SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!

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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! episodes

February 17, 2018 ★ BONUS MINICAST: New Shiro! Members Questionnaire Part 1
Join us as we interrogate our NEW SHIRO! team members about their favorite Saturn games, memories, and most embarrassing moments. It's your chance to get to know the folks that'll be creating new content for the community to enjoy.
31 min
February 15, 2018 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 10 - SEGA Saturn Racing Games
Join us as we hit the track and talk about several notable racing games on the SEGA Saturn. In this cast we also have some of our new team members introduce themselves and talk about how they got into Saturn.
INTRO: Recent Host Activities
NEWS: Sega Touring Car NetLink & NetLink Email back online!
NEWS: New SHIRO! Member Introductions (Claire Sawyer, Chaz Picardy & Dave Hickman)
NEWS: Retro-Bit Controllers Follow-up (3D Control Pad?)
OBSCURE GAME: Choro Q Park
MAIN FEATURE: Saturn Racing
-Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Initial D, Sega Touring Car, Need for Speed, VR Virtua, F1
CLOSING & OUTRO: "Daytona USA - Crackin' DJ Version"
1 hr 20 min
February 02, 2018 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 9 - Panzer Dragoon Saga's 20th Anniversary
After an entire **MONTH** away, we are back on the mic, and we're discussing everything from what we've been doing, to Retro-Bit controllers and accessories, to the 20th Anniversary of Panzer Dragoon Saga and the release of the new Ressurection Arange album!
50 min
January 03, 2018 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 8 - 2017 Year in Review with The Saturn Junkyard
*Saturn Junkyard TitanCast & SEGA Saturn, Shiro! Podcast team up for a New Year's Spectacular!!!*
Join us (Simon, Patrick, Samuel, Dave, Nuno, Ke & Brian) as we discuss the Saturn's past, present and future in this Epic 2-Hour New Year's MegaCast! We talk treasured memories, SEGA's troubled history, hardware setups, repro scene, emulation and hopes for the future. Happy New Year from the TitanCast and SEGA Saturn, Shiro!
1 hr 57 min
December 20, 2017 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 7 - The NiGHTS... Before Christmas
Merry Christmas Everyone! In this episode, we cover one of the most beloved Christmas games of all time: Sonic Team's Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams... We also discuss a few other lesser known Christmas games on the Saturn and we read some awesome listener mail. Hang your stockings, light the fire and cozy up to this end-of-the-year Christmas cast! ;)
1 hr 26 min
November 27, 2017 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 6 - Polarizing Saturn Games we Love or Hate
POLARIZING SATURN GAMES THAT NOBODY CAN AGREE ON...
Some games are loved and treasured by some, while hated and maligned by others. One gamer's "junk" is often another gamer's "treasure", and this cast we will discuss some of the most polarizing games on the SEGA Saturn.
Intro & Activites
Saturn Headlines
Obscure Game: Rabbit
Main Topic: LOVE or HATE
Clockwork Knight 1 & 2
Burning Rangers
Mr. Bones
House of the Dead
Sonic R
Albert Odyssey
Fighters Megamix
Dragon Force
Radiant Silvergun
Three Dirty Dwarves
Astal
Sega Touring Car Championship
Closing Segment

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1 hr 30 min
November 11, 2017 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 5 - Getting Saturn Online with NetLink over VoIP
SEGA'S ONLINE HISTORY & NETLINK PLAY OVER VOIP
Official Saturn NetLink over VoIP Thread: https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8453

Official Video Setup Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNOhWgMCMY
SEGA RPG FAN (at Dreamcast-Talk): https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=58ItsStillThinking (at Dreamcast-Talk): https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5587 Xiden (at Dreamcast-Talk): https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7828

OPENING Obscure game of the cast: Gundam Side Stories
MAIN TOPIC:
Sega, ahead of their time...
Sega network based service started on the mega drive in 1990
Sega Channel
offered games for download
X-Band
modem was built in to later sega channel adapters
for the most part, matchmaking came about by reverse engineering the game code, then develop a hack to intercept 2 player activity.
Multi player Online MMO
Dragon's Dream
Phantasy Star Online
Technical Aspects
Hardware
Japanese Hardware
Sega Saturn Modem (XBand)
14.4kbps
Saturn media card requiring credits
required the XBand server for matchmaking
US Hardware
Netlink (Some XBand Technology)
28.8kbps
Direct dial only (no central server)Taisen Cable (DirectLink Cable)
Postby rush6432 » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:52 pm
i did a ton of research on this a while back and ive got a copy of the euro version of doom and a few others.
i even got the pinouts for the cable and made an adaptor to allow the serial cable to link a console to a computer serial port and had a program tunneling the serial connection over the internet for internet play seemed to work but i only tested it on a LAN and not actually the internet. worked fine. internet play might work but im not sure how much if any lag there will be.
http://www.saturnleague.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=654&sid=a5f80701ca4f5a4c8cdb134952e4a484&start=15
Software
Japanese
Sega Saturn Modem
Daytona USA Circuit Edition
Decathlete
Dennou Senki Virtual-On
Dennou Senki Virtual-On Media Card Pack
Habitat II
Pad Nifty
Pad Nifty 1.1 & Habitat II
Puyo Puyo Sun
Puzzle Bobble 3
Saturn Bomberman
Sega Rally Championship Plus
Sega Saturn Internet 2
Sega Saturn Internet Vol. 1
Sega Worldwide Soccer '98
Shadows of the Tusk
Special Disc with Sega Saturn Internet 2
Virtua Fighter Remix
Dragon's Dream (a demo that is said to be the first online console RPG)
Taisen Cable
Daytona USA Circuit Edition
Doom
Gungriffon 2
Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)
Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers
Hyper Reverthion
Steeldom
Daytona USA demo (U)
Doom (U) (U has it, but E version seems to not have system link. J may have it, code is listed (unlike U or E).)
Independence Day (U)(present but nonfunctional)
Hexen (U) (U has it, but E verion seems to not have system link) (buggy)
Virtual-On: Cyber Troopers - Netlink Edition (U)
Dennou Senki: Virtual-On for SegaNet (J)
Wipeout (JUE) (this listing is probably wrong, can someone confirm? Not listed in code and no reviews mention it.)
Wipeout XL/2097 (JE) (as above, this game probably does NOT have system link. Not listed in code, etc.)
Duke Nukem 3D (U) (U version is listed as having DirectLink support in its code and does have it; E version does not have it (neither code nor support))
Daytona USA: Circuit Edition (J)
Gun Griffon 2 (J)
Steeldom (J)
Shadows of the Tusk (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)
Saturn Bomberman (U) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)
Sega Rally Championship Plus (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)
Puyo Puyo Sun for SegaNet (J)
Hyper 3D Taisen Battle Gebockers (J)
Sega Touring Car Championship (JUE) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)
Densetsu no Ogre Battle (J) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)
Netlink Browser (PlanetWeb Internet Browser V. 1.135) (unconfirmed, listed as having it in code)
Decathalete for SegaNet (J)
Dragon's Dream
https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?136448-Saturn-system-link-question
Europe
Taisen Cable
Doom
Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)
US
Netlink Modem
Taisen Cable
Hexen (accessed through debug menu, very buggy)
Independence Day (Manual makes reference to the feature, but it appears to be removed from the menu. Possibly accessible via cheat code or hex hacking)

GUEST INTERVIEW: Sega RPG Fan & ItsStillThinking1999 from the Dreamcast-Talk forums talk NetLink over VoIP.
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1 hr 30 min
October 27, 2017 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 4 - Spooky SEGA Saturn Games for Halloween 2017
A CURATION OF "SCARY" SATURN GAMES FOR HALLOWEEN
Capcom Generation 2: The Chronicles of Arthur
Developer: Capcom / Publisher: Capcom
*Ghosts'n Goblins (Makaimura) *Ghouls'n Ghosts (Dai Makaimura) *Super Ghouls'n Ghosts (Cho Makaimura)
D
Developer: WARP / Publisher: Acclaim A horror themed interactive movie and adventure game directed by Kenji Eno. The first entry in the D series staring "digital actress" Laura, and controled through (FMV) sequences. Game must be completed within two hours without a save or pause function. Deep Fear Developer: SEGA AM7 & System Sacom (Mansion & Lunacy) / Publisher: SEGA A 1998 survival horror game and SEGA's answer to Capcom's Resident Evil. The last Saturn game released in Europe. Features include: real-time item use, aiming while moving, and oxygen management. Music was composed by Kenji Kawai (The Ring, Ghost in Shell, Ranma, Kamen Rider). Creatures and Characters designed by manga artist Yasushi Nirasawa (Kamen Rider). Dracula X Developer: Konami / Publisher: Konami Saturn version contains exclusive features, including new playable character (Maria Renard), new items, new enemies, two new areas (Cursed Prison and Underground Garden) and a secret outfit for Richter Belmont. A third equippable hand is available to Alucard for equipping usable items such as healing items. Badly ported because the PlayStation does not have a true 2D sprite mode. Developers did not take advantage of Saturn's sprite capabilities, forcing it to render using the same method as PlayStation. Resulted in stretched graphics (PS1 runs 256x224 resolution, while Saturn does 352x240), longer loading times, and altered transparency effects due to lack of alpha transparencies for 3D polygons. Enemy Zero Developer: WARP / Publisher: SEGA A 1996 survival horror adventure directed by Kenji Eno. The second game to star "digital actress" Laura, and voiced by Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson. House of the Dead Developer (Ported): Tantalus / Publisher: SEGA Port suffered from rushed development. Framerate drops to 20fps. Extra game modes were added which include character selection and a boss battle mode. Lunacy (Gekka Mugentan Torico) Developer: System Sacom / Publisher: SEGA An interactive movie with a simple interface and complex puzzles. The game is primarily a long series of interconnecting FMV sequences. Mr. Bones Developer: Zono Incorporated & Angel Studios (RE2 on N64) / Publisher: SEGA A multi-genre game created for SEGA by Ed Annunziata. Very few levels share the same gameplay or perspective. Genres include action/platform, music/rhythm, puzzle & memorization. The game's soundtrack was composed and performed by famed guitarist Ronnie Montrose. Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge Developer: Capcom / Publisher: Capcom Exclusive port to Saturn, while original Darkstalkers for PS had no confirmed release date, resulted in angry PS owners. The original Darkstalkers used 128MB for all characters, Vampire Hunter uses 256MB in total, resulting in an average of 500 extra patterns for all characters. Resident Evil Developer: Capcom / Publisher: Capcom Saturn version added an unlockable Battle minigame where the player must traverse through a series of rooms from the main game and eliminate all enemies within them with the weapons selected by the player. Minigame features two exclusive enemies not in the main game: a zombie version of Wesker and a gold-colored Tyrant. The player's performance is graded at the end of the minigame. The Japanese version is the most gore-laden of all the platforms. Saturn version also features exclusive enemy monsters (re-skinned Hunters called Ticks and a second Tyrant prior to game's final battle) and exclusive outfits for Jill and Chris. Developer: Capcom / Publisher: Capcom Released in Japan only in 1998 and required the 4MB RAM cart. Saturn version contains all 15 characters from original Vampire Savior, plus the 3 Night Warriors who were left out of original arcade release. 4MB RAM cart helps reproduce fluid animation of the arcade version. However, while Shadow is available in the Saturn version, Marionette is not.

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2 hr 15 min
October 06, 2017 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 3 - SEGA Saturn Backups, Mods & Rhea Phoebe ODE
On this week's episode, we go in depth with playing imports and backups. From swap tricks, to complete CD drive replacements. We also drop the release of Armed (Also known as Aftermath), an unreleased Sega Saturn game developed by Point of View, which was originally going to be published by Interplay. The URL for the game is provided in the podcast itself. DECRYPTION KEY: !3qtr16NLg_QaBI5ynoslPnPKe3G9tTRWnHhQKZG-sm4
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1 hr 28 min
September 24, 2017 ★ SHIRO! PODCAST: EP 2 - Neo Geo on SEGA Saturn
We discuss some of the great Neo Geo ports on the Saturn, and we have a technical discussion regarding RGB and the aging of compact disc media.

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1 hr 52 min