Miniature cars hit the streets — or rather, the tabletop — in Micro Motor Mayhem, the newest Saturn homebrew game. Developer JBeretta, known for last year’s SegaXtreme Game Contest original game winner Cold Case, uploaded his latest creation Saturday to a SegaXtreme Resources page. “It’s a bit like Micro Machines, a bit like Mario Kart,” […]
There’s a new tool at Saturn fans’ disposal to make development of homebrew games on the console even easier: a software development kit called Saturn Ring Library. Its lead developer, ReyeMe, unveiled SRL in a SegaXtreme thread Friday night. He said its features promise to “do away with many of the headaches of typical Saturn […]
Thanks to developers IQ_132, H0ffman, Blastar, NeoHomebrew and Justingibbins, Neo Geo CD owners are enjoying a recent plethora of releases not seen since SNK themselves supported it in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. In addition to ported and original titles like P.O.W, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Karnov, and Block Panic DX, Neo Geo CD owners […]
H0ffman has knocked it out of the park once again with another Sega System 16 to NEO•GEO conversion, this time of Golden Axe. Just like their previous work with Shinobi, H0ffman has made this release compatible with every iteration of NEO•GEO hardware out there: MVS, AES, NGCD, and a every NEO•GEO flash cart on the […]
While there’s still a long way to go before it is feature complete (or should I say, komplete?) 3DO homebrew developer 3DO HD has dropped a public beta for their 3DO Mortal Kombat 2 port. Putting aside the missing bits for a moment, this is incredibly impressive work and it’s not hyperbole to say that […]
A homebrew port/demo for “Batman Returns”—a SNES exclusive 16-bit Konami beat-em-up from 1993—was released for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive this week, giving Sega fans the chance to experience it on original hardware. The team behind this port includes programmer TiagoSC, artist Gabriel Pyron, and musicians Inglebard and Vector Orbitex. The demo only contains the game’s […]
The latest video showing off progress on a homebrew recreation of a Tomb Raider 2 demo on Saturn comes with plans to expand the scope closer to the final game. In the description of the video uploaded Friday, fan developer RetroRaiderJohn said he’s ditching his original idea to recreate the PC demo of Tomb Raider […]
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 […]
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 […]
One store closes, another opens. What is it? One thing that exists on other modded console scenes that many people wanted to see on the Xbox 360 is a homebrew store. That is — a free store accessible from the console to download community-made homebrew apps, games, and emulators. After years of wishing someone would […]
