A new firmware update for the SAROO cartridge attempts to fix a bug that’s plagued the low-cost Saturn optical drive emulator for years. The SAROO’s creator, TPUnix, uploaded firmware version 0.9 to his Github Thursday. Users should replace the mcuapp.bin and ssfirm.bin files on their SD card with the ones included in the download, and put […]
A new test shows the SAROO cartridge, a low-cost Saturn optical drive emulator, loads data inconsistently, possibly revealing the source of audio bugs, crashes and other glitches that users have reported for years. The test, which can be downloaded here, simulates a basic file-loading procedure from a storage medium and checks whether it was successful. […]
Two Sega Saturn optical drive emulators got firmware updates over the weekend: the Fenrir and the SAROO. The Fenrir firmware, available on the official website, is specifically for the Lite model. It fixes bugs that prevented Fenrir Loader Kai, a version of PseudoSaturn Kai specific to the ODE, from loading games. It also fixed a […]
New firmware was released last Sunday for the Fenrir Lite optical drive emulator for Sega Saturn a month after the device’s debut to address problems that didn’t exist for earlier models. Firmware 1.7.0 can be downloaded here from the official Fenrir website. It’s the first update for the Lite, the latest model of the Fenrir […]
The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore yesterday. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being sold for €50 (about US$58). The webstore says the Fenrir Lite is on backorder and orders will ship starting Aug. 1. That’s because Ced, the […]
Ian Scott, the developer of the PicoGUS, has added another new feature to the device. That is the ability to emulate a Panasonic CDROM drive, therefore acting as an ODE. With PicoGUS you can now plug in a USB drive with CDROM images onto the USB port of the PicoGUS. Supported image formats are ISO […]
USBODE is an WIP open source project that turns an Raspberry Pi Zero W into an optical disk emulator. When connecting the raspberry Pi to a computer, it will appear as a CD-ROM drive. Then you can mount CDROM images stored on an SD Card to mount on the computer. It can work with a […]
Back on April 30, TZMWX announced the open source availability of his WUXI Drive Switcher project to GitHub for free public use. WUXI is an optical drive channel switcher for Sega Saturn that can switch freely between the CD drive and optical drive emulators (ODE), such as Rhea, Phoebe, and various versions of Fenrir have […]
The developer of Sega Saturn optical drive emulator Satiator released two new firmwares recently to fix regressive issues that appeared in an update last fall. Firmware 162, released April 26, fixes crackling Redbook audio heard in some games, while firmware 163, released May 3, addresses instances when the ODE fails to display its menu when […]
Thanks to developers IQ_132, H0ffman, Blastar, NeoHomebrew and Justingibbins, Neo Geo CD owners are enjoying a recent plethora of releases not seen since SNK themselves supported it in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. In addition to ported and original titles like P.O.W, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Karnov, and Block Panic DX, Neo Geo CD owners […]
