Here is some surprising news as SAROO, a work-in-progress HD loader for the Sega Saturn, has received its first updates in around eight years. The project began in 2013 and aimed to support the loading of commercial video games onto the Sega Saturn with an SD Card, specifically aiming to emulate Saturn’s CDBlock rather than just hijacking and transferring data with alternative firmware.
The current status of the project translated from the latest readme.md is as follows:
- Dozens of games tested can run perfectly.
- 1MB/4MB accelerator card function can be used normally.
- SD card supports FAT32/ExFAT file system.
- Support image file in cue/bin format. Single bin or multi-bin.
- Some games will be stuck in loading/head animation screen.
- Some games will get stuck when playing.
This is still a work in progress and there is no update yet on when this will ever be made available for sale in the West via eBay. Still, new news is good news, and we will continue to keep an eye on this.