Guide
If you’re interested in watching videos on your Saturn, here are a few tips to get you started. Through this tutorial you’ll gain a working understanding of the technical limitations…
News
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…
News
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
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…
News
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…
Community
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Community
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 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…
Community
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…
Community
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…
Best Of Saturn
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….
Community
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….
Community
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 …
News
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
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…
News
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…
News
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…