The latest update for the Fenrir ODE was released a few days ago and it brings bug fixes as well as a few new features. Sega Saturn enthusiasts who own one should definitely look into this firmware as it makes the user experience much nicer. Both the 20 pin and 21 pin versions can be […]
Due to the poor decisions of both the Japanese and American branches of Sega, western gamers missed out on a ton of amazing Japanese games. Luckily, over the last few years, fans have taken matters into their own hands, translating, fixing, and even improving Sega Saturn games via patches. The original Grandia and Lunar: Silver […]
The Sega Saturn Strategy-RPG, Zanma Chou Ougi: Valhollian (Datt Japan, 1998) has been translated to English by Garrett Greenwalt, Paul Met, Aishsha, and Pennywise. This will be of interest to fans of JRPGs like Shining Force. It was a Japanese exclusive and has never appeared in English until now. Sega Retro has some good information […]
Retro hardware developer Terraonion has released two updates over as many weeks to refine the experience of using their Sega Saturn and Dreamcast Optical Drive Emulator—M.O.D.E. Firmware v1.03R02 landed about two weeks ago and adjusts a few things for Saturn and Dreamcast users. Terraonion has provided this changelog: [SAT] Fix CDDA noise added by previous […]
YZB first brought us a 4MB optimized Castlevania Symphony of the Night, and now YZB has patched Sega Saturn’s King of Fighters ’95 to bypass its proprietary ROM cart, utilizing the common aftermarket 4MB RAM cart instead, just as they did for Ultraman recently. Like Ultraman, KOF95’s custom ROM cart has worked flawlessly as a […]
ROMhacker YZB has released another Sega Saturn hack, following up their recent release of the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 4MB RAM Cart Hack. This one is for Ultraman [Ultraman: Hikari no Kyojin Densetsu], a 2D fighter that is one of two Saturn titles requiring its own proprietary RAM cart, along with King of Fighters […]
8BitMods will be producing a batch of 50 Fenrir Sega Saturn Optical Drive Emulators (ODE), followed by a run of 500 once things settle down. An ODE is essentially a flash cart for disc based systems that boots games from an SD card. Wanna hear some good news at last? @Ced2911’s Fenrir ODE for the […]
Professor Abrasive has just posted an update to the Satiator project: The design of the plastic shell is nearing completion and SLA samples have been received. There’s still some tweaks to be made, but it’s looking like all versions of the Satiator (including beta versions) will ship with some kind of plastic shell: Also, there’s […]
Move over BSNES, Yaba Sanshiro looks to be muscling in on your territory. Hot on the heels of the recent advances for HD mode 7 and widescreen options on the SNES, the Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro has added a similar feature. “I implement Hi-Res RBG (Rotate Background) screen emulation operation using the computer shader. […]
Deunan has just posted sale times for his “Phoebe” Sega Saturn optical drive emulator. They’ll go on sale this Saturday, 18:00 CEST. That should be noon in NYC and 9AM in LA, making this easier for people in North America to pick up. Read the full blog post here: https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/electric-lion/
