It's now possible to stream your Sega Saturn games from your PC to your console via WiFi using the Fenrir Optical Drive Emulator (ODE).
This new update—which was released early this month by Fenrir creator Ced and spotted by Sega Saturn Shiro—allows you to stream games from your computer's hard drive directly to the Fenrir. This is something that's unique to this particular ODE.
This capability has actually been in the works for a few years now, with Ced showing it in action as far back as 2021.
The developer has spent the past few years perfecting the system and removing bugs and issues. Ced confirms that games such as Daytona USA and Burning Rangers have been tested and have even been left streaming for as long as five hours without issue.
Have you tried this out with your Fenrir-modded Saturn? Let us know with a comment.
[source bsky.app]
Comments 6
Kind of a neat party trick? But I honestly don't see the point. If you have a Saturn modded with a Fenrir, you already have all your games loaded onto the SD card and it's not like it's a huge hassle to add more.
Am I missing something here?
@Razieluigi I'm with you, whilst it seems like a nice feature, I can't think of any reason why I'd do this instead of simply having all the games I want already on an SD card
This is NOT a daily use firmware yet, it's a tester. I've been trying to help Ced figure out some bugs because he's the only one who's so far been able to get the WiFi connected. We're freaking out that everyone is gonna come in the Discord and start yeling that it doesn't work right.
For now, it looks like it will only work if it's a 2.4ghz WiFi signal, with an SSID that is standard alphanumeric characters with no spaces or underscores. Not sure if that's a limitation of the software/ hardware, or if it's something that can be fixed in the future.
@ruiner9 the onboard ESP32 is only capable of 2.4GHz under the C5. My Fenrir is definitely not a C5. The space/underscore issue is also a very well known issue with the ESP32 that Espressif has not indicated desire to fix. So on both points, these are both hardware/firmware issues you won't be able to bypass.
@Razieluigi as a homebrew dev, it's quite honestly the dream of mine. I've been using the Satiator over micro-USB for now, but I've been watching the Fenrir Wi-Fi update closely. Having to swap SD cards constantly to debug issues on real hardware is tiresome, and being able to just replace the file over the network would be ideal.
Of all the different options like TeraOnion, SAROO, Satiator, so glad I ended up going with a Fenrir ODE for my JPN saturn with a bad disc. This sounds like a sick development I wasn't even anticipating, at all.
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