Danthrax is a contributor to the SHIRO! Media Group, writing stories for segasaturnshiro.com when Saturn news breaks and cohosting their weekly live show Fridays on YouTube. While he was a Sega Genesis kid in the ’90s, he didn’t get a Saturn until 2018. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the console’s library as well as the fan translation and homebrew scene. He contributed heavily to the Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS fan localizations, and has helped as an editor on several other Saturn and Dreamcast fan projects such as Cotton 2, Rainbow Cotton and Sakura Wars Columns 2.
We’re still a few months away from the next annual SegaXtreme Saturn homebrew competition, but that doesn’t mean talented members of the community aren’t already showing off progress on their original projects. Let’s take a look at five of them that have been updated recently. Lost Days 0: Queen’s Dream Sansigolo released a trailer for […]
Another Portland Retro Gaming Expo is in the books, and the SHIRO! crew had a great time providing a huge Sega presence there. They began setting up the 1,450-square-foot Sega Lounge on Thursday and finished it up Friday — you can read about that and see photos of it in SHIRO!’s story last week. The Lounge […]
The Saturn MiSTer core has seen a flurry of updates in the last week, partially thanks to an unexpected source — another developer. A developer named Rattboi did a lot of work to add mouse support, and the core’s creator, Sergiy Dvodnenko, aka SRG320, merged that work into the main unstable branch Wednesday. Earlier this […]
New firmware for the Satiator released Wednesday adds new features to the Saturn optical drive emulator, including support for switching discs during gameplay and booting up discs that have been burned or are from any region. Firmware version 161 and menu version 68 can be downloaded from the official Satiator website. Being able to swap […]
A new homebrew software is demonstrating what can be done with the Saturn’s sound processor, giving users control over its capabilities with a simple text-based interface running on the console. It’s called Calypso, and its developer, Neosquid, posted about the utility Aug. 6 on SegaXtreme. It can be downloaded from its Github page, which shows […]
Apple’s App Store approved Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro this month, marking the end of a four-month wait after developer Shinya “DevMiyax” Miyamoto applied in April. “Finally, Yaba Sanshiro was released in the Apple App Store!” Miyamoto said on social media on Aug. 3. “You can play SEGA Saturn games on your iPhone or iPad or […]
A fan-made patch released last Monday redubs Resident Evil into Spanish, likely representing the first non-English fan dub of a Saturn game. It was headed up by Salvi Garrido, a professional voice actor who brought together a collection of talent to dub the survival horror classic on not only the Saturn but also the PlayStation. […]
Another unreleased Saturn game made its way into the public’s hands when Hidden Palace released three prototypes of Hard Boiled on its website Saturday. The prototypes are from June, July and August 1997 and were provided to Hidden Palace by the game’s programmer, David “Pipozor” Saulnier. Hard Boiled is a futuristic rail shooter somewhat in […]
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 VDP2-drawn backgrounds were reported in January as having problems. “I’ve seen that srg320 is working quite intensively on the VDP2 these last days,” said Kubo, […]
High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge, an early Saturn exclusive that shipped with a two-player mode, could have let even more people in on the fun if developer Cave enabled a four-player option that was hidden in the code until now. The four-player mode was unearthed by — who else? — Bo Bayles, who’s been probing […]
