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Community Tank, Catfish and a Last Look!

Nix McRetro // 28th July 2020 // Categories: Fish, Reconstructed, YouTube

Welcome back to the community tank! It’s the 10th June 2020, and we’ve got another update from the aquarium. Todd the Cod, Slinky, Plankers, Whiskers and the other friends had featured in plenty of recordings over the previous months. It’s always nice to catch up with everybody, particularly after all... Continue reading

Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 9)

Nix McRetro // 18th July 2020 // Categories: Livestream, Sega, YouTube

Wow! What a long episode! We lost Ayame, who turned out to be Ay-ame?!?! A double agent for Lord Satan!?!? And now they have our secret weapon, stolen straight from under our troupe - The Pandemonium Regalia! I still can’t believe that Ayame is a faithful servant of Lord Satan…... Continue reading

Sakura Taisen (1996, Saturn Live Stream, Episode 8)

Nix McRetro // 11th July 2020 // Categories: Livestream, Sega, YouTube

The Koubu broke! Without spirit armour what defence do we have? That’s right, we had a backup plan! Jinbu! Lord Satan certainly is testing our limits with these new battles. A sign of things to come? Will the next battle be even more powerful? Can our Jinbu spirit armour strike... Continue reading

Onions, Great with All Websites!

Nix McRetro // 4th July 2020 // Categories: 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 // Categories: 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. This time we’re installing one into a PAL Model 2 Saturn, which sounds simple enough until you actually... Continue reading