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A thirty-year-old Sega Saturn still works. Capacitors leak and optical drives wear out, but fix those and the machine runs. Hardware turns out to be surprisingly stubborn.

Yabasanshiro is an emulator that makes heavy use of modern GPUs to run Sega Saturn games at high resolution and high speed.

YabaSanshiro is an emulator that actively leverages the GPU so that SEGA Saturn games run comfortably on modern hardware.

## YabaSanshiro as a Playground for New Technology

I’m a big fan of sim racing games like *EA Sports WRC*, *iRacing*, *Assetto Corsa*, and more. What draws me to them so much? One major reason is the **leaderboard**. Every time I cross the finish line, I’m ranked on a global leaderboard—and that experience is thrilling and motivating.

## Updated Game Selection Screen with Improved Usability

Finally I have finished Cloud backup and Action replay code on iOS version!!!

On November 22, 1994, the Sega Saturn was launched. Equipped with unprecedented multimedia capabilities, it quickly became a playground for game development experimentation, inspiring countless innovations and leading to the creation of many timeless masterpieces.

Finally, Yaba Sanshiro was released in the Apple App Store! You can play SEGA Saturn games on your iPhone or iPad or Mac. This version only includes basic features to facilitate approval. If there is demand, we will continue to expand it.

Devices equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, including models like the Galaxy S24 and Redmagic 9 Pro, are experiencing crashes when initiating games. It appears that the root cause of these issues may be linked to a bug within the SPIR-V compiler specific to these devices. I have reported this issue to Qualcomm via their developer forum, but have yet to receive a response.

I have heard complaints from many people about the on-screen D-PAD of YabaSanshiro. Indeed, it's terrible. There's no way this flat panel can beat a device designed to be physically easy for humans to operate. However, it's worth the effort to get as close as possible. I have considered why the on-screen D-PAD is terrible, based on the differences with the real Sega Saturn's D-Pad.

I'm developing and testing a new "Auto backup sync" feature.

I was impressed that the retroid pocket 3+ runs Yabasanshiro at full speed. But I also noticed some features like tessellation do not work, so I tried to implement them for this device. But these issues happened inside of the OpenGL ES driver and seemed hard to fix by me. So I try them on my Vulkan code. Then it's easily fixed. I found that I am in a new era. OpenGL ES is sunsetting. GPU maker will not support OpenGL ES drivers anymore. VDP(SEGA Saturn Video processer) emulation with Vulkan is mandatory to adapt to this era.

Handheld game devices are around the world! In 2022 there are so many of them were born. AyaNeo, Onex Player, Steam Deck, Ayn Odin, RetoroPocket 3+. These devices have good enough Soc to emulate SEGA Saturn games, and the build quality is high. My dream, 'SEGA Saturn anywhere,' comes true.

I added improvements suggested by user feedback.

I obtained [AYANEO NEXT](https://next.ayaneo.com/) and test YabaSanshiro and fix bugs. Now it's playable. You can get the Yabasanshiro handheld version here.

[Ayn Loki](https://www.ayntec.com/pages/loki), [Aya Neo](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ayaneo-world-s-first-7nm-handheld-gaming-device/x/26186747#/), [Win600](https://anbernic.com/products/new-anbernic-win600), [ONEXPLAYER](https://www.one-netbook.jp/landing/one-xplayer/).2022 is the year of handheld windows PC.It's exciting that play PC games anywhere.But YabaSanshiro for windows is built using the old QT library, and you need a mouse and keybord to use YabaSanshiro. It's not easy to play games on Windows version of Yabasanshiro.

SEGA Saturn has two CPUs. Each CPU has cache memory to enhance the throughput. YabaSanshiro does not emulate that until version 1.7.6, Because each CPU accesses the same memory space and it should be the same data, and emulating cache needs many CPU cycles for each memory access. But I noticed that some games are programmed on the assumption that the data referenced by each CPU is inconsistent and the difference in timing with and without hitting the cache.

[Ayn Odin](https://www.ayn.hk/Odin/) is a handheld android device for gamers. This young device has enough SOC to run Yaba Sanshiro. But I found that the default setting of Yaba Sanshiro runs not well. So I want to let you know how to optimize the setting for a better game experience. With this setting you can play Virtua Fighter 2 with 60fps constantly.

Nvidia Shield TV is upgraded to Android 11. Since Android 11 does not allow direct file access, you can not play games in the way you did. YabaSanshrio 2 Pro 1.7.1 will support Android TV 11. But since Nvidia Shield TV does not implement the "Storage access framework" property, you need additional operations.