April 2020

A new member joins the Flower Division and The Hive of Darkness are meddling about with our team! A great leader cares about the individual as well as the team! Related posts Previous: Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 2) Next: Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 4)... Continue reading

We battle on and discover more about The Hive of Darkness! They will not take our newly built communications tower from us! It is an important part of our daily lives! Go Ogami! Related posts Previous: Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 1) Next: Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live... Continue reading

What feels like 500 years ago now, I had an Xbox 360 to play Burnout Revenge. I picked up a brand-new Xbox 360 from my local EB Games… Yeeeep! That’s how long ago it was, the darned thing was brand new! This particular Xbox 360 E was the 4GB model,... Continue reading

Today we take a look at Sakura Taisen for the Sega Saturn. We’re using an Open Source Scan Converter (OSSC) from an RGB source with a peppering of scanlines at 6%. Everyone needs more scanlines in their lives. A bit awkward on full-motion video, but what can you do! The... Continue reading

While sorting through some old documents, I came across my old Voodoo5 card and some interesting VOGONS threads. I figured they should be somewhere on here, even if I don’t have a retro PC anymore! The Voodoo5 5500 was quite an interesting beast. Released back in 2000, it featured two... Continue reading

The attached PDF is a rough translation of a Japanese TeraDrive message-board thread. There are some interesting TeraDrive tidbits scattered through it. The thread begins in 2001 and continued for years, so I would treat this as community-sourced historical material rather than verified TeraDrive documentation. The PDF is here: Terra... Continue reading

I wouldn’t have believed it if you’d told me a week ago, but I guess it isn’t only birds that chirp! This particular power supply can almost sing as well as Mary Poppins! I’ve got a few Nintendo 64 consoles here, including some Japanese machines and one that’s now set... Continue reading

While looking into the Sega TeraDrive Model 2, I came across a fascinating Japanese look inside IBM’s PS/55 Type 5510. It is one of those machines that looks familiar at first, until you start paying attention to the motherboard and cables. There is some wonderfully peculiar hardware in here! The... Continue reading

Oh trusty old Nintendo Wii, how I had forgotten about thee. Looking through my “To Be Sorted” bookmarks folder I found the old GroovyPost guide I must have followed when I softmodded a Wii running System Menu 4.3E using LetterBomb and the HackMii Installer. Boy oh boy, does that take... Continue reading

I’ve been looking at a few different ways to get software running on Sega consoles. There’s quite a bit of development software floating around out there, so I thought I’d collect some of the more interesting projects in one place. First up we have SGDK, the Sega Genesis Development Kit.... Continue reading

I finally got around to putting together my MiSTer FPGA. Below is a list of all the things I bought to get it into one piece. Sadly, the case I so desire is never in stock, so I’ve just gone with an open design for the time being. Eventually it... Continue reading