Released patches for Virtua Cop 1 & 2 on Saturn that, among other things, disable the white flash triggered by light guns for the benefit of setups that don't require it for hit detection (e.g. MiSTer FPGA + GUN4IR/Sinden). Such patches already exist for Model 2, I'm happy to bring them to Saturn :)

Everyone knows that *Sonic R* is a racing game. But... maybe it doesn't have to be? My new *R&R mod*: * Adjusts controls to make exploration easier. * Gives you unlimited time to look for Emeralds and tokens. * Lets you unlock extra characters without racing. 32bits.substack.com/p/sonic-r-th...

Our friend Mr. Frederickson lost his battle with terminal cancer over the weekend. He'd worked for a year to translate the sequel to his favorite Sega Saturn RPG "Mystaria: The Realms of Lore" but passed it to others in his final days. His story: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/01/19/f...

Released patches for House of the Dead on Saturn; in the process of making the "activate red blood" patch, I discovered a hidden Japanese mode! Now the JPN version can be played with the three blood colors that are absent from both revisions of its retail release :) segaxtreme.net/resources/th...

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Unbeknownst to pretty much everyone, the first-person shooter "Vigilant Paradise" was released for Saturn in November 2025; AFAIK the developer never teased this on SegaXtreme or anywhere else so it's really quite astonishing! It's currently on sale for $7 on itch.io www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXw2...

Closing out 2025 in the best way possible with a dumb Breaking Bad edit

The final day

Merry Christmas!

Airs Adventure now sits atop the Saturn fan translation list, not bad for a kusoge ^^ www.segasaturnshiro.com/saturn-commu...

even in this toxic hellscape of a year, we can still enjoy the original Christmas Nights website nights.sega.jp/nights1/cont...

At first I was mad that Bluesky randomly unfollowed me from @locationscoutsgccx.bsky.social... until I realised that I now have a mini collection of Game Center CX episodes to watch :D

How it started | How it's going

Our friend and well-known Sega Saturn community member Mr. Frederickson could use help with his medical bills. He's been terminally diagnosed with stage 4 synovial sarcoma, a rare type of cancer. Please consider supporting the GoFundMe that his family and friends set up: gofund.me/fa589a248

PSA for Fenrir Lite users: firmware v1.7.1 that fixes support for Fenrir Loader Kai (and a navigation bug in the official menu) has been released, grab it at the link below. www.fenrir-ode.fr/firmware/

Finally got an S Rank as Nicholai in Resident Evil 3 The Mercenaries, this seemed impossibly hard at first so it was super satisfying to pull this off! Huge thanks to @classicrebirth.com for making RE great again, now I should get that S in the game proper ^^

Ring girls in K-1 Fighting Illusion are clearly Pokémon fans. Yep.

Last hour to grab the excellent 2D action platformer Gravity Circuit from Epic Games for the low, low price of free. Don't miss it! store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/grav...

Very nice! It took me a minute to remember where the melody is from ^^ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPcT...

Got a sub-6 run in Battle Game which is pretty good with Chris 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xRe...

This arrangement is destined to live rent free in my head until the day I die and I wouldn't have it any other way www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiQ...

👍New arranged soundtrack by Saori Kobayashi 👎Forever Entertainment

Hear, hear! Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is an absolutely joyous experience from start to finish, SEGA will have a hell of a time trying to exceed (or even match) it with the new Jet Set Radio

Silksong hype is real steamdb.info/app/367520/c...

The source code of the SlaveDriver Engine, powering the 1996 game PowerSlave for the Sega Saturn, is now published under the GPLv3. github.com/Lobotomy-Sof... archive.org/details/slav...

I adapted paul_met's widescreen hack for Saturn Virtual-On to the NetLink and SegaNet versions, here's the latter being played online in 16:9. Thanks to SEGA RPG FAN for creating the NetLink tunnel and matchmaking service that makes this possible in 2025 and beyond! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRva...

Posted a collection of codes and patches that activate widescreen in 20+ Saturn games; if you've ever lamented the fact that very few Saturn titles officially support widescreen then please check this out! (if this never crossed your mind, then... check it anyway ^^) segaxtreme.net/threads/satu...

Released patches for all regional releases of Virtua Racing on Sega Saturn which fix the music playback in replay mode. Many thanks to YZB for creating the fixes and giving permission to release them in patch form 👍 segaxtreme.net/resources/ti...

As a reward for beating the hidden rhythm game in Shining the Holy Ark, I requested @bbayles.bsky.social to push this article covering "Omakase! Savers" to the front of the queue. Among other cool discoveries, it features a debug menu code that will be in the next version of Pseudo Saturn Kai :)

Challenge accepted, incredibly cool find by @bbayles.bsky.social !

My good friend @saturncafealpha.bsky.social, the creator of Pseudo Saturn Kai, is now on Bluesky. Please consider following this awesome dude, he's done (and continues to do) so much for the Saturn scene!

A sobering thought...

Magenta screen of death in Panzer Dragoon Saga which is triggered at the spot where Baldor Queen resides with random enemy encounters disabled via debug mode

English translation patch for the Saturn port of "Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom" has been released! Considering that a US release was planned but eventually cancelled, it's very fitting that the patch dropped on the 30th anniversary of the Saturn's US launch :) segaxtreme.net/resources/du...

Happy 30th anniversary of the Sega Saturn's US launch! The Japanese library gets tons of praise and deservedly so, but the US library is highly remarkable in its own right. Here are thirty games proving just that. #sega #saturn #segasaturn

✅ Mega Man ❌ MegaMan ❌ Megaman ✅ Rockman ❌ Rock Man ❌ RockMan

Today I completed the first game and then this was announced... guess you could say ai was in psync

Step aside Prime 4

The Takenobu Mitsuyoshi interview is now online! A sincere thank you to Mitsuyoshi-san for agreeing to speak with me, to SamIAm for facilitating the conversation and translating the interview, to Korimaru for connecting me with SEGA, and Burntends for connecting me with Kori. youtu.be/fQoZG4DgJSM

Next version of Pseudo Saturn Kai will have basic light gun support for menu navigation via the trigger and Start buttons. I wonder which was more challenging, the implementation of this feature by cafe-alpha or my one-handed wielding of the light gun? :D

No context @pandamonium.bsky.social

Here's a map that I made to navigate the Chamber of Birth in La-Mulana 10/10 would go insane again

I did pretty good in this one! It was a lot of fun learning the events and then putting everything together in 11 Event Heat. Also, I really appreciate the button mashing events for warming up my body during the cold month of January ^^

The most wholesome thing I've seen so far in 2025; Game Center CX staff members perform the title theme of Journey to Silius on NES and Chief Arino jumps in with improvised vocals :D Huge thanks to @locationscoutsgccx.bsky.social for the English subbed releases, you're the best!

Japanese and USA versions of Winter Heat for Sega Saturn have a file named "SATFF.TXT" containing messages from the developers. Here's a machine translated message from graphic designer Yasushi Kameda; thankfully, humanity wasn't wiped out and they are still alive to this day :)

@speedynoelle.bsky.social Hi, I released an improved version of your Shinobi-X 60Hz hack one month ago :) segaxtreme.net/resources/sh...

You gotta love it when game developers take the time to craft charming details that 99.9% of players will never notice ^^ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ78...

Released patches for Shinobi-X on Sega Saturn which make the PAL version run at the correct speed when playing in 60Hz; enjoy Richard Jacques' soundtrack which is arguably superior to the original music in the NTSC versions, while playing in 60Hz as God intended :) segaxtreme.net/resources/sh...

Happy birthday Ezra Dreisbach! In the Saturn port of the Egyptian-themed first-person shooter Powerslave, a picture of the esteemed programmer appears on the title screen when the system clock is set to December 10. This Easter egg is also present in Exhumed (Europe) and Seireki 1999 (Japan)