A new version of Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro 2 was released late last week.
The developer, DevMiyax, announced Friday that version 1.9 was live, bringing with it bug fixes and newly bootable games.
Bugs fixed include duplicated frames in Cotton Boomerang, a missing loading screen in Contra: Legacy of War and graphics problems in Bishoujo Hanafuda Mintinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari Special.
Games such as SD Gundam G Century S, Full Cowl Mini Yonku Super Factory and Galaxy Fraulein Yuna 3 are newly playable on the emulator.
You can download the Android version here and the Windows version here.
DevMiyax said the improvements come after working on emulating the Saturn’s memory more accurately.
“I measured memory speed of each bus on the real SEGA Saturn. and reflected it to emulation. As the result, compatibility has been significantly increased!”
— DevMiyax
Yaba Sanshiro was last updated March 27 when version 1.8 was released. That version implemented emulation of the Saturn SH-2 processors’ cache memory, which drastically increased the number of games that could be played.
Yaba Sanshiro began development seven years ago as a fork of Yabause, an emulator that is no longer actively worked on, to bring it to Android devices. A PC version was released about a year later, seeing regular updates alongside the Android version.
Its name was changed to Yaba Sanshiro 2 in April 2021 after Google blacklisted the original app for including Action Replay cheats.
Danthrax is a contributor to the Shiro Media Group, writing stories for the website when Saturn news breaks. While he was a Sega Genesis kid in the ’90s, he didn’t get a Saturn until 2018. It didn’t take him long to fall in love with the console’s library as well as the fan translation and homebrew scene. He contributed heavily to the Bulk Slash and Stellar Assault SS fan localizations, and has helped as an editor on several other Saturn and Dreamcast fan projects such as Cotton 2, Rainbow Cotton and Sakura Wars Columns 2.
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