October 2025 – SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
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Electronic Arts famously refused to release games for Sega’s Dreamcast, but people often forget that the company put out dozens of Saturn games. One of those Saturn games was Soviet...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
A promised game that never materialized is finally playable in some form after fans released a prototype of Destruction Derby 2’s Saturn version Sunday night. Longtime member of the SegaXtreme...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:– Under the Microscope: Herc’s Adventures, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Wangan Trial Love– Sega Announces Fighting Vipers Soundtrack...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Saturn gamers enjoying Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom can improve the aural experience with a new patch that replaces the music with higher quality tracks. A fan named Qurt...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The fan who’s spent most of this year porting futuristic racer wipEout to the Dreamcast declared it complete with the version released Sunday. Jnmartin84 uploaded “v2 final” to his GitHub...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
What hasn’t been said about SNK’s sweet, sweet Metal Slug? Initially a NEO GEO game, it was ported to Saturn in early 1997 by Yumekobo and is one of the...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
A new version of SSF released Monday improves its emulation of the Saturn and decreases how often the program crashes. The latest preview version of SSF, called PreviewVer_R37, as well many previou…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
It’s Fighting Vipers’ turn for the 30th anniversary treatment, as a two-CD set of the fighting game’s soundtrack is set for release next month, Sega announced Sunday night. Each CD...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
What do Herc’s Adventures, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Wangan Trial Love have in common, besides being Saturn games? All three games have unreported “staff roll” Easter eggs —...| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- Under the Microscope: Fighting Illusion Shou- New Beta of 240p Test Suite on Saturn Adds Audio, Controller Tests- Ti…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The Sega Saturn port of the essential 240p Test Suite is making its way closer to being feature-complete with the release of version 0.3 beta 8. Here is a download link for the version 0.3 beta 8. …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- New SAROO Firmware Is Feature-Rich — and Flawed- VBT Releases Beta Port of Mac CD Flashback for SEGA Saturn- Under t…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Sign-ups are now live over on the SHIRO! Discord in the #online_tournaments chat for the upcoming online Sega Worldwide Soccer ’98 For Sega Networks Tournament. This time around, to speed thi…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
What started back in August last year, the Worldwide SEGA Saturn SHIRO! 32-person Duke Nukem 3D Saturn NetLink Online Double Elimination Tournament has finally come to an end. We were already out o…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- Circana Director Posts Saturn U.S. Sales Charts- New MODE Firmware Brings Fixes for Saturn, Features for Dreamcast- …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
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 do…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
One of the Saturn’s oldest emulators got its first update in nearly a year last month, with SSF preview version 34 sporting a bevy of technical improvements. Many of the preview versions of S…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Saturn game hacker & reverse engineer extraordinaire, Bo Bayles, digs up long lost treasures that lay hidden away within the code of nearly every Saturn game! You can read more about his journe…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake — it has been in the works for roughly seven years. Forever Entertainment and MegaPixel Studio announced remakes for the first two Panzer Dragoon games in late 2018. …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Taisen Netplay has reached its public beta, opening up a whole new avenue of online play for Dreamcast fans. Taisen Netplay is a tunneling script that leverages the signal from the Dreamcast’s seri…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
“I wanted to make a game about the sensation of flying…” so said then-Sonic Team head Yuji Naka. After pumping out Sonic hit after hit on the Genesis / MegaDrive, the team’s herculean task was to b…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- Jungle Park: Saturn Island #BestOfSaturn- Under the Microscope: Hyper 3-D Pinball- Repair a Twin Stick with This 3D …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Eidos planned to publish Chill, a snowboarding / cryptid hunting game, for both PlayStation and Saturn in 1998. But the Saturn version never materialized, leaving Swagman as Eidos’s final Saturn ti…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- Fenrir Lite Gets First Firmware Update- Under the Microscope: Neon Genesis Evangelion: 2nd Impression & Revoluti…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- Fans Bring the Saturn to Gamescom 2025- After 2 Years of Work, Dragon Ball Z: The Legend is Now Playable in English-…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
New firmware for Terraonion’s MODE optical drive emulator released Wednesday to fix outstanding issues with the Saturn and add features to the Dreamcast. Firmware version 1.05 R3 is the first…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The top video game analyst for market information company Circana posted top 20 charts that give a glimpse into the performance of Sega Saturn games in the U.S. Mat Piscatella, executive director o…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
There’s a new way to fix a broken joint in the Saturn twin stick controller thanks to a fan-made design for 3D printers. Shadowmask, known more in the Saturn community for his work on English…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Doom has famously been ported to just about everything imaginable, but not all ports of ID Software’s megahit first-person shooter were made equal. Both releases of Doom on Sega’s fifth-generation …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The MiSTer FPGA’s Sega Saturn core has split off the ST-V Titan arcade platform into its own core.| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
KoolFiller released an English text/dub hack for the NTSC version of Keio Flying Squadron 2 last month over on SEGAXTREME. This translation patch takes almost all the PAL-exclusive English text and…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The Saturn MiSTer core was updated twice last week with a focus on audio fixes. Developer Sergiy Dvodnenko, aka SRG320, improved the accuracy of sound effects found in Saturn games like Bug, Panzer…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Here’s a look at what’s new this week in the Sega Saturn community. Saturn core added to main MiSTer build The Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA was added Tuesday to the MiSTer’s mai…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Patrick’s walkthrough of the Saturn MiSTer FPGA alpha core After more than a year in development, a preliminary iteration of the Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA was released over the weekend.…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Game saving is broken for anyone using the latest stable Saturn core after the main MiSTer branch was updated last week. Alexey Melnikov, aka Sorgelig, the father of the MiSTer project, pushed a ne…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Released by Scholar in 1996, Minami no Shima ni Buta ga Ita ~Lucas no Daibouken~ (roughly: The Pig of South Island: Lucas’ Great Adventure) sees you control a portly pig. Following an early misadve…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
A new version of Saturn emulator SSF was released last week, making minor fixes to get a couple games running and improve audio recording. It comes after a more major update in July. Thunder Force …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Sega developed and published games for several anime series in the ’90s. In this edition I’m looking at two of them that have heretofore-unreported cheat codes: Neon Genesis Evangelion: 2nd I…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
New firmware was released Sunday for the Fenrir Lite optical drive emulator for Sega Saturn a month after the device’s debut to address problems that didn’t exist for earlier models. Fi…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
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Released in 1998 and fan-translated by Maud in 2025, Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon (Exhilarating Puyo Puyo Dungeon) is a roguelike that sees the player take the role of either Arle, Rulue, or Schezo.…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
In this edition we’re looking at Thunder Force V Sample ROM, a demo disc for Thunder Force V. It normally lets you play a single stage, but there’s data for much more. I made a patch that unlocks e…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Welcome to the SHIRO! SHOW! news updates! This week, we’ll be discussing:- Under the Microscope: Casper- Android Version of Yaba Sanshiro Adds RetroAchievements- GunBlaze S #BestOfSaturn- Sat…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Two romhacking projects look to bring quality of life changes and audio options to Sunsoft’s cult-classic Sega Saturn JRPG, Albert Odyssey: Legend of Eldean. Albert Odyssey is a rather standard tur…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Taki Udon, known for the MiSTer Pi and the upcoming SuperStation One, announced Wednesday that their FPGA devices support loading Sega Saturn discs with the SuperDock add-on. The Saturn support com…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Members of the Sega Saturn SHIRO! Discord may find themselves interacting with users in a new way after the staff added support for the Discross messaging app today! Saturn NetLink/XBand users can …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The Saturn MiSTer core has passed all currently known tests, according to one of the people who works on it, representing how closely it replicates the functionality of an original console. “…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Originally released on PC in 1994 as GunBlaze, the game was ported to Saturn in 1998 with upgraded graphics and retitled GunBlaze S. An RPG done in anime-style, it is set in real-world locations an…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The Android version of Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro now supports RetroAchievements, the service’s community manager announced Saturday. “We have an exciting new partnership to announce…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Over at the Sonic Retro forums, user Black Squirrel pointed out that the PlayStation version of Casper has some cheat codes listed on sites like GameFAQs. He was able to get them to work on the Sat…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
Over this past month the SHIRO! community commanded state-of-the-art High Mobility Armored Combat Systems (HIGH-MACs) across the battlefields of Eurasia in GameArts’ Gungriffon. By the end of…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The Dreamcast homebrew community continues to wow the retro gaming sphere with yet another port of a 1990s classic to Sega’s sixth-generation hardware. Falco Girgis, a developer with credits …| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The Sega Saturn is one of the MOST supported retro consoles when it comes its selection of available ODEs and Flash Carts! However, with so many differences between the available options out there,…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
The lead developer of the MiSTer’s Saturn core added the last five months’ worth of test updates to the main branch yesterday, making them more accessible to users of the FPGA. Updating…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
In this edition I’m examining Gunbird, the vertical shooter from Psikyo. I found four new cheat codes for it: The Test mode menu. NoDeath mode, which makes you invincible. Skip mode, mode all…| SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!
