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Onions, Great with All Websites!

Nix McRetro // 4th July 2020 // Guides, Linux, Programming

See that little purple “.onion available” note? Thanks to the Tor Project’s Onion-Location feature, an HTTPS clearnet site can advertise its .onion counterpart to Tor Browser. The ordinary site is already being accessed through Tor; clicking that purple pill takes you to its onion counterpart. Pretty neat work from the... Continue reading

Installation of the Sega Saturn Phantom Universal Modchip

Nix McRetro // 29th June 2020 // Guides, Sega, YouTube

This continues the Phantom Universal adventures from earlier in the year. The chip was developed by Bad_Ad84 and Zer0-2k11 and lets CD-R backups boot, but it doesn’t remove the Saturn’s region lock. For this installation I used Kynar wire, with 26 to 30 AWG working well for my wiring, including... Continue reading

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