Back in 2018, Dave & Peter from SHIRO! Media Group, decided they would love to create their own game magazine, paying homage to their favorite console of all time. Little did they know the shear amount of work that would be involved in bringing such a dream to reality. However, they kept plugging away at […]
A couple weeks ago, Dr. Emerald Nova came onto the SHIRO! SHOW and let us take a first look at his work on an English translation of Baroque for the Sega Saturn. The version currently released, is fittingly named, “Bastard Baroque”, which is to reflect the basic elements translated to help play through and beat […]
As many of you typically know, VMUs, while a cool concept of memory card, have a couple of problems. The biggest (Or not biggest depending how you look at it) issue are many of them not having a large storage size. Games like Half-Life for example will take up your entire VMU to save, causing […]
As if the Ogre Battle English Translation wasn’t enough, we get a DOUBLE WHAMMY ON THE SAME DAY! Supper on the SEGA Xtreme forums shadow dropped a fan translation for the game Yumimi Mix Remix on the SEGA Saturn, a 1995 port of the original Yumimi Mix on Mega/SEGA-CD. This game is a visual novel […]
Everdrive Store, as the name implies, was an Everdrive distributor for Krikzz’s various Everdrive cartridges. Due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Krikzz has evacuated the country, and has put Everdrive development and shipments on hold for the foreseeable future. This put Everdrive Store in a position where, sadly, they could not maintain the store […]
For a few years now, Video Game Music on Vinyl has made a massive resurgence, with big game releases such as Devil May Cry, to smaller obscure games like LSD Dream Simulator, or even Doshin The Giant getting vinyl releases! One of my many interests, besides SEGA Saturn of course, is collecting and listening to […]
After many years in hiatus, and the need to rely on buying second hand MAS sticks, the MAS Neo is coming soon to a fighting game meetup near you! For a short history lesson, back in the late 90s / early 2000s, home consoles finally caught up technology wise to produce several console perfect ports […]
Over 20 years ago, Alex Kidd and Simon Fang set out and did a partial translation of Ninpen Manmaru on the Saturn. This is technically the first documented fan translation effort for the Saturn, only releasing about 3 years after the system’s demise in the west. Most of the text and cutscenes were translated […]
Over on the Sega Xtreme forums, a user by the name of Murzik recently posted about his efforts in translating the version of Ys 1 in the Falcom Classics I Collection on Saturn, eventually releasing a 0.1 alpha patch on 1/20/22: For those of you unaware, Ys 1 is a bump style RPG (Where […]
A double whammy two days apart, both the famous Radirgy and Chaos Fields for the Dreamcast get fan translations thanks to wiredcrackpot and Derek Pascarella (Ateam) respectively! I guess you could call these, a massive MileStone in fan translations… Radirgy Fan Translation Back on January 1st, 2021, a patch was dropped by wiredcrackpot for the Dreamcast game Radirgy. While this […]
