Eli Lipsitz has announced a new open source project Game Bub, a handheld FPGA based GameBoy, GameBoy Color, and GameBoy Advance emulator with a dock, that can play original cartridges and ROM files from a microsd card. The FPGA source code is licensed under GPLv3 (GPL-3.0-only), while the STL and PCB files are licensed under […]
H0ffman has knocked it out of the park once again with another Sega System 16 to NEO•GEO conversion, this time of Golden Axe. Just like their previous work with Shinobi, H0ffman has made this release compatible with every iteration of NEO•GEO hardware out there: MVS, AES, NGCD, and a every NEO•GEO flash cart on the […]
The team behind VUEngine Studio – A software engine for writing Virtual Boy games – just released version 0.6.0. This engine has a new sound player and incorporates some tricks that have allowed for some pretty amazing homebrew games on the platform. They also updated the website and wrote a detailed tutorial. There’s tons more info […]
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I’m not much of a YouTuber, but I decided to whip together a video on the FM Towns Marty. The typical videos one finds when trying to research this often misunderstood machine are of the usual “What Went Wrong?” and “Why Did it Fail?” variety. As a result, I wanted to contribute something a bit […]
Here’s an interview with developer Reinhard, aka C0pperdragon. He’s the inventor of Lumacode, a way to get excellent quality video from 8-bit and earlier consoles / computers. These mods are generally easier than most other video mods and almost always allow for #nocutmods. I think Lumacode is going to have an exciting future for consoles […]
Tito from Macho Nacho Productions recently released a video about restoring a rare HiSaturn. Tito showed some cleaning tips and also showed an improved way to perform the FRAM mod via a flex cable from Zaxour. He also compared three Optical Drive Emulators: A new version of the Saroo from JT Studios / Retro Game […]
Ryan from Archades Games recently reviewed the new “D6” controller from Retro Fighters – A $50 USB + wireless controller that’s compatible with the Sega Dreamcast (via included adapter), as well as the Switch, PC, MiSTer and most other platforms that use an included USB adapter. Overall, he seemed to like it, with the only […]
I just did a livestream testing the ability to load games from the MemCard Pro2 on the PlayStation 2 and was really impressed overall. I think the most important thing to keep in mind, is this is a completely free feature that’s now added to a product that was never expected to do something like this. […]
Zophar recently posted the second video in his “Retro Rewind” series, this time focusing on some of the origins of speedrunning. It was an incredible look at the creative workarounds emulation-focused gamers found to “record” their speedruns using the Nesticle emulator. There was also talk of a potential tool-assisted speedrun using those hacked Nesticle files. […]
