Velocity Mountain Racing…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
NiGHTS Grounded for 28th Anniversary…
On July 3, 2024, Saturn game hacker & reverse engineer, Bo Bayles, released a special game patch in celebration of the 28th Anniversary of NiGHTS into Dreams… In this reimaged…
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How Panzer Dragoon Defined an Era
Genre defining is a superlative that describes many games in Sega’s back catalogue, as you may expect from a videogame titan that defined many genres. The Rail Shooter is one…
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The SEGAGuys Join SHIRO!
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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Radiant Silvergun Patch Adds New Scoring System, Two-Button Playstyle
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…
Best Of Saturn
Kingdom Grand Prix #BestOfSaturn
We are living in the Great Saturn Renaissance… Kingdom Grand Prix, the Japan-only shmup/racing game hybrid, has been translated to English! The King has had enough of decades of conflict…
SHIRO! PODCAST
LIVE SHOW: June 21, 2024 – SEGAGuys talk SEGA Rally Documentary, Culdcept
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– PandaMonium: Sega Rally Championship, Episode 33 of 246– Culdcept #BestOfSaturn– Sega Rally — The SEGAHolic Sets a Panda-Inspired…
SHIRO! PODCAST
EDITOR’S CORNER: EP 25 – SEGA RALLY with Pandamonium & SegaGuys
SaturnDave is joined by fellow SHIRO! Nick (PandaMonium) to discuss his latest documentary on Sega Rally Championship along with James & Dan of the SegaGuys. YouTube: Podbean:
Editorial
Sega Rally — The SEGAHolic Sets a Panda-Inspired New PB!
Anyone who knows me, knows I love Sega Rally on the Saturn. In fact, it’s not just my favourite game on the system; it’s my favourite game ever. And while I…
SHIRO! PODCAST
LIVE SHOW: June 14, 2024 – Blast Wind Patch, Duke Nukem Tournament
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Nearly Two Dozen Tilt SHIRO! Community Challenge– Blast Wind Patch Boosts Music, Adds English Dub– FEDA Remake! The…
Best Of Saturn
Culdcept #BestOfSaturn
Another long-running series that got its start on SEGA Saturn, OmiyaSoft’s Culdcept landed on Japanese consoles in late 1997. This is a strategy game done in the style of a…
PandaMonium Reviews
PandaMonium: Sega Rally Championship, Episode 33 of 246
At long last, let us sink our teeth into the rich history of an incredible racing game. Featuring a wealth of archived video, translated interviews and original source material, this…
Community
Hail to the KING for the Next SHIRO! Online Tournament
The upcoming seventh SEGA Saturn SHIRO! Online Tournament is gonna be … Duke Nukem 3D! Since Duke is pretty playable even with high ping, we’re opening this tournament up to…
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SHIRO! Celebrates Online Tournament Champions in Bomberman, Puzzle Bobble 3
SHIRO!’s SEGA Saturn community celebrated two online tournament champions in recent months with SHIRO! Discord server members Gregori Rasputin claiming the top spot in Monday night’s Puzzle Bobble 3 tournament…
Best Of Saturn
FEDA Remake! The Emblem of Justice #BestOfSaturn
FEDA The Emblem of Justice, a 1994 Super Famicom strategy role-playing game, got the Saturn remake treatment exclusively in Japan in mid-1996. The Balformian Empire is rife with corruption and…
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Blast Wind Patch Boosts Music, Adds English Dub
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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Nearly Two Dozen Tilt SHIRO! Community Challenge
SHIRO! Media Group’s Community Challenge closed May 31 with about 150 scores submitted by nearly two dozen gladiators, but only one reigned supreme. May’s challenge centered around two Digital Pinball…
SHIRO! PODCAST
LIVE SHOW: June 07, 2024 – Burning Rangers Co-Op, CD-G Saturn Support, Lost Days 0, Madou Monogatari Best Of
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Burning Rangers Co-Op Mode Reignited- Saturn’s Extended Compact Disc Formats- Madou Monogatari #BestOfSaturn- New Homebrew Announced: Lost Days 0
Follow us on our so…
PandaMonium Reviews
PandaMonium: Sega Rally premieres on Saturnday, June 15th
Hello everyone, PandaMonium here. After multiple unintended hiatus periods, my more than four-hour video about Sega Rally Championship for the Sega Saturn is complete. The live premiere will be on…
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New Homebrew Announced: Lost Days 0
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…
Best Of Saturn
Madou Monogatari #BestOfSaturn
Madou Monogatari (Sorcery Saga) — hidden gem? We say YES! An overhead isometric, gorgeously hand-drawn RPG whose visuals astound whether in-town, in the overworld, in dungeons, and especially in combat….
SHIRO! PODCAST
LIVE SHOW: MAY 31, 2024 – Unused Fighting Vipers Stage, Saturn Mansions, SF Characters in Megamix?
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Unused Farm Stage Found in Fighting Vipers- EDITOR’S CORNER: EP 23 – SEGA Saturn’s Mansion Mysteries- Tamagotchi Park #BestOfSaturn- Cheat Codes, Debugger Found in Figh…
Editorial
Saturn’s Extended Compact Disc Formats
It was never especially well highlighted outside of Eastern markets, but the humble Saturn was in fact built to handle various disc-based media over and above game and music CDs….
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Burning Rangers Co-Op Mode Reignited
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, Debugger Found in Fighters Megamix — Plus Evidence of Street Fighter Characters
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…
Best Of Saturn
Tamagotchi Park #BestOfSaturn
Who remembers the Tamagotchi craze of the mid-’90s? Bandai wasted no time in releasing the relatively simple Tamagotchi Park on the Saturn and included a bundled pink memory cart with…
SHIRO! PODCAST
LIVE SHOW: MAY 24, 2024 – MiSTer Core Update, Fighting Vipers Secrets, Saturn FILM Tool
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
This week, we’ll be discussing:- Radiant Silvergun, Cotton 2 See Improvements in MiSTer Saturn Core- Söldnerschild #BestOfSaturn- New Costume, Debug Screen Discovered in Fighting Vipers- A Sega Saturn …
SHIRO! PODCAST
EDITOR’S CORNER: EP 24 – SEGA Saturn’s Mansion Mysteries
Dave and Pat explore the Japanese mansion mystery genre, which it turns out is quite well represented on the Saturn!
From System Sacom & Capcom to WARP & KOEI, there’s a lot ton of games to discover and discuss!
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Unused Farm Stage Found in Fighting Vipers
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…
Community
Sega Saturn FILM Tools Gets Major Update!
It’s finally here! SegaXtreme.net user TrekkiesUnite118 released an update yesterday to his Sega Saturn FILM Tools application (Version 3.0.0) that seeks to bring an end to the need for classic…
Editorial
A Sega Saturn Success Story
Inspired by the fantastic “Change the Narrative” video and the push to shine a light on the positive aspects of our favourite console, I thought I’d reflect on my personal…