Vitor Vilela has officially released the latest edition of the Super Mario World widescreen patches, supporting 16:9/16:10/2:1/18:9/18.5:9 aspect ratios. We first covered the beta a few months ago and it’s shaped up to be a pretty flawless experience, that’s perfect for people using software emulation. Another cool bonus is an option for “pixel stretching”, which […]
Mike Chi has announced that the second batch of RetroTINK 5x’s will go on sale this Saturday, July 24th at noon NYC-time (4pm GMT) for everyone except UK; UK folks will have a special checkout link which will be live one hour later, at 6pm UK local time. Limit 1 per person. EDIT: Sold out. There will be […]
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Mike Chi has just released a new firmware update for the RetroTINK 5x, that includes “LCD style” scanlines, tweaked automatic phase detection…and something previously thought to be impossible: Certain modes with 240p processing, that matches the 4:4:4 colorspace output that the OSSC provides! That’s right, in some scenarios, the output will now equal the OSSC’s! […]
Retro Game Restore has just opened pre-orders on smoke clear shells for the model 1 Genesis / Mega Drive. The first 200 units sold will be at a 15% discount, to help “kickstart” the sales process and crowdfund what it takes to get started. I purchased one and the total price came to about $120 […]
Arcooda recently tweeted about launching new arcade monitors earlier this week. While the information known is scarce, it states to be a brand new 20″ 4:3 LCD Monitor capable of 15KHz / 31KHz. Mentioned in the product placement holder; the monitor has two input sources (VGA and HDMI). Not only does it state support for […]
Here’s an interview with the creator of the 129x and 68x “homebrew” input cards for Sony BVM/PVM monitors. Anyone who’s into retro CRT monitors has probably heard Martin’s name quite a few times over the past few years and it was an absolute pleasure to interview him. As usual, it’s a very laid back conversation […]
Fans of the NES and retro-like platformer/puzzle games have new call to rejoice! Well, at least those fans that prefer their games to be punishingly difficult. New from Erik Rosenlund, animator (his skills as such on prominent display in his release trailer above) turned 8-bit video game developer, comes Slow Mole, a brand-new game for […]
The elusive BKM-68x, is an RGB & Component Video input card for A-Series Sony BVM monitors. They’re impossible to find and usually sell for between $2000 – $3000…but not anymore! Developer Martin Hejnfelt has successfully reverse-engineered the 68x and it performs EVEN BETTER than the original! Please check out the video for all the details […]
A new DF Retro video series on the launch of the PlayStation 1 recently had its final part uploaded. The series goes over the launch of the PS1 in all 3 territories. Part 1 covers the PS1 launch in Japan, part 2 covers the launch in North America, and part 3 covers the launch in […]
