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McWill Game Gear Full Mod Kit

Many years after McWill released the first modern screen mod for the Game Gear, he has come back with an updated design that finally allows for integer scaling that utilizes the full size of the screen.  Known as the McWill Ver 4.0 or simply “640×480”, this modification is available as both a traditional screen mod […]

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Saturn Grandia English Translation Release Candidate Published

Since September of 2018 TrekkiesUnite118 has been working on an English translation patch for the Saturn version of the JRPG Grandia.  I’ve written about this project a couple of times before when it passed a milestone, and now the story seems to be finally coming to a close. Early this month thanks to some absolute […]

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Save-Game-Copier project by slinga-homebrew

A developer going by the name “sling-homebrew” has created a save game manager for the Sega Saturn and provided it as open source on Github (https://github.com/slinga-homebrew/Save-Game-Copier). It’s still considered “Alpha” but already seems to be fully functional.  The developer used the Satiator fork of the Yabuse emulator to integrate Satiator support – giving owners of […]

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Deunan Teases FM Towns PC ODE

Deunan, the designer of the official GDEMU (Dreamcast), the Phoebe and Rhea (Saturn) and the Doc Brown (FM Towns Marty) ODEs has just teased a work-in-progress picture of an ODE for the FM Towns tower PCs tentatively called the “Grey Tower Wizard”. The new device is designed to be installed internally without requiring removal of […]

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Grandia Saturn Translation Progress Update and Unofficial Box Art

TrekkiesUnite118’s English translation of the Saturn version of Grandia is moving along at a good clip with just a few outstanding items to be done until it’s considered complete. The most recent official status update from the forum: Fix all the voice synchronization issues. Fix the alignment issue with “Your Initiative” and “Ambushed!” in the […]

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Project To Localize Saturn Version of Grandia

Over on the SegaXtreme forums a member by the name TrekkiesUnite118 has started a thread about using the English translation from the Playstation version of Grandia to localize the Japanese Saturn version. https://segaxtreme.net/threads/translating-grandia.24330/ In its day Grandia was an incredible technical achievement and remains one of my favorite games of all time.  I have always […]