The deadline for the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition passed on Friday, shortly followed by competition coordinator EmeraldNova revealing the entries, which totaled more than two dozen. There were 25 entries across three categories, including nine original games; nine hacks, patches and translations; and seven utilities. The full list is as follows: Original […]
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 […]
Get ready to shuffle your deck of magic cards and save the world — an English fan translation patch for Saturn-exclusive card-battling RPG Arcana Strikes is available to download now. Team Meduza published the patch on their website Friday. For anyone having trouble accessing that site, the patch also can be downloaded from Romhack.ing. The […]
On Thursday, March 6th, Ced, the creator of the Fenrir Optical Drive Emulator released a the long-awaited Beta Preview Build of his WiFi SMB Firmware via the Fenrir Discord Server that finally enables stable game streaming over WiFi via an SMB network share! WARNING: This is a BETA preview build, and some folks are experiencing […]
The creator of the Satiator released two new menus over the weekend that improve how the optical drive emulator handles folders for Saturn games that use multiple discs. Professor Abrasive uploaded Menu 70 to his device’s official wiki website Saturday. It fixes an error in how the Satiator sees subfolders within a game’s folder. “[Doesn’t] […]
Eadmaster continues to make progress on his English fan translation patch for Saturn action RPG Princess Crown, updating it twice in the last month to fit more text on screen, translate signs and more. The latest version, 0.9, uploaded Feb. 16, can be downloaded from the project’s GitHub. The patch should be applied to the […]
Get ready to defend White Base from the Principality of Zeon, Saturn fans — the English fan translation patch for Mobile Suit Gundam is finished and downloadable. The patch’s lead developer, Shadowmask, posted the patch yesterday in SegaXtreme’s Resources area. It can be applied to an original copy of the game using version 1.91 of […]
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 […]
A new version of Kronos released over the holidays, but it could be its last after its main developer said he’s deprioritizing work on the Saturn emulator. Kronos 2.7 was made public Dec. 31 in a SegaXtreme thread posted by its tester, Benjamin Siskoo. It can be downloaded for 64-bit operating systems and 32-bit ones […]
