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[ Jul 1 2006 ]

The Samsung Saturn Revisited

You may remember an older writeup I did on the elusive, nearly mythical Samsung Saturn. I recently received a pair of additional units, and after having had a look at them there are definitely new things to learn. The two biggest things of interest are:1. Not all of them have the Japanese-language option disabled from […]





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[ Mar 28 2006 ]

Playing Games: Dreamcast (2)

In the second of a silly little series, I’m playing every game in my Dreamcast library, offering impressions from a fresh perspective, as many of these have lain unplayed for a long time. Fun or a ridiculous exercise in self-fappery, I leave up to the reader to decide. Read more? (





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[ Jan 30 2006 ]

The Samsung Saturn Revisited

You may remember an older writeup I did on the elusive, nearly mythical Samsung Saturn. I recently received a pair of additional units, and after having had a look at them there are definitely new things to learn. The two biggest things of interest are: 1. Not all of them have the Japanese-language option disabled […]





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[ Jan 27 2006 ]

Playing Games: Dreamcast

As part of a new series, I’m going to play a massive series of short games and write about it. Fun or a ridiculous exercise in self-fappery, I leave up to the reader to decide. (





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[ Jul 23 2004 ]

Sega Saturn Switchless Mod: Done!

Someone recently asked me to modify their US Sega Saturn with one of my switchless mods and last night I did it. Since my camera’s in the shop, I had to use my celphone to take pics. It did a fairly decent job. Here’s the pics of the job: Closeup view of jumpers Jumpers with […]





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[ May 19 2004 ]

Making a Saturn USB pad…

I’ve whipped up a more detailed mod than normal over on GameSX.com, showing in detail how I made a Saturn pad into a USB pad. Have a look-see!





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[ Apr 7 2004 ]

Rarest of the Rare?

There’s a lot of rare things in the Saturn world. The Samsung Saturn and the HiSaturn Navi spring to mind, but there’s nothing so rare as this: Sega SGX HSG-0007





Hardware
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[ Jan 31 2004 ]

IS Electronics Saturn Address Checker

I picked up a huge and rare Saturn Address Checker made by IS Electronics. No, this isn’t a repeat, this one’s a LOT different. About 8kg different in fact.





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[ Jan 3 2004 ]

EDY Cash Card for Arcade Use

Something I noticed at the AOU show last week but only recently put together with actual facts was the EDY contactless cash-card from Bitwallet. Launched in Japan in 2002 it’s a prepaid cashcard that users can fuel up at over 1,400 AM/PM stores in Japan, among other places. Based on technology from Sony the EDY […]





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[ Nov 6 2003 ]

Sega’s Megumi!

It’s not quite games-related enough to be shunted into the Games Division, so here it is: Japan’s Megumi, spokesboobs for Sega and countless other companies, and she’s famous simply for being famous. Check her out. Videos and pics! Woo!





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