Recently I received several messages of Fenrir Loader Kai not working with Fenrir Lite ODE.
And rather than replying individually the same thing again and again let's detail about the situation here.
[What's happening ?]
Fenrir Loader Kai doesn't works with Fenrir Lite ODE.
[Will you fix Fenrir Loader Kai ?]
Before fixing Fenrir Loader Kai, the root of the problem should be fixed on Fenrir side.
Fenrir is not my project. I don't know how it works internally. So I don't know what's buggy on Fenrir side hence don't know how to fix it.
[What should I do then ?]
Use Fenrir official loader and wait for Ced to fix support for Fenrir Loader Kai.
If you are considering the purchase of a Fenrir Lite in order to use Fenrir Loader Kai then it may be a wise idea to wait until its support to be fixed.
Read more Fenrir Loader Kai with Fenrir Lite (2025/10/12)
Last month, the results of
Saturn 29th Game Competition Contest were published ... I'm a bit late to share the good news here but on the other hand it's the perfect moment to do that
So, after more than a decade without participating into a coding contest, I'm happy to announce that
my entry ranked with
the highest score in the "Original Games" category !!!
It's a double surprise for me : first to get a so high score and second to see that the judges of the contest evaluated my masterpiece to its real value
Also, it's cool to see that my friends vbt and privateye received pretty high scores too ! You both made a brilliant performance and I sincerely hope it will be outperformed on next contest
Folks interested in my entry can find it
on SegaXtreme forums and may also be interested in "
VTT" a.k.a. "
VBT Touring Truck" made by vbt as the name suggest. Before playing, please beware that these games may disturb the ones who forgot the good old times when retro games were made with 5 different colors, mentally designed during three months, coded during two days, tested during one night and finished at 3 A.M. just before the deadline
The game description that I wrote before going to bed.
As indicated in the title, this is a poll to decide which display method should be used when displaying game titles in disc image selection menu.
Why such kind of poll ? Because
privateye (in charge of Pseudo Saturn Kai beta testing) and me (in charge of adding bugs in Pseudo Saturn Kai) have different opinions regarding this default display method.
And as Pseudo Saturn Kai is here to please their users, I thought it would be cool to directly ask about that.
As illustrated below, display method can be either "centered" or "left-justified".
Centered display example
Left-justified display example
Both methods have their own pro and cons : "left-justified" is same as other disc image selection menus (and consequently users are more likely to be familiar with it) and "centered" may be felt as a more natural way to display menu items.
Ideally, it would be better to ask this on patreon because the voice of people who financially contributed to this project takes priority.
However, that's unfair for the supporters who left patreon and the ones who directly sent me a donation.
Also, I don't want to force someone to join my patreon page just to answer this poll.
So, feel free to share your opinion in the comments of this blog article ! It's free and doesn't even require any registration; there's a mail address input field but it's optional and just in case you want me to contact you back.
Rules :
- Poll is open until 2023 August 31st
- Don't hesitate to indicate the reason why you voted (or not) for this or that display method
- Don't flood the comments
- If the result of this poll doesn't pleases me, I will set default display method according to my personal preferences 
Extra bonus, limited to the first 5 person who will request that : if you want to be listed in "Display Method Decision Committee" section of Pseudo Saturn Kai credits page, please inform me about the nickname (no real name please) to display there !
Read more Default display method in disc image selection menu (2023/08/06)
Well, I'm quite late, but as we are still in January I wish everyone still reading this blog an happy new year for 2023 !!!
There wasn't any release of Pseudo Saturn Kai in 2022 but this doesn't means the project stalled.
Last year was dedicated to Satiator support, improvements of cheat codes list as well as many other small improvements here and there. Please stay tuned until next release of Pseudo Saturn Kai
Wishing only an happy new year is a bit cheap as a blog post, so I would like to introduce the marvelous christmas present I received last month : a pair of slippers from my favorite movie !!
Deluxe Slippers
Speed 【＊ 】
Warmness 【＊＊＊＊ 】
Laught 【＊＊＊＊＊】
For comparison, here are the slippers I was using so far. They are completely weary but quite convenient during summer.
Basic Slippers
Speed 【＊＊＊＊ 】
Warmness 【＊ 】
Laught 【＊＊ 】
I like these Deluxe Slippers so much that every morning is a pleasure to put them at the right place in the entrance to see Victor Pivert and Mohamed Larbi Slimane to welcome me back when I return back home on late night 
もう既に1月末になってしまいましたが、欧米では「年始挨拶は１月中で大丈夫」ということで、明けましておめでとうございます！
昨年はPseudo Saturn Kaiのリリースはなかったが、リリースを怠けた分開発に専念できたので今年こそ新しいPseudo Saturn Kaiが出来上がると思います。お楽しみにしてください！
Read more Happy New Year (2023/01/29)
After a long wait there is finally an update of Pseudo Saturn Kai !
... and, there's not a lot of new things from previous version : only the minimum stuff to work correctly with latest (20210207) firmware for Fenrir ODE .
But wait, there's more ! As the weird title of this article suggests, this release is a bit special because it was made directly from previous release (v6.408) of Pseudo Saturn Kai and this is why both release numbers are quite close : there are other changes pending but not available in v6.411a and instead available in a "parallel future".
So you may ask why everything new is not available in v6.411a, and the answer is simple : all pending changes together don't work ! Additionally to small changes and improvements, this was an attempt to get write access working on Fenrir SD card, but as the previous times it didn't worked and in fact was terrible enough to break other base features such as SD card refresh 
So rather than trying to fix everything in the same time, I simply focused on what's most important : fixing compatibility with Fenrir firmware 20210207, and the strategy paid because if I continued in trying to fix everything together, Pseudo Saturn Kai would certainly be still stuck at the same "nothing works" dead spot !
The plans for near future is to return back to main codebase indicated as "v6.419" in the picture above, merge back the fixes around firmware 20210207 from v6.411a and then terminate the remaining pending changes ! Now that base features are finally working correctly I hope that the remaining won't take a lot of time until being ready to release.
After finishing base and extra features, I shall finally be ready to attack the "Fenrir save data export & import" final boss. In order to (finally) go on next development goal, I really would like to terminate that this time, so please wish me good luck
Last but not least, I would like to express warm thanks to
privateye, who helped a lot in the preparations of this release !!!
TL/DR: a new version of Pseudo Saturn Kai is available, but as it only contains tweaks to work with Fenrir, please wait for next release in the case you're not using this ODE
Read more Parallel Past (2021/03/29)
