A new firmware for the SAROO — an optical drive emulator cartridge for the Saturn — is making waves for its new features as well as its caveats. The firmware was made by a SAROO developer named YZB. Rather than being an “official” update to the optical drive emulator’s onboard firmware, YZB released it as […]
A classic RPG with a unique Saturn port gets new life for English speakers now that a fan has patched the DOS script for Wizardry VI into the Japan-only console release of Wizardry VI & VII Complete. The patch can be downloaded from its SegaXtreme Resource page where it was uploaded last week. The download […]
There’s a new way to fix a broken joint in the Saturn twin stick controller thanks to a fan-made design for 3D printers. Shadowmask, known more in the Saturn community for his work on English translation patches, designed the replacement joint and sent the file to Malenko, who uploaded it to his Thingiverse account where […]
New firmware was released last Sunday for the Fenrir Lite optical drive emulator for Sega Saturn a month after the device’s debut to address problems that didn’t exist for earlier models. Firmware 1.7.0 can be downloaded here from the official Fenrir website. It’s the first update for the Lite, the latest model of the Fenrir […]
Dragon Ball Z: The Legend English Translation version 1.0 — a patch two years in the making — dropped on SegaXtreme Aug. 25th. You can download the patch here! This patch was completed by a single fan, wonder-inc, who credits nine other members of the community for their help in making this translation patch a […]
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru, the Saturn run-n-gun infamous for being one of the most expensive on the aftermarket, now has an English translation patch thanks to a fan who’s new to the hacking scene. Exxistance uploaded the patch in SSP format to his GitHub on Thursday. The patch changes the title to “Psychic Killer Taromaru” because […]
The source code for the Saturn version of Lobotomy Software’s first-person shooter engine was uploaded to GitHub and the Internet Archive last Saturday. Called the SlaveDriver engine, it powered three FPSes on the Saturn: PowerSlave (also called Exhumed in PAL territories), Duke Nukem 3D and Quake. It appears to be the version of the engine […]
The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore yesterday. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being sold for €50 (about US$58). The webstore says the Fenrir Lite is on backorder and orders will ship starting Aug. 1. That’s because Ced, the […]
Back on April 30, TZMWX announced the open source availability of his WUXI Drive Switcher project to GitHub for free public use. WUXI is an optical drive channel switcher for Sega Saturn that can switch freely between the CD drive and optical drive emulators (ODE), such as Rhea, Phoebe, and various versions of Fenrir have […]
SHIRO! already knows Saturn games are art, and now an arts festival agrees. Red Moon: Lost Days, the first commercial Sega Saturn homebrew game, has been accepted into the ninth ECRÃ Festival of Cinema and Experimental Art. The ECRÃ Festival is a respected Brazilian experimental art and cinema event that’s heading into its ninth year. […]
