NEW SAROO Firmware Update Brings BIG Changes
On May 15, 2024, TPUnix released new firmware update V0.5 for the SAROO Sega Saturn Flashcart, bringing some much needed features and improvements. Firm V0.5 Changes Menu screen resolution changed…
Sega & Saturn Related News
On May 15, 2024, TPUnix released new firmware update V0.5 for the SAROO Sega Saturn Flashcart, bringing some much needed features and improvements. Firm V0.5 Changes Menu screen resolution changed…
Vinyl records of the arcade and Saturn soundtracks for Virtua Fighter 2 are available for preorder now, the production company announced Friday. Chicago-based record label Cartridge Thunder says on its…
One of the earliest Saturn emulators is still going strong after it got an update last weekend — its third since the beginning of the year. The emulator, SSF, didn’t…
From new homebrew efforts and cheat code discoveries to FPGA clones and a little Sega history you may not have known about, there were quite a few headlines Saturn fans…
On April 26, 2024, community member Frogbull posed yet another “what if” question for Saturn by teasing a demo build of Naughty Dog’s Crash Bandicoot running on Saturn hardware. Frogbull’s…
Just yesterday, April 28th, JoEngine author, Johannes Fetz, announced a significant update to the Sega Saturn Software Development Kit that now includes support for Voxels. New version of #JoEngine for…
Assault Suit Leynos 2 Saturn Tribute released worldwide Wednesday on digital storefronts as well as in physical form in Japan. It’s the latest in a line of emulated Saturn games…
English-speaking Saturn fans are dancing for joy now that there’s a translation patch for the console’s only full-fledged music rhythm game, Jung Rhythm. It was made by a team that…
High Velocity: Mountain Racing Challenge, an early Saturn exclusive that shipped with a two-player mode, could have let even more people in on the fun if developer Cave enabled a…
Not long after crowning the Steep Slope Sliders champions April 1 as part of its ongoing Community Challenge series, SHIRO! announced changes to future iterations of the popular event. The…
Looking for some light reading material about your favorite 32-bit console? A new fan-made coffee table book has you covered. “The Unofficial Sega Saturn Collection” is a 290-page paperback that…
The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The…
Saturn emulation may be coming to iOS devices after Apple changed their policy on emulators. Apple updated its App Store submission guidelines Friday to include rules for “game emulators” applying…
Critically acclaimed anime film The First Slam Dunk is coming to Blu-ray in the U.S. on June 25, its distributor announced Monday. GKIDS posted a trailer for the release on…
” And there will be… sorrow SAROO! “-Bad Religion There may be a few folks scratching their heads at this article’s title thinking, ‘What exactly is a… SAROO?’ If this…
Saturn gameplay got a bit prettier for users of RetroTINK 4K video upscaler last month thanks to new firmware that automatically detects the resolution that games output. On Feb. 2,…
Homebrewer hotrodx released an update to their Sega Saturn recreation of 1992 Konami arcade beat-em-up X-Men last week. Hotrodx distributed version 0.2 via a Mega.nz link in a YouTube video…
Saturn hacker Bo Bayles is at it again — he’s found another previously unknown cheat code, this time for Shinobi Legions. It activates a debug mode, but you’ll want to…
The results of the SegaXtreme 29th Anniversary Sega Saturn Game Competition were announced today, with homebrew survival horror game Cold Case, the English localization of Stellar Assault SS and a…
In the last month, MiSTer Saturn core developer Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — has drilled down on everything from audio improvements to video RAM accuracy and made big gains…
Jump for joy, Saturn fans — there’s a new English translation patch for one of the console’s exclusive fighting games, Rabbit. The patch released earlier today was made by Derek…
The Switch and PlayStation releases of classic Saturn sidescrolling shooter Assault Suit Leynos 2 are being delayed in the West as a new company steps in to handle their physical…
Back in March of last year, TrekkiesUnite118 created a thread on translating Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers on the SEGA Saturn using the official 3DS translation as a base. One…
An English translation of Silhouette Mirage that’s faithful to the original Japanese script exists at last thanks to fans who released a patch for the Saturn version Wednesday. Rasputin3000 uploaded…
Outrun is one of Sega’s most iconic franchises and one that is as identifiably Sega arguably as much as Sonic or Yakuza. The original arcade game from 1986 also got…
The March Edition of our monthly SHIRO! Community Challenge is here, and it’s time to wax your boards and carve those slopes in CAVE’s snow-shredding classic, Steep Slope Sliders! This…
An English fan translation for the sequel to a notorious Saturn lightgun shooter, Death Crimson, is out now, its project lead announced Tuesday. Derek “ateam” Pascarella said on social media…
Slave Zero X, a brand new retro inspired side scroller is set to drop next week, February 21st on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo…
There have been a flurry of updates to the Saturn core of the MiSTer FPGA over the last month now that its developer, Sergiy Dvodnenko — aka SRG320 — is…
The Saturn community has become accustomed to fans creating translations for Japan-exclusive games and inserting them via patches. But it’s not every day that an official translation is found hiding…
Saturn hacker Bo Bayles, behind such projects as the NiGHTS into Dreams Retro-Bit Controller fix, and finding the playable Dolphin in Burning Rangers, released a patch last week that unlocks…
After years of waiting, we finally have Artemio’s 240p Test Suite now on SEGA Saturn care of hitomi2500, who’s ported it as their submission to SegaXtreme‘s annual Saturn homebrew game…
A new world record in speedrunning Virtual Hydlide was set this week at the Awesome Games Done Quick charity event. Mechalink finished the 1995 Saturn RPG in 27 minutes and…
Retro-bit released updated firmware Saturday for their new wireless Saturn Pro controller to fix input problems when using it on real Saturn hardware, but the “Virtual On Mode” it adds…
For 28 years, North American owners of Saturn sidescrolling platformer Clockwork Knight 2 have had an entire extra game on their discs and never knew it. That changed on Christmas…