Solaris Japan Blog

Atelier Sai will be releasing another Gradius modelkit in June. This time it’s the green color version from Gradius 2 in a 1/100 scale which makes it 200mm long. Unfortunately the fighter won’t be assembled, so if you are not into model kits this one will not give you much enjoyment.

This week we got a pretty big batch of nice commercial posters from games which has been released recently: Street Fighter 4, Dodonpachi BL EXTRA, Last Remnant, Shooting Love; just to name a few. We’ll be adding them to our catalog as fast as possible, so make sure to check on new posters once in a while. Prices will range from 1200 to 3500 Yen.

Due to the demand for videogame soft- and hardware, we added a “Games” section to our webshop! For now we will be focusing on big titles as well as shooting and beat’em up games. New titles are added on a daily basis so please check for updates regularly.

Everyone who has hooked up his Super Famicom to his new shiny big HDTV to play a round of Super Mario World, surely realized it looked way worse than it used to. Usually that happens because we remember games better than they actually are, but with standard definition games on HDTVs it’s a different story.

Due to the low upscaling capability of current gen TVs, anything that is not HDef will be reduced to some muddy blurry mash of pixels. But there is help: By using a decent upscaler you can counteract the whole process and get a pretty decent picture. Home cinema upscalers usually cost between 600$-2000$ and therefore are a bit pricy for the casual retro gamer.

Fortunately a small Japanese company called Micomsoft manufactures small and affordable upscalers perfect for use with SD gamemachines. The latest unit is the XRGB3 which pretty much has everything a retrogamer can dream of! Since we got a lot of requests for XRGBs we added a section dedicated to the XRGB series to our webshop.
For information on the topic and a great overview of uscalers for videogame consoles please visit: http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/  

Solaris Japan Inc. wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Here we go, ladies and gentlemen! Solaris Japan is up and running!

Bear with us as you might find some minor bugs here and there. They’ll soon be a thing of the past, other than our enthusiasm to be at your service for many years to come!