TraynoCo (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Saturn Developer XL2 Confirms Metal Gear Solid Prototype Is Real

Originally written by Danthrax over at SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! A prominent Saturn homebrew developer whose code was used in part to make a prototype of Metal Gear Solid running on the Saturn confirmed that the prototype is real. XL2 said Friday in the SHIRO! Discord server and Saturday on SegaXtreme that the prototype’s developer, Frogbull, […]

TraynoCo (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Two Secret Characters (NBA Jam Announcer and Fox) Found Playable in NBA Jam Tournament Edition on SEGA SATURN in 2023!

Today, Saturn hacker Malenko behind Drift King ’97 and NBA Jam TE Walrus Edition, dug through the data on NBA Jam TE, and found two secret characters that were never discovered before. Famed NBA Jam announcer Tim Kitzrow, and a character simply known as Fox:     While Malenko was looking through the character data […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Talking Games & DF Retro with John Linneman

SHIRO! sat down with John Linneman of Digital Foundry for the first of (hopefully many more) retro gaming conversations. We talk beginnings at Digital Foundry, the creation of his Retro Series, favorite consoles & games and several interesting graphics & performance idiosyncrasies of the 32-Bit consoles. While this chat didn’t get too far into the […]

TraynoCo (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Tactics Ogre Saturn English Fan Translation Released!

The big one, the upper echelon Saturn game is finally here, Tactics Ogre translated for Saturn! Team Medzua has previously worked on Saturn fan translations such as Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Linkle Liver Story, and even the other Quest Corporation title, Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen.

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

SAROO: A Saturn Flash Cart Re-emerges…

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 flash cart project that was thought to be dead 8 years ago, and it surprised folks when it popped up in their notifications. SAROO is […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

‘DEVASTAR’ Open Source IR Light Gun Project

A new Open Source IR Light Gun project by Greg Gallardo called ‘Devastar‘, is in the works and looks to support numerous consoles. While the project apparently got it’s start back in 2019 and has remained pretty quiet despite steady progress, it’s now caught our attention as just a few months ago, Greg decided to […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Saturn YS – Fully Playable in English Thanks to Fan Effort

The remake of classic RPG Ys: The Vanished Omens in the Japanese-only Saturn compilation Falcom Classics is now playable from beginning to end in English thanks to a fan translation effort from Murzik and Crawdkenny on the SegaXtreme forums. Murzik began working on Ys in January by using machine translation until CrawdKenny volunteered to translate […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Hotel Dusk Precursor ‘Blue Chicago Blues’ – Project Needs Translator

On Friday, November 25, 2022, SegaXtreme member Arjak released their first English v0.1 Demo Patch for the SEGA Saturn FMV game, J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues. A project similar to DeathMask, this translation involves the re-insertion of the original English dialog ripped from the PC port of the game, in addition to translating text in menus and options. This v.01 Demo translates everything […]