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Argonaut founder Jez San is someone who knows his way around gaming technology. He coded the best-selling Starglider when he was still in his teens, bringing 3D visuals to hardware that had traditionally struggled with anything that wasn't 2D. Later, he would join forces with Nintendo to help...

No matter how highly we rate our personal hygiene, it's impossible to keep your hands totally clean 100% of the time – and when you think that multiple people may have handled some of our old-school controllers over the past few decades, it's inevitable that they will pick up at least some funky...

Given that efforts to translate the Saturn title Princess Crown into English stalled for over a decade, there's been a remarkable flurry of activity in this area in recent months. SamIAm and Cyber Warrior X – two hackers who joined forces to translate the game back in 2012 – have recently...

The talented modder who gave Saturn Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII and Crash Bandicoot has pulled off the same trick with Shenmue to celebrate 30 years of Saturn. Frogbull has put together a facsimile of the Dreamcast classic on Sega's 32-bit console, which is impressive in itself – but...

Update [Sun 24th Nov 2024, 6:35am]: Although Toree Saturn was scheduled to arrive this year on the Switch, developer Siactro has announced the game has now been delayed until early 2025. The quality would have apparently "suffered a lot" had it been released next month. Here's the message in...

Classic SNES RPG EarthBound, known as Mother 2 in Japan, celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year — yes, really, no need to pinch yourself. But Nintendo and Hobonichi will be continuing to celebrate this seminal game later this month with a variety of promotions and merchandise in...

Yaba Sanshiro, a popular Sega Saturn emulator, is set to release on Windows PCs to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sega's 32-bit system. Here are the key points: 1. Developer devMiyax announced this upcoming release on social media. 2. The Windows version will include various updates and...

In an exciting development for retro gaming enthusiasts, a new adapter is set to breathe new life into the classic Sega Saturn 3D Control Pad. Humble Bazooka, a retro designer and manufacturer, has announced their latest project: a plug-and-play adapter that will transform the beloved Sega...

The SuperSega FPGA console is an upcoming all-in-one retro gaming system that can play games from a wide range of classic Sega consoles, including the Master System, Genesis/Mega Drive, Saturn, and Dreamcast. According to the latest reports, a prototype of the SuperSega has been shown running...

The City Connection is bringing two more "Saturn Tribute Boosted" games to Nintendo Switch this month - a 2-in-1 bundle of the Data East titles "Wolf Fang" and "Skull Fang". The "Wolf Fang" game allows players to pilot a customizable mech "Armored Cavalry", combining different parts to build...

Sergiy Dvodnenko's Saturn FPGA core has surprised a lot of people with its level of accuracy – after all, this was a venture that many assumed would never happen on the MiSTer FPGA platform. However, Dvodnenko's hard work continues and the core has just passed another important milestone in...

Our friends over at The Dreamcast Junkyard were lucky enough to speak with former Sega peripheral development manager Kenji Tosaki recently, and he mentioned that the company had very early ideas about creating a motion-sensing controller that would have pre-dated the Wii by over a decade. When...

Update [Mon 12th Aug, 2024 18:30 BST]: YouTube channel SegaGuys has been given access to a playable build of Crash Bandicoot on Saturn by its developer Frogbull, which you can see above. Original Story [Mon 29th Apr, 2024 09:30 BST]: Modder and homebrew developer Frogbull has ported...

Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro is now available on Apple's App Store. It costs $4.99 to purchase; there's no free version, as is the case on Android devices. "Finally, Yaba Sanshiro was released in the Apple App Store," says developer Shinya "DevMiyax" Miyamoto. "You can play SEGA Saturn...

Real Sound: Kaze no Regret, a 1997 audio-only video game for the Sega Saturn, is getting a new lease of life in audiobook form. It's coming to Audiobook.jp and Amazon Audible in Japan Wednesday for 2,200 Yen and runs for around three hours and 31 minutes. It even includes an audio message from...

Wave Master is republishing the soundtrack to Technosoft's Thunder Force V in time to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sega Saturn. "The ultimate sound source of the masterpiece " #サンダーフォースV " that will leave its mark in the history of STG will be revived in a remastered 2024 version,"...

While it has since gone down as one of Saturn's best games, it's easy to forget that NiGHTS into Dreams was greeted rather coolly by some sectors of Sega fandom back in the day – mainly because it was a game by Sonic Team that didn't feature Sonic. Thankfully, those same disappointed punters...

Sega Saturn classic Radiant Silvergun has been patched in order to bring it closer to its modern-day ports in terms of features (thanks, Sega Saturn Shiro). Developed by Alex "trap15" Marshall, the patch has taken a year to produce and adds in the Ikaruga-style chain scoring system that was...

City Connection has revealed the next entry in its Saturn Tribute Boosted series, and it's a two-game pack featuring Data East's Wolf Fang and Skull Fang. These two games are often considered to be part of the loose "Kuuga" trilogy, which also includes the 1989 vertically-scrolling shmup, Kuuga...

Game Description: Blast Wind is an action shooter game for the Sega Saturn. Translation Description: This is a translation patch with the following features: Newly added English narration for the intro sequence A newly dubbed voice actor for the leader of the GORN Empire Script injections...