SEGA console designer, engineer and former company president Hideki Sato has sadly passed away at the age of 75.
Sato was a SEGA veteran, joining the company in 1971 and working on the development of early SEGA arcade titles Monaco GP, Star Jacker and Turbo. He is most famous for being the designer and engineer on most of SEGA’s consoles, including the SG-1000, SEGA Mark III, Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast. Sato would also become SEGA company president in 2001 following Isao Okawa’s death. He would step down as president in 2003 and leave SEGA altogether in 2008.
SEGADriven would like to extend our condolences to Hideki Sato’s friends, family and colleagues.
Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream is a platform game from 2000 that was developed by Chime and has been locked into Japan exclusivity for its entire existence. Thankfully in 2019 the game received an English fan translation courtesy of Cargodin who opened up the game to a whole new English-speaking audience.
SEGA and Limited Run Games are teaming up again for a range of Dreamcast merchandise to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the North American launch of the Dreamcast.
The headline item appears to be a line of trading cards. They are also selling sleevs, a binder, and a storage box for the trading cards as well.
While originally released in arcades first, Dreamcast favourites Power Stone 1&2, Capcom vs SNK 1&2 and Rival Schools sequel Project Justice are coming to PS4, PC and Nintendo Switch in 2025. These titles will form Capcom Fighting Collection 2 alongside Capcom Fighting Jam, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper and Plasma Sword. Check out the announcement trailer below:
Capcom Fighting Collection 2 will launch in 2025 for PS4, PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch.
Duranik’s impressive 2013 Dreamcast shoot-em-up Sturmwind is getting a new pressing through independent publisher VGNYsoft. This new pressing comes in 2 editions – a standard jewel case version with a 24 page booklet, or a limited edition that includes everything in the standard edition plus a limited edition sleeve and a custom Sturmwind-branded VMU shell. This version is limited to 500 copies.
While pre-orders haven’t opened just yet, the listings are available on the VGNYsoft online store now. See below for direct links and pricing:
VGNYsoft are based in North America so expected a hefty shipping fee if you live outside the US. You can also check out a new trailer of the game in action via the embed below:
A new selection of books and graphic novels have been added to the website’s merchandise section. See below for the full list of additions and direct links to each:
We have now added another selection of SEGA game soundtracks contained within the contents of a few limited edition SEGA games. Along with these additions, we have also re-scanned and updated a few existing entries with more images of the soundtrack’s contents in a much higher resolution. Click the links below to be taken directly to each soundtrack entry, or head on over to the SEGA Music Index and browse everything we have to offer:
The Dreamcast version of Rent-A-Hero No. 1 has finally received a full English translation patch thanks to the wonderful work of VincentNL and their team. This action RPG is a remake of the 1991 Mega Drive game Rent-A-Hero and features a humorous send-up of SEGA themselves, with the game putting you in control of a “hero for hire” who must perform various heroic tasks and odd jobs around the city.
A partially translated version of the unreleased Western Xbox version was leaked in 2008 and has been the only way to play any version of the game in English until now.
A new homebrew Dreamcast game is on the way in the form of procedural dungeon crawler HarleQuest. Currently in development at Kilgariff Technologies, this new Dreamcast game is similar in scope to action RPGs like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance and Diablo.
A Kickstater is now open to help fund the game’s development and eventual release on Dreamcast and PC. An estimated delivery of October 2024 is currently listed on the majority of reward tiers that contain physical items. The final game is being published by Wave Game Studios who have also published many indie Dreamcast games like Shadow Gangs, Alice Dreams Tournament and Intrepid Izzy. You can watch a trailer for the game below:
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