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In 2016 May 31st, the first public version of Pseudo Saturn Kai (v6.036) was released. That was exactly 10 years ago. Happy birthday Pseudo Saturn Kai 

Pseudo Saturn  project itself was released around two years before that date and is the work of CyberWarriorX and jhl/Professor Abrasive.
`Kai' represents all the improvements added to the project. Notable improvements are virtual memory cartridge feature for Gamer's Cartridge, cheat codes, and (according to my personal tastes) fancy looking menus.

Pseudo Saturn Kai is still under development and recent improvements focus on cheat codes list and support of Satiator ODE. All of that could be possible thank to the extensive help and beta testing from privateye. Thank you very much 

I'm glad to announce (with 6+ months delay ...) that Gamer's Cartridge are available for sale !

According to an informal survey on my relatives, Gamer's Cartridge is the best cartridge for Saturn.

It features in-game access of backup memory cartridge on SD card as well as (still according to an informal survey on my relatives) the world's best save data manager utility for Saturn, which allows basic operation of the saves on each backup memory devices as well as import or export of saves on SD card.
And on the top of that, both hardware and software are hand-made with love from your humble servant 

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海外ユーザー様向けのGamer's Cartridge注文ページを一時的に停止していましたが、再開を…半年遅れてご報告しています^^;

国内ユーザー様はメルカリにて出品していますのでご興味ありましたらぜひご確認ください♪

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

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.

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.

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.

　　ユーザーゲームはSDカードのSAVES → ＜年月日＞ → FDD1_＜ID＞ フォルダーからPC等へコピーお願いします。