The weight balance of the light gun will be better, and it will be easier to play! It was my idea to create a space for batteries. The recommendation is to put it only in the grip. I always received the manuscript for the coverage article and I corrected it.ĭid you know that when disassembling the Virtua Gun, there is space for AA batteries at the barrel and grip? You can insert the batteries as a weight. I rewrote about half of the article manuscript. We developed two products that looked the same but had different boards at the same time. Therefore, I made a new board so that it would have the same performance using a completely different circuit. In order to increase the production volume, we had to secure electronic parts, but we couldn’t because they took too long to deliver. TOSAKI: There was only one problem with the development of the Virtua Gun… Virtua Cop was so good that SEGA was flooded with Virtua Gun orders. SHIRO!: Did you face any challenges getting the light gun to work on the Saturn? Your hardware withstands the test of time! I’ve been playing a lot of Virtua Cop lately. SHIRO!: I still use the Virtua Gun a lot to this day, and it works super well. It was a long time ago, so my memory is a bit ambiguous, but I’ll answer as best I can. For the SEGA Dreamcast, I was in charge of the console’s industrial design as well as the controller, the VMU and the interface design for peripheral devices. For the SEGA Saturn, I was in charge of the 3D Control Pad & the Virtua Gun (aka Stunner). I was mainly in charge of the game controllers & input devices. TOSAKI: At that time, I was a peripheral development manager at SEGA. Can we start by asking what it was it like working for SEGA? What projects did you work on?
SHIRO!: Welcome to the group, Tosaki-san! We greatly appreciate you joining us for this interview. Tosaki-san suggested this approach, as he specifically desired for this to be an open forum question & answer session, in which all community members could participate. SHIRO! has cut it together into a conversational format, for the sake of continuity and for your reading pleasure. NOTE: This interview was conducted in a non-linear fashion, consisting of several individual questions submitted out of order. It is with great pleasure and excitement that we share this interview with you now. Imagine our surprise then, when SHIRO! recently had the opportunity to interview the very man, Kenji Tosaki, responsible for creating these awesome devices (in addition to many others) in an open forum question & answer session, where several members of our community were able to participate! We were honored to host this absolute legend of gaming history and were surprised by several fascinating pieces of previously unknown information that Tosaki-san revealed. These innovations lead the way as industry firsts and would be copied and iterated upon by SEGA and others. Dreamcast also touted several of its own clever and innovative add-ons, but most folks can’t deny the shear brilliance and significance of the VMU (Visual Memory Unit). While the Saturn had a variety of great controllers and peripherals, a vast majority would agree that the 3D Analog Control Pad was perhaps one of the greatest.
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