The Unlikely Story of Yabadabadoo, and Bringing Sega Saturn Games to the Miyoo Mini

Yabadabadoo is an experimental Sega Saturn emulator developed by WillHasStyles, built upon Yabause and extensively modified and optimized to run on the Miyoo Mini family of handhelds. The Miyoo Mini+ is a lovely little machine, with an almost toy-like charm that makes revisiting older games a pleasure. Sega Saturn emulation, however, is not something I'd ordinarily associate with it. Yet here we are, with games like Sakura Wars, Guardian Heroes and even Sega Rally Championship running on hardware that would seem entirely unsuited to the task.The nice part of this story is that none of it began with some grand ambition to revolutionize emulation. It began because Will wanted to carry on playing a game, and the handheld he'd originally been using had broken.A little more out of what you've already gotSpeaking with Will about Yabadabadoo, I wanted to understand what makes someone spend months attempting something like this. His answer took us back well before the Miyoo Mini+, to his…