Thanks to the SHIRO! DISCORD community’s own DoubleDime, our resident NetLink “busy-bee” (seriously.., dude’s almost always available for a match-up if you want to have a go…), we now have online tournaments that you can participate in (provided you have the necessary setup).
The first game to kick things off looks to be Virtua Fighter Remix, and if that sounds exciting to you, be sure to join up and submit your name for the official bracket!
It looks like online match-ups will be asynchronous, taking place over a one-week period, with results being reported in and added to the tournament bracket. This way, folks can participate at different times, regardless of busy schedules.
DoubleDime has requested that participants record match-up footage if at all possible, both for spectators to enjoy and for verification purposes.
Here are a couple recent examples of NetLink match-ups between DoubleDime and Dan (aka RetroSpectors)…
A massive Saturn fan since Christmas ’96, Dave is enthusiastic about growing the community and spreading Saturn love and knowledge to fans old and new. Co-founding the SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! podcast back in 2017 and creating the SHIRO! SHOW in 2020, he seeks to create interesting and engaging Saturn-related content for the community. Dave’s interests circle around game preservation, and he is a huge fan of game magazines and developer interviews.
Thanks Dave! If anyone is interested in joining, go ahead and head over to the “online tournaments” chat on the Sega Saturn Shiro discord. Here’s a video of my first round (fyi I’m in Ohio and Mrmxy is playing from Chile so it’d a bit slower than usual):
https://youtu.be/bWmaTigGUqk