Any SEGA Saturn fans out there..? This one’s for you! SHIRO! Media Group recently launched a new bi-weekly nostalgia-packed Saturn podcast series called Editor’s Corner. (in addition to the existing mainline SHIRO! podcast). Dave & Peter, editors of SHIRO! MAGAZINE, look back on their teenage memories of the console’s hardware, games and marketing. Join them […]
While the Saturn had a variety of great controllers and peripherals, a vast majority would agree that the 3D Analog Control Pad was perhaps one of the greatest. Dreamcast also touted several of its own clever and innovative add-ons, but most folks can’t deny the shear brilliance and significance of the VMU (Visual Memory Unit). […]
Tim M AKA gc8tech, the arcade tech who maintains 168 arcade cabinets at 1UP Arcade Brisbane, has started a YouTube channel. The content is excellent and covers arcade hardware topics like power supply selection, ideal motherboard revisions, etc. While there are a lot of great arcade gaming channels, few are by someone with as much […]
Shortly after last week’s announcement/release of the Raspberry Pi 4, questions were raised about the product’s backward compatibility with previous retro gaming related software and hardware released for the first 3 iterations of the RP. First, on the software side of things, Libretro, the team behind the multi-emulator frontend RetroArch, explained through a statement on […]
Frank has completed the first finished production model Sentinel Supergun, serial #001. Superguns are devices which allow you play arcade game PCBs on TVs, essentially “consolizing” the boards into stand-alone systems. The Sentinel is one of only three (along with HAS & Parsec) that are safe for modern equipment, with an RGB video encoder, proper […]
