Professor Abrasive recently posted a status update to the Satiator project. Here’s a quick summary: New PCB’s arrived and are better, but not perfect. Bootloader testing essential, almost complete Menu source code will be available on github, with an emulator to test Patreon subscribers can read the full update here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bashing-c-22518615
Professor Abrasive just posted another update in regards to the Satiator project. In short, the current board manufacturer is pretty much refusing to make the boards correctly, so he’s moving along to a better company that can also handle large orders. There’s a longer lead-time, but much better scale-ability. Also, he’s finalizing the process of […]
Professor Abrasive just posted a status update for the Satiator project. Bare boards for the first official beta of the Satiators have arrived, but sadly without beveled edges. As discussed on the Retro Roundtable, this could cause unnecessary wear and tear on your cartridge connector, so Professor Abrasive is waiting for a replacement shipment to […]
Professor Abrasive has posted a lengthy update about his Satiator project. In short, he needed to change the main chip, as the one he was previously using has gone end of life. More info is on his Patreon page and if you’re interested, I did an interview with him last year to talk about the […]
The Sega Saturn is one of the MOST supported retro consoles when it comes its selection of available ODEs and Flash Carts! However, with so many differences between the available options out there, it might be hard for some folks to decide which device is best for them… While some might prefer to make a […]
Download Rhea/Phoebe Sorter: https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Rhea-Phoebe-Sorter Back in 2015, hardware engineer Deunan released his Rhea and Phoebe ODEs (optical drive emulators) for the Sega Saturn. These two represent the first of their kind on Sega’s fifth-generation home gaming console and, interestingly enough, they remain the most stable options to this very day, with the least number of […]
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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 […]
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On February 21, 2025, Saturn hardware hacker, TZMWX announced that he is currently testing his own newly developed switcher that aims for universal compatibility with ALL existing Saturn ODEs (optical drive emulators), including Rhea, Phoebe, MODE and all revisions of Fenrir. TZMWX did mention a disclaimer in regard to compatibility with MODE, in that the […]
