The Sega Saturn continues to provide new experiences for gamers thanks to the many hard-working developers on a mission to draw upon every last bit of the consoles latent power. The Segaxtreme Saturn 26th Anniversary Game Competition, which started on September 1, 2020 with the winner being announced on January 16, 2021 had a slew […]
Due to the poor decisions of both the Japanese and American branches of Sega, western gamers missed out on a ton of amazing Japanese games. Luckily, over the last few years, fans have taken matters into their own hands by translating, fixing, and even improving Sega Saturn games via patches. For example, the original Grandia […]
The Sega Saturn Strategy-RPG, Zanma Chou Ougi: Valhollian (Datt Japan, 1998) has been translated to English by Garrett Greenwalt, Paul Met, Aishsha, and Pennywise. This will be of interest to fans of JRPGs like Shining Force. It was a Japanese exclusive and has never appeared in English until now. Sega Retro has some good information […]
Retro hardware developer Terraonion has released two updates over as many weeks to refine the experience of using their Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Optical Drive Emulator—M.O.D.E. Firmware v1.03R02 landed about two weeks ago and adjusts a few things for Saturn and Dreamcast users. Terraonion has provided this changelog: [SAT] Fix CDDA noise added by previous […]
YZB first brought us a 4MB optimized Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and now they have patched Saturn’s King of Fighters ’95 to bypass its proprietary ROM cart, utilizing common aftermarket 4MB RAM carts instead, just as they did for Ultraman recently. Like Ultraman, KOF95’s custom ROM cart worked flawlessly as a physical copy protection […]
ROMhacker YZB has released another Sega Saturn hack, following up their recent release of the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 4MB RAM Cart Hack. This one is for Ultraman [Ultraman: Hikari no Kyojin Densetsu], a 2D fighter that is one of two Saturn titles requiring its own proprietary ROM cart, along with King of Fighters […]
EDIT 04/02: It looks like the price has gone up since it’s original announcement from $96 to $123.81. EDIT 04/09: There’s been some confusion on the price: The increase was only from $96 to about $103 – The $124 amount includes VAT (20%), which only applies to the EU. Everywhere else will pay $103. EDIT: […]
Introduction With respect to the gaming community, the word “reproduction” typically has a negative reaction. Some regarding reproductions on the same level as software emulation. This being that reproductions are typically associated with devices from eBay having 150 plus pack in games or anything from AtGames. However, there are some that take products and rebrand […]
Professor Abrasive has just posted an update to the Satiator project: The design of the plastic shell is nearing completion and SLA samples have been received. There’s still some tweaks to be made, but it’s looking like all versions of the Satiator (including beta versions) will ship with some kind of plastic shell: Also, there’s […]
Move over BSNES, Yaba Sanshiro looks to be muscling in on your territory. Hot on the heels of the recent advances for HD mode 7 and widescreen options on the SNES, the Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro has added a similar feature. “I implement Hi-Res RBG (Rotate Background) screen emulation operation using the computer shader. […]
