Jaime C

Have you ever wanted to read SHIRO! news on your Sega Saturn? Now you can, since a member of the SHIRO! community has built a mirror that converts our website into a form simple enough for the console's NetLink browser to display.

ReyeMe has worked all this week on a proxy hosted at his own server that converts the modern SHIRO! website into an HTML 3.0-compliant one. It can be found at http://shiro.reye.me.

"This is not a copy of the website, all the content is actually fetched from (SHIRO!) and converted on the fly," ReyeMe said on SHIRO!'s Discord server.

The conversion is necessary because modern Internet sites are far too advanced for the NetLink browsers that were made to run on the Saturn in 1996 and 1997.

"There are no scripts, no styles, and div block is just a block, you can't even set its width or color," ReyeMe said, "so you just have to do with the few tags you have."

The NetLink browser can't even go to websites that use the newer, more secure HTTPS protocol now used widely across the Internet instead of the basic HTTP.

Not only that, but SHIRO!'s images are too large to fit more than one or two into the Saturn's memory — not to mention how long they'd take to download with the modem's 28,800 bits per second speed.

Thankfully, ReyeMe came up with a solution to that, too — his proxy converts the original images into much smaller ones and caches them to keep things as fast as possible.

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