Recomp / RE tooling / Sega Saturn

SaturnRecomp

Experimental clean-room Sega Saturn runtime and static-recompilation research kit with a disc/config CLI, an SH-2 execution core and an SDL2 runner that boots user-supplied games with a user-supplied BIOS.

Tool Not stated wip
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Facts

Original
Sega Saturn games (SH-2)
Platform
Sega Saturn
Method
Tool
Provenance
Not stated what this means
Status
wip
Licence
none
Team
sonsegajp
Started
2026-08
Runs on
Windows
Needs the original
Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Sega Saturn games (SH-2) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by sonsegajp. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

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