The big one, the upper echelon Saturn game is finally here, Tactics Ogre translated for Saturn! Team Medzua has previously worked on Saturn fan translations such as Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Linkle Liver Story, and even the other Quest Corporation title, Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen.
Something that’s been dormant for nearly a decade has just broken from the ice. A few days ago on February 13, 2023, tpunix started adding new commits to a Saturn flash cart project that was thought to be dead 8 years ago, and it surprised folks when it popped up in their notifications. SAROO is […]
A new Open Source IR Light Gun project by Greg Gallardo called ‘Devastar‘, is in the works and looks to support numerous consoles. While the project apparently got it’s start back in 2019 and has remained pretty quiet despite steady progress, it’s now caught our attention as just a few months ago, Greg decided to […]
The remake of classic RPG Ys: The Vanished Omens in the Japanese-only Saturn compilation Falcom Classics is now playable from beginning to end in English thanks to a fan translation effort from Murzik and Crawdkenny on the SegaXtreme forums. Murzik began working on Ys in January by using machine translation until CrawdKenny volunteered to translate […]
On Friday, November 25, 2022, SegaXtreme member Arjak released their first English v0.1 Demo Patch for the SEGA Saturn FMV game, J.B. Harold: Blue Chicago Blues. A project similar to DeathMask, this translation involves the re-insertion of the original English dialog ripped from the PC port of the game, in addition to translating text in menus and options. This v.01 Demo translates everything […]
When most people think of Nights Into Dreams, most to mention the Sega Saturn original or the Wii sequel. But there’s actually a surprisingly high number of sequels, ports and spin-offs that most never heard of. In his latest video, St1ka (that’s me), along with Nick from RetroBreak talk about a total of 8 obscure […]
Back in 2018, Dave & Peter from SHIRO! Media Group, decided they would love to create their own game magazine, paying homage to their favorite console of all time. Little did they know the shear amount of work that would be involved in bringing such a dream to reality. However, they kept plugging away at […]
Let’s Play Together! Reflecting SEGA’s build-anything, arcade-rich 90s heritage, the Saturn boasts a plethora of hardware expansion options that enhance the end-user experience. Complimenting a healthy number of mainstream accessories is an even greater number of peripherals that are, to put it generously, niche. SEGA’s happiness to produce all manner of optional hardware bred a […]
Today, April 6, 2022, Meduza Team (specifically Paul Met, Pennywise & Aishsha) have released v1.0 of their English translation patch for Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen. “The translation is partially ported from the PS1 version of the game, as it has undergone edits and improvements. The Saturn version has a number of […]
In a community announcement today, March 28, 2022, hitomi2500 stated that WASCA (an aspiring “Swiss Army Knife” -type cart solution for Sega Saturn) would be migrating over to the much faster, modular (and perhaps more available) iCESugar-pro architecture, suggesting the possibility of a release for purchase perhaps some time later this year… The iCESugar-pro will […]
