Back in 1995 I had no chance owning Sega Saturn Most folks I knew, who owned gaming consoles, pretty much jumped from Mega Drive (Genesis) to Sony PlayStation 1 - there hasn't been many (if any) units around in Lithuania back then

Yet Sega Saturn is awesome console with CD tray (for game discs) and cartridge slot (mainly used to extend memory). Joystics still feels top: inheriting shape and layout from Mega Drive

Can you spot 10 differences in this photo?

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing its total to 274—almost twice as many as all other planets combined. These small, irregular moons provide insights into the early solar system's dynamics and the origin of Saturn's rings.

@goodnews

#Saturn #Astronomy #SpaceExploration #GoodNews
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/11/astronomers-discover-128-new-moons-orbiting-saturn

APOD from 2007-09-19

4,000 Kilometers Above #Saturn's Iapetus

Cassini's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus revealed a landscape of craters, hills, and mountains up to 10km high. A bright patch suggests exposed water ice. Images will help study Iapetus' shape and color; no further close flybys are planned.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070919.html

On #SaturnDay here’s “Dynamite Deka”, better known as “Die Hard Arcade”. This is a 1997 port of #Sega’s 1996 Titan Video Arcade 3D beat-em-up, developed by Sega AM1 & published in-house. Sega did not have the Die Hard License in Japan, hence the different name.
#Retrogaming #Saturn

APOD from 2021-07-13

#Saturn's Iapetus: Painted #Moon in 3D

Saturn's moon Iapetus displays stark contrasts with dark brown and bright white regions, possibly due to carbon-rich material. Cassini's 2007 flyby revealed a unique equatorial ridge and a massive impact crater. The thin dark coating may result from sublimating dirty ice, accreting meteor debris from other moons.

Video at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210713.html

Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes something a moon remains unclear https://theconversation.com/saturn-now-has-274-moons-but-exactly-what-makes-something-a-moon-remains-unclear-252033 #saturn #astronomy #moons #physics #science #STEM

Have you worked on a Sega Saturn homebrew game or translation patch in the last year or so? Then by all means, enter it into the SegaXtreme Homebrew Competition! It's a celebration of the Saturn's enduring community:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/03/14/segaxtreme-saturn-homebrew-competition-inches-closer-to-the-deadline/

The latest English translation patch from Team Meduza is now complete — Arcana Strikes, a Sega Saturn-exclusive card-battling RPG by Takara and Red Company! Find out all about the patch and where to get it in my story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/03/14/english-patch-for-arcana-strikes-is-out-now/

Das Wochenende steht kurz bevor und damit endlich auch wieder die Weekend-Deals von #MediaMarkt und #Saturn. Wir zeigen euch die Technik-Schnapper im Überblick. (Anzeige) https://winfuture.de/news,149575.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

There’s a translation patch in the works for the Saturn port of Capcom beat-em-up Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom! Find out how far along it is in my story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/03/14/english-patch-for-dd-tower-of-doom-nears-completion/

Have you ever wanted to stream a game from your PC's hard drive directly to your Saturn? If you have a Fenrir installed, you can do just that with the newly released beta firmware that enables WiFi! Get the details here:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/03/13/fenrir-game-streaming-via-wifi-smb-beta-fw/

When making a game, fast arithmetic is important to get the best performance possible, and now Saturn homebrew developers have a new high-performance mathematical library thanks to Roberto Duarte! Read all about it in SaturnDave's story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/03/13/new-saturn-development-library-saturnmath/

JoEngine, the most popular homebrew software development kit for the Sega Saturn, got an update over the weekend! Get the details on stable version 2025.1 in SaturnDave's story:

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/03/13/new-stable-release-of-joengine-saturn-software-development-tool/

Saturn: Astronomen finden 128 weitere Monde. Neuentdeckungen machen den Ringplaneten zum mit Abstand mondreichsten Planeten. #Saturn #Saturnmonde #Astronomie #Sonnensystem
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/saturn-astronomen-finden-128-weitere-monde/

The first weekly challenge for Hang On GP on Long Albatross Cliff Reef is well underway, and there are a couple days left to get your times in!

So what are you waiting for? Hop into the SHIRO! Discord and get racing: https://discord.gg/KVt9gS6p

And if you don't have a real Saturn, we have a new emulation category! That includes any Saturn emulator or the MiSTer Saturn core. Just one person, Random, has entered — give him some competition!