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. […]
A new Sega Saturn-inspired indie racer is set to launch off the starting grid, and it looks to be something really special. LINEAR 直線的 S is the first in a planned series of games from indie startup, Advent Softworks, under their PROJECT S development framework, which aims to replicate Sega Saturn’s graphics rendering methods as […]
Micro Motor Mayhem, Mobile Suit Gundam and the Saturn Ring Library are the big winners in the SegaXtreme Sega Saturn 30th Anniversary Game Competition, as organizer Emerald Nova announced Saturday in a livestream. In the original games category, racer Micro Motor Mayhem beat out tribute game Shenmue: Back in Yokosuka by four points while the […]
Trade your D20s for a Saturn controller because an English translation patch for the Sega Saturn port of sidescrolling beat-em-up Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom is complete. The sole developer, Lirinica, posted the patch to SegaXtreme’s Resources area Saturday. It’s an XDelta patch file that should be applied to the game’s Track 1 BIN […]
A new adventure awaits English speakers now that a translation patch for the Sega Saturn version of Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon is complete. The translator and hacker, Maud, posted a Google Drive link to the patch on social media Monday. Later in the week, it was uploaded to Romhack.ing here. The patch uses a […]
The developer of Sega Saturn optical drive emulator Satiator released two new firmwares recently to fix regressive issues that appeared in an update last fall. Firmware 162, released April 26, fixes crackling Redbook audio heard in some games, while firmware 163, released May 3, addresses instances when the ODE fails to display its menu when […]
Finally, 27 years after its release in Japan, the second entry in the Sakura Wars series on Saturn is now playable in English — thanks to the team of fans that translated Sakura Wars 1 six years ago! Back in 2019, a team led by Noah Stream released the long-awaited fan translation for Sakura Wars […]
After six months of work initially based on a different team’s preliminary translation from more than a decade ago, fan hacker eadmaster has released an English translation patch for Saturn action RPG Princess Crown that he’s labeled version 1.0 — sans a “release candidate” label. Three previous versions of the patch had been labeled 1.0 […]
Frogbull is full of surprises — the latest being a larger Shenmue project on Saturn than he initially teased, and it’s publicly playable, no less. The homebrew developer updated his Patreon with a free post that included a Mega.nz link to download the game, called “Shenmue: Back in Yokosuka.” It uses a collection of WAV […]
