SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

SATURN BT – Bluetooth Adapter

We got our hands on this little pre-release prototype of Humble Bazooka‘s NEW ‘SATURN BT‘ wireless Bluetooth adapter, based on the awesome open source BlueRetro project by Jacques Gagnon (aka DarthCloud). We’ve put it through it’s paces to see how well it stacks up against the current options available. TL:DRThe Saturn BT Adapter is a […]

Retro Kevin

Ghostbusters Special Edition Rom Hack Releases

BillyTime! Games recently released a hack for Ghostbusters on Sega Genesis to fix a significant mistake in the original version, the complete lack of Winston Zeddemore. If you’ve never experienced the game, Ghostbusters for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive was co-developed by Compile and Sega and then initially released in the US in 1990. It is an […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

English Patch WIP: Shadows of the Tusk

Things sure do move FAST in the Saturn scene… It was just a couple days ago (May 2, 2023) that Team SHIRO!s Knight0fDragon began work on an English Translation Patch for Shadows of the Tusk, and here we are on (May 5, 2023) with all options menus and battle dialogs fully translated. [cross-posted from SHIRO! […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

SAROO: A Saturn Flash Cart Re-emerges…

Something that’s been dormant for nearly a decade has just broken from the ice. A few days ago on February 13, 2023, tpunix started adding new commits to a Saturn flash cart project that was thought to be dead 8 years ago, and it surprised folks when it popped up in their notifications. SAROO is […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

SegaXtreme’s 28th Anniversary SEGA Saturn Game Competition

Another trip around the sun means another excellent showing of Saturn homebrew, patches and tools from our amazing enthusiast community! With the submission deadline up and all entries turned in, let’s take a look at SegaXtreme‘s 28th Anniversary Game Competition, organized by Emerald Nova. This contest celebrates 28 years of Sega Saturn and marks the […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

UNREAL Demo on REAL Saturn Hardware

Saturn-wizard, XL2 and crew (Corvusdeux & Ponut) have stunned the fan community with a tech demo that many would have thought to completely impossible… ‘IRRÉEL’ features the first two levels of the 1998 benchmark PC game, UNREAL, painstakingly & meticulously recreated in all of their gritty, late 90’s glory… Remade from the ground up, using […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

‘DEVASTAR’ Open Source IR Light Gun Project

A new Open Source IR Light Gun project by Greg Gallardo called ‘Devastar‘, is in the works and looks to support numerous consoles. While the project apparently got it’s start back in 2019 and has remained pretty quiet despite steady progress, it’s now caught our attention as just a few months ago, Greg decided to […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Saturn YS – Fully Playable in English Thanks to Fan Effort

The remake of classic RPG Ys: The Vanished Omens in the Japanese-only Saturn compilation Falcom Classics is now playable from beginning to end in English thanks to a fan translation effort from Murzik and Crawdkenny on the SegaXtreme forums. Murzik began working on Ys in January by using machine translation until CrawdKenny volunteered to translate […]

SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

Hotel Dusk Precursor ‘Blue Chicago Blues’ – Project Needs Translator

On Friday, November 25, 2022, SegaXtreme member Arjak released their first English v0.1 Demo Patch for the SEGA Saturn FMV game, J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues. A project similar to DeathMask, this translation involves the re-insertion of the original English dialog ripped from the PC port of the game, in addition to translating text in menus and options. This v.01 Demo translates everything […]

Alex Mitchell

PixelFX Announces Release date for DCDigital v2

PixelFX, a cadre of retro hardware developers responsible for the N64Digital and PS1Digital, have announced a tentative release date for their latest project; a new revision of the DCDigital based off the same PixelFX framework as their other projects. The original DCDigital (nee, DCHDMI) is a modification that samples the Dreamcast’s digital A/V signals straight […]