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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…
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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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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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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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
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…
Best Of Saturn
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
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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 …
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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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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
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…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
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…
Best Of Saturn
Söldnerschild’s Ayami Kojima cover art gives strong Symphony of the Night vibes, but this SEGA and Koei collaboration is nothing the like. A strategy game set in medieval Europe that…
SHIRO! PODCAST
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- Virtua Fighter 2 Vinyl Soundtracks Up for Preorder- Cho Aniki #BestOfSaturn
– NEW SAROO Firmware Update Brings BIG Changes
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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…
Best Of Saturn
If The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Saturn ever made a baby, it might be named Cho Aniki (Big Brother). A shmup, it features homoerotic digitized man-sprites on hand-drawn…
SHIRO! PODCAST
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- EDITOR’S CORNER PODCAST – EP 23: Arcades with SLX & SEGAGuys- Dark Seed #BestOfSaturn
– It’s Time to Change the Narrative About SEGA Saturn…
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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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The SEGA Saturn is almost 30 years old… WOW!Today marks the 29th anniversary of its North American launch on May 11, 1995. It’s hard to believe that it’s been that…
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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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A mid-1995 Japan-only release based on the PC original, the psychological horror Dark Seed is a point-and-click adventure in the style of H.R. Giger. As a successful executive, you wake…
SHIRO! PODCAST
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- NEW JoEngine Update Includes Voxel Support- Frogbull Teases Crash Bandicoot on Saturn…
– Gale Racer #BestOfSaturn
– News Roundup for the Week of April 29
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SaturnDave & TraynoCo are joined by Mel (Sega Lord X) and Dan & James of the SEGAGuys to discuss what it was like growing up with arcades in the 80’s & 90’s, and what remains of the arcades today. We talk SEGA’s arcade legacy and their mo…
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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…
Best Of Saturn
A man with a reputation and a mission, you are the Gale Racer! Released to Japanese gamers in 1994, Gale Racer is based on the 1991 SEGA arcade game Rad…
SHIRO! PODCAST
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This week, we’ll be discussing:- Jung Rhythm Gets English Translation Patch- Mega Man X3 #BestOfSaturn
– Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute Hits Xbox, Steam Storefronts in the West
– The SEGAGuys get…
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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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SHIRO! announced its next Community Challenge in May will feature two titles in the Digital Pinball series: Last Gladiators Ver. 9.7 and Necronomicon. Co-organizer Gregori Rasputin said May’s Community Challenge…