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michaelmills.bsky.social
Inspired by @wretchedmorgan.bsky.social ‘s posts, I wanted to share this demonstration (starting around 3:28) of how the Sega Saturn renders 3D graphics, which blew my mind youtu.be/VutzIK3DqZE?...
DF Retro: Tomb Raider Analysed on PS1/Saturn/DOS/Win95
YouTube video by Digital Foundry
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January 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
squidfrontiers.bsky.social
Toree Jolly Jam - 100%

A cute little Christmas NiGHTS inspired demo for Toree Saturn. Level was fun to replay for the unlockables. The unlockables themselves ranged from neat to really fun like the four Torees and Toree into Dreams minigame
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
icyneenz.bsky.social
The river and plains stages in astal for the sega saturn are valley of the wind inspired, good to know, also breezegale from klonoa is too
December 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
freebard42.bsky.social
Surely the d-pad is the deciding factor there? Any Nintendo or Nintendo-inspired pad? Great. Sega? Better for certain genres.* PS1 likewise. Xbox? Garbage, likely better off using the analogue stick.

*This is why I want a Retro-Bit Saturn Analog pad, has dual analog and imo the best d-pad
December 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
hierophantmica.bsky.social
fun character inspiration no one cares about but click thru to the alt text for fun
Character Inspiration grid for my OC Eris Caption: Pick 6 characters, either fictional or real life, that inspired (or continue to inspire) your OC! 6 images, left to right: 1. Ryoko (screenshot of her Tenshi Muyo! iteration; specifically her flirtiness & sass + how she moves, floats, & phases thru walls) 2. Eris (screenshot from Sinbad; a fellow Eris! again her sass + how she moves, floats, & just ~flows & melts~ everywhere) 3. Mistress 9 (screenshot from the og anime; Eris can DT parts of her body, like Mistress 9 reaching forward with a clawing hand here) 4. A xenomorph (Aliens rendering; Sparda's DT is a weird bug man that still manages to look demonic, so why can't Eris look like a demonic alien thing? She doesn't have as elongated as a head, but many of the features are there + the silhouette) 5. Maka Albarn (screenshot from the og Soul Eater anime; we love a scythe girl - the way she swings is so fluid) 6. Sailor Saturn (fanart; we love a purple harbinger of destruction, ruin & rebirth; purple reaper power, make up!)
December 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
jurei.bsky.social
The Saturn Sonic 3D Blast invincibility music sounds like it could’ve come directly off of Lovely Planet or Pikuniku. I wonder if that OST inspired Bo En in any way
December 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
artichow.bsky.social
#brushweek2025 This is Charlie (they/she) but with the cosmic brush!
A fullbody digital drawing of my oc Charlie seen from behind and slightly from the side, they're looking back at us smiling while walking and she has her arms slightly up in an exaggerated walking motion. They are a short and plus size black person, in this design version she has two space buns with braids acting as saturn rings around it. They have their usual round glasses, some glitter on their cheeks and shoulders. They're wearing a moon hairclip, a long tricolored scarf with star shaped ends, white gloves and astronaut inspired boots. Her dress is silver and blue colored, with transparent fabric and moon and star patterns over it as well. The background is white and there's a night sky colored shape under where they're walking.
December 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
jayextee.bsky.social
Inspired by a friend saying that Fighting Vipers was trash, I've been playing a fair amount of the Saturn version over the past few days.

It's great though. I have no idea why this didn't take off in a big way.
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
baribaritune.bsky.social
another Dreamcast girl to add to the collection
Dreamcasko, a cute and rowdy girl with a Dreamcast for a head. One of the characters from Yasahiro Tokimatsu's manga "Sega Games Are The Best in the World" published in Sega Saturn Magazine. She would later become an unofficial mascot for the console. Illustration by Junji Ito for Game Criticism magazine's March 1999 issue. Features a very spirally, orange-haired woman with the text "Hello, Dreamcast" next to her in Japanese. She's sticking her winding tongue out and licking a screaming person who is trapped in her spiral hair. A Dreamcast girl based on the controller and console by Mine Yoshizaki. She has animal traits and a swirly tail. Behind her are other characters based on the PlayStation, Saturn, and Nintendo 64. This illustration is from the second collected volume of Yoshizaki's manga "BIT FIGHTER." A girl with pink twintails and Dreamcast-inspired armor, illustrated by KEI for Sega Hard Girls. Her name is Dreamcast.
December 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
mk700.bsky.social
The clock runs backward, Hatson "

" Broken?"

"No. Geriarty's idea of time... slow, circular and #saturn-inspired"
#vss365
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
weirdddcat.bsky.social
hi im doing brush week .. Fly my ultra cosmic weirdo

my design idea behind this was having them blending in with other aliens while collecting miscellaneous things among the stars. pretty happy with how it came out! #brushweek2025 #weirdo
a swapped version of procyon.eyes' oc 'weirdo', painted with the cosmic brush designed by fourleafisland for its challenge "brush week". this image contains weirdo carrying a saturn shaped bag while performing a hockey stop with purple roller blades. their tail is a mixture of a light blue and a dark navy. they are wearing a full astronaut outfit that is a maroon purple. they also are wearing a yellow film roll scarf, inspired by their original belt design. a side by side image of the development that went into weirdos cosmic brush design. on the left is a black and white sketch of their typical design, and on the right is a 3-colored version of what their cosmic design would look like from a standing position.
December 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
emscotty.bsky.social
I saw a mention of Nights on my timeline so I felt a little inspired. Not the most creative as I traced the outline 😬 but the rest is my own depiction.

#pixelart #nights
I pixel art image of the Sega character Nights as depicted on the cover of the original Saturn game.
December 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
inkuoh.bsky.social
store.steampowered.com/app/1701800/...
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PS1/Sega Saturn inspired faster paced platformer.

You can follow dev at @deke.studio
Save 30% on Lunistice on Steam
Lunistice is a 3D Platformer created with simple & fun gameplay and a cute PS1/SEGA Saturn inspired artstyle in mind. Take the role of Hana the Tanuki and jump and fight through her dreams!
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December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
sickcombos.bsky.social
it's a great game, probably my favorite Virtua Fighter inspired title
Grace reaches for a throw, but Bahn has already retreated to charge up an approaching punch // Fighting Vipers for Sega Saturn, photography on CRT TV Raxel slams backward into the gate behind him while Grace stands ready to finish the fight a splash of light erupts around the rockstar as he receives a high kick to the head Grace steps forward on one roller skate to deliver a disrespectful back hand slap
December 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
planetdr.bsky.social
Tonight is another shepherd moon: Daphnis
DECEMBER 16 | DAPHNIS (SATURN) Even smaller than Pan, Daphnis dances in the Keeler Gap, a 42-kilometer-wide gap in Saturn's A ring. Though miniature (only 5 miles in diameter, less than the size of San Francisco), her gravitational pull affects ring particles hundreds of kilometers away, stirring waves in Saturn's rings like ripples on a frozen pond. Depending on how Daphnis is tilted during orbit, the moon creates both vertical and horizontal ring ripples, causing a wobbled or sculpted look. Daphnis is named after a shepherd from Greek mythology — appropriate, since she's a shepherd moon keeping the Keeler Gap clear. A NOTE FROM LINA For this moon, I was inspired by incredible NASA photos — this moon isn't round like most others, but small and lumpy, traveling within the rings of Saturn. I found it fascinating to see a moon that breaks the usual expectations of shape. Despite its irregular form, I used a classical round moon shape in the ornament to maintain visual continuity. I applied the same textured line technique I used on the box cover — my "spaghetti" style — to evoke the patterns of Saturn's rings. Within these flowing lines, 1 placed the small moon, echoing the NASA imagery of it nestled in the gap between the rings.
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
dizzly.bsky.social
Getting behind in my posting…yesterday and today’s Dandelion Chocolate Advent Calendar yummies.
Yesterday’s moon was Pan (Saturn) DECEMBER 15 | PAN (SATURN) Discovered in 1990, tiny Pan sails within Saturn's A ring, carving a narrow path in the 325-kilometer-wide Encke Gap in the ring. It acts as a shepherd moon, herding and clearing out particles as it orbits, while its gravity creates visible wave patterns in the nearby ring material — ripples you can see in Cassini photos. Before the Cassini spacecraft visited, Pan was merely a pixelated abstract shape in previous photos. Now, we know Pan is one of the oddest-shaped moons in our system — like a flying saucer or cosmic ravioli — due to a bulging equatorial ridge likely formed as Pan slowly accumulated particles from Saturns ring. Pan was named in 1991 by the International Astronomical Union (LAU), in keeping with the tradition of naming Saturn's moons after figures from Greco-Roman mythology. Since Pan was the Greek half-man, half-goat deity of shepherds, flocks, and nature, the moon's name aligns with its role as a "shepherd moon" in Saturns system. A NOTE FROM LINA For this piece, I drew from symbols associated with Pan - the mythical goat-man — but chose not to focus on his literal form. Instead, I worked with bis symbolic elements: the shepherd's walking stick, which has a beautiful, organic curl that connected naturally with the rest of the ornaments. The red tones are used purely for aesthetic purposes. They tie into the recurring red theme found in many of the other ornaments, adding visual unity while making the piece feel intriguing, rich, and beautiful. Red ornament box with a red and white lid with a gold swirl. Chicago Sunrise chocolate from Katherine Anne Confections. Would absolutely eat like 10 of these! Today’s moon is Daphnis (Saturn) DECEMBER 16 | DAPHNIS (SATURN) Even smaller than Pan, Daphnis dances in the Keeler Gap, a 42-kilometer-wide gap in Saturn's A ring. Though miniature (only 5 miles in diameter, less than the size of San Francisco), her gravitational pull affects ring particles hundreds of kilometers away, stirring waves in Saturn's rings like ripples on a frozen pond. Depending on how Daphnis is tilted during orbit, the moon creates both vertical and horizontal ring ripples, causing a wobbled or sculpted look. Daphnis is named after a shepherd from Greek mythology — appropriate, since she's a shepherd moon keeping the Kceler Gap clear. A NOTE FROM LINA For this moon, I was inspired by incredible NASA photos — this moon isn't round like most others, but small and lumpy, traveling within the rings of Saturn. I found it fascinating to see a moon that breaks the usual expectations of shape. Despite its irregular form, I used a classical round moon shape in the ornament to maintain visual continuity. I applied the same textured line technique I used on the box cover — my "spaghetti" style — to evoke the patterns of Satur's rings. Within these flowing lines, I placed the small moon, echoing the NASA imagery of it nestled in the gap between the rings. A black ornament box with a black and white lid with a small gold moon hiding in Saturn’s rings. A Snickerdoodle Bonbon by Kate Weiser Chocolate
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
timeextension.com
The Sega Saturn-Inspired Parking Garage Rally Circuit Is Getting An Expanded Version For PC & Consoles. (Repost)
The Sega Saturn-Inspired Parking Garage Rally Circuit Is Getting An Expanded Version For PC & Consoles
A browser version is also now via Wavedash
www.timeextension.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
lowpolyhighres.bsky.social
Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition (Saturn) (1996)

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If Fighters Megamix has taught us anything, it's that the Daytona cars, especially the red #19 Hornet, have some sort of sentience and autonomy (and are also bad drunks and always wanna fight) so we see the Hornet going fast, inspired by the giant rock carved mural on the cliff above of the Blue Blur, the dude with the 'tude and famous sensual lover, Sonic the Hedgehog. "If Sonic can go fast", thought Hornet, "then I have to go SUPER fast!" as it zooms into a left winding curve through a beautiful evergreen forest. The green #33 Magic car at its starting position, ready to go but it looks like the huge starting lights are falling down and about to crush the unsuspecting car! Oh my god, it's a mirage I'm tellin' y'all, it's sabotage! The smooth black #8 Phoenix driving through a wide downhill road with lots of cute colorful houses stacked down like a staircase on the sides of the road. We can see some more buildings in the distance and the road having lots of gaps and unrendered polygons. The Phoenix is driving so fast that even the world doesn't have enough time to materialize! The white-yellow-green #2 Max car has entered the pit-stop and is just taking a break and hanging out with some dudes, procrastinating while it's all bumped up and falling apart with big yellow letters saying "PIT WORK!" Honestly, the car has my name and describes me perfectly.
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
greggaming.bsky.social
Woah, Parking Garage Rally Circuit DX is doubling down on content with a European Tour! Eight new car parks, seriously cool. Browser launch on Wavedash now, but console players gotta wait till 2026. Still, more rally goodness is always welcome!
The Sega Saturn-Inspired Parking Garage Rally Circuit Is Getting An Expanded Version For PC & Consoles - Time Extension
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
timeextension.com
The Sega Saturn-Inspired Parking Garage Rally Circuit Is Getting An Expanded Version For PC & Consoles.
The Sega Saturn-Inspired Parking Garage Rally Circuit Is Getting An Expanded Version For PC & Consoles
A browser version is also now via Wavedash
www.timeextension.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
videogameesoterica.bsky.social
Looks like @walaber.com has a LOT more Parking Garage Rally Circuit for everyone as DX is out today and brings eight new tracks to the #Sega Saturn inspired arcade racing drift game! And damn its good youtu.be/3alwzqQ5eUw #gaming #gamingnews #gaming_news
December 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
gamesmaster5555.bsky.social
doing nearly as well as they did 20-30 years ago (in their heyday)

Super Famicom, Sega Saturn & PS1 were JRPG juggernauts, that was the golden era

Nowadays all we get are western developed 'inspired' by (most by Chrono Trigger) games that don't do anything new

Even S-E has resorted to remaking
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I think we're overdue Panzer Dragoon saga inspired indie RPGs. I feel pretty safe that any saturn or dreamcast game isn't get any ports since sega destroyed their source files after leaving the console industry in japan
December 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
lowpolyhighres.bsky.social
Wow, reached 500 followers, thank you all!
As a little treat, here's me posting my first SEGA Saturn high-res screenshots (finally figured it out) with more to come!

Fighters Megamix (Saturn) (1997)

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A beautiful calm green meadow with lovely hills and mountains under SEGA-Blue skies and two warriors, fighting to the death. The baddest of the bad mofos, the main bad guy of the Fighting Vipers who looks like a G.I. Joe Serpentor cosplayer - B.M. aka Big Mahler, being picked up like a little helpless child by the absolute cosmic horror that is Kumachan. Kumachan is a lifeless mascot float with zero points of articulation (it's just has a frozen arms-up pose and fights by shaking and rotating) depicting a cuddly 10-year old smiling bear wearing a cowboy hat (I ain't makin' shit up) with the freakiest googly eyes and smile (ripped straight out of Five Nights at Freddy's for you youngsters) and a sick painted text on its belly with swooshy shapes and flames and shit saying "ALL THE SINNERS SAINTS", apparently inspired by the Rolling Stones' lyrics from Sympathy for the Devil. What's a good time waster when you're hanging out with friends on a tropical beach? Fisting! We see Sanman, a burly dude that loves his modified scooter and has an obsession with the number 3, wearing all the driving safety gear you could possibly imagine, looking like he's going to a paintball match. He is sharing an intimate moment with Lion from Virtua Fighter 2, a handsome blonde French garson wearing Marty McFly's red puffer vest, currently being either held up by his bijoux de famille or with his fist deep in his pooper (it's hard to tell with these polygons and whatnot) while he's curled up from the pain (or pleasure, or both?) In any case they seem to be having a nice time so that's nice. Janet Marshall, the serious super cop from Virtua Cop 2 wearing her signature white uniform with like a thousand straps, kevlar vest and a freakin' gun, doing an elbow smash into an oversized anthropomorphic Mexican green bean who is wearing a fancy orange suit, being punched so hard he flew into the chain link fence, knocking his sombrero and revealing a cute little yellow bird under his hat. I swear it's almost like describing an accidental renaissance photo. The parking lot of the UFO Diner seems like the perfect battleground for the two mammoths of martial arts mayhem. We see the first official playable appearance of the scrapped prototype Virtua Fighter character Siba, a Middle Eastern gentleman wearing a white keffiyeh, white shirt and green pants. He wields a sharp saber, currently lodged deep into his opponent's testicles. His opponent being one Taro Yamada aka Rent-A-Hero, his first appearance in three dimensions. He's a blonde-haired doofus who ordered a power suit by mistake and decides to use its powers to earn money to pay it off by being the aforementioned hero for rent. Anyway, Taro has found himself in a bit of a bind because it seems his tight metal crotch guard wasn't good enough for Siba's saber, so he's just standing there, looking down at his balls, very confused and about to feel the sharp, excruciating pain of being stabbed in the dick. At least he'll have a funny story about that time he got stabbed in the balls with a sword in front of the UFO Diner to tell his grandchildren... oh wait nevermind.
December 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
planetdr.bsky.social
Ok we missed last night so we have two tonight.

First off the fan favorite iiiiiiiaaaaaaappppppeeeeetttttussss.
DECEMBER 11 | IAPETUS (SATURN) Saturn's moon lapetus is known for its dramatic two-tone surface. One side is bright white, reflecting over fifty percent of sunlight, while the other, called Cassini Regio, is dark as charcoal, reflecting only five percent. Scientists believe this contrast was caused by Phoebe's dust, which coated lapetus leading side and absorbed sunlight, warming the surface and triggering a runaway sublimation (a process whereby a solid directly becomes a gas): Ice vaporized, leaving behind darker material. Where the two sides meet, the mottled surface is said to resemble a celestial dish of cookies-and-cream ice cream. Adding to lapetus oddity is a giánt equatorial ridge made up of a chain of 6-mile-high mountains that run almost perfectly around its middle — an appearance likened to a walnut shell. This unique moon inspired a detail in Arthur C. Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey in which a mysterious alien monolith exists on lapetus. In the novel, a signal from our Moon points to lapetus, where the monolith acts as a gateway through space and time, launching astronaut David Bowman on a journey to become the Star-Child. A NOTE FROM LINA For lapetus, my inspiration came directly from the moon's distinctive surface. In one of NASA's images, I was struck by how one side appeared white while the other was covered in a dark, patch-like form — almost as if shadow was growing over light. To maintain a consistent aesthetic, I used my "spaghetti-like" technique and experimented with gold, white, and deep dark tones; including gold as a symbolic element.
December 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM