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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…
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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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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…
Best Of Saturn
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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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…
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Owners of the original 20-pin model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator can rejoice — a new batch of SaturnSwitchers will go on sale later today. The creator of the…
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From updates on new peripheral hardware and a fan translation to games we’ve reported on before coming to new platforms, we’ve got a solid slate of news items in the…
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Technosoft’s awesome ThunderForce series arrives to 32-bit gaming, with the fifth installment featuring all-new 3D visuals coupled with traditional 2D gameplay. Master your forward and rear shots and take advantage…
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You must play Sega Saturn — or as you might say in Spanish, ¡debe jugar a Sega Saturn! Especially now, with a couple of high-profile Spanish fan translations of Saturn…
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Dating back to 1978 (!), Space Invaders is a simple game of timing as you try to shoot down a horde of invading aliens that are descending ever closer. The…
SHIRO! PODCAST
Original Recording Date: Wednesday, August, 26, 2020
In this interview we’re joined by singer TJ Davis, or as you may well know her, the vocalist behind the iconic Sonic R soundtrack. From tracks such as Super Sonic Racing, which has appeared in seve…
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A fan-made English patch for the Saturn version of first-person roguelike RPG Baroque is now available, coming less than two months after developer Plissken announced he was working on it….
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SHIRO! has officially partnered with NEW curated streaming service, Terra Player, focused on bringing you all of your favorite gaming-related podcasts and shows in one place. On Thursday, June 1,…
Best Of Saturn
Developed by Technosoft and released in Japan in the summer of 1995, Fantastic Pinball Kyuutenkai is an anime-based pinball adventure. Select one of three heroes of Flipperland and play pinball…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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Things sure do move FAST in the Saturn scene… It was just a couple days ago (May 2, 2023) that Team SHIRO!s Knight0fDragon began work on an English Translation Patch…
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Growing up in the 90’s was a blast! We witnessed the return of video games from a dire market crash and saw them flourish and go on to break the 3D barrier and beyond. It was a very exciting time in video game history, and I have many stories and mem…
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SaturnDave is joined by James the “SegaHolic” & Dan the “MegaDriver” of The SEGAGuys to look back on being a Saturn in the United Kingdom and reflect on both Saturn’s…
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Something that’s been dormant for nearly a decade has just broken from the ice. A few days ago on February 13, 2023, tpunix started adding new commits to a Saturn…
Best Of Saturn
In late 1995, the North American versions of Virtua Fighter 2 and SEGA Rally Championship hit retail in special silver foil packaging. No other titles would receive this treatment. While…
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On Friday, January 6th, 2023, we had a surprise announcement LIVE on SHIRO! SHOW that the English translation for Sakura Wars 2 ~Thou Shalt Not Die~ on Saturn was well…
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NOTE: BE SURE TO CHECK BACK FOR NEW UPDATES & INFORMATION ! Another trip around the sun means another excellent showing of Saturn homebrew, patches and tools from our amazing…
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As many in the Saturn community are likely aware by now, the folks responsible for last year’s Bulk Slash localization have been at work on a new Saturn localization project,…
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This little homebrew adventure game, Bridget Bishop, is one of those neat little surprises that seem to come out of nowhere. Much like 7Shades’ Cubecat, we didn’t really hear or…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Bo Bayles, software engineer and writer of Bo Bayles Annex has in the past expressed his deep appreciation for Sonic Team’s Burning Rangers, having explored the game extensively and written…
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Saturn-wizard, XL2 and crew (Corvusdeux & Ponut) have stunned the fan community with a tech demo that many would have thought to completely impossible… ‘IRRÉEL’ features the first two levels…