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Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 7)

Nix McRetro // 15th June 2020 // Gaming, Livestream, Sega

Split up, we covertly sneak into The Hive of Darkness lair in our Koubus. Destroying the Hexmechs is the only way forward… and those machines are pumping them out at record speeds! We’ll disable them first if we can… four against many… I hope the others are doing alright! In... Continue reading

Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 6)

Nix McRetro // 2nd June 2020 // Gaming, Livestream, Sega

The Hive of Darkness broke into the Imperial Theatre! Will we drive them back successfully? We’re splintered and at our weakest! Sakura is trying her best to get over her fear of thunder. We must help her and be strong so we can regroup with the others, fight the evil... Continue reading

Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 5)

Nix McRetro // 24th May 2020 // Gaming, Livestream, Sega

Sumire and Kanna get off to a bad start in the play! Good thing Ogami is here to try and patch things up between them… just need to find that anti-venom… I know it’s around this spooky mansion somewhere! Satan and Miroku are the two survivors of the Hive of... Continue reading

Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 4)

Nix McRetro // 19th May 2020 // Gaming, Livestream, Sega

The past three live streams had all suffered from audio stuttering and running at a higher pitch than they should have… whoops! On this setup the problem stopped after I forced the Inogeni USB capture device to 1080p instead of 2160p in macOS and installed the available firmware update. I’d... Continue reading

NUC8i7BEH Hackintosh Catalina Overview

Nix McRetro // 10th May 2020 // Apple, IBM PC, YouTube

A bit of fiddling and we finally get Bluetooth working on the NUC8i7BEH, running Apple’s latest and greatest at the time: macOS Catalina 10.15.4. Most other things were working well at this stage and I hadn’t run into any stability problems. Originally I started off with Windows 10, but found... Continue reading