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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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….
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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New Costume, Debug Screen Discovered in Fighting Vipers
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…
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Söldnerschild #BestOfSaturn
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…
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LIVE SHOW: MAY 17, 2024 – VF2 Vinyl, Cho Aniki, SAROO Firmware!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
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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Radiant Silvergun, Cotton 2 See Improvements in MiSTer Saturn Core
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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NEW SAROO Firmware Update Brings BIG Changes
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…
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Cho Aniki #BestOfSaturn
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…
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WEEKLY LIVE SHOW: May 10th, 2024 – Time to Change the Narrative About SEGA Saturn
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates!
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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Virtua Fighter 2 Vinyl Soundtracks Up for Preorder
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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It’s Time to Change the Narrative About SEGA Saturn…
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…