July 2023 Archives

MiSTer FPGA News – The Simpsons, Nintendo 64, Super Off-Road & More

Posted on July 31, 2023August 1, 2023 by Lu

1Konami SCC Schematics Core developer Raki has fully extracted schematics for the Konami SCC chip. This chip was used in the MSX, but Raki also mentions that this could be used for a City Bomber or Haunted Castle core. Post : https://twitter.com/RCAVictorCo/status/1683831415643963403 Raki support page: https://www.patreon.com/ikamusume Raki Twitter: https://twitter.com/RCAVictorCo Raki Github: https://github.com/ika-musume MiSTex and Other MiSTer Port sy2002 […]

8bitdo M30 Now Available in Classic Sega Saturn White

Posted on July 30, 2023 by Donald

Saturn fans rejoice! 8bitdo’s excellent M30 controller just got a lovely new makeover in the style of the Sega Saturn’s Japan-only HSS-0101 pad. With a solid white body, six multicoloured face buttons and two deep red shoulder buttons, the new M30 is a perfect re-creation of that old NTSC-J controller which tantalized PAL and NTSC […]

Xenocrisis Now Available On Super Nintendo

Posted on July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 by Bob

Bitmap Bureau have just opened pre-orders on a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom version of Xenocrisis. There are NTSC, PAL and Japanese versions of the game, all with standard and limited editions. And each run in true 60fps! The price is about $70 / $100 plus shipping and it’s due to arrive at customers before […]

GCLoader Pre-Orders open Monday, July 31st

Posted on July 29, 2023July 29, 2023 by Alex Mitchell

The GCLoader, a GameCube optical drive emulator from Daniel Kraak (meneerbeer) and Dan Kunz (citrus3000psi), will finally be back in stock this coming Monday, July 31st. Released in 2019, the GCLoader was the first commercially available ODE for the Nintendo GameCube, boasting improved functionality over existing SD card interfaces and (after an awkward initial release) […]

Why Museums still use CRTs

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Steve from Retro Tech

I had a chance to sit down with Kirston Otis, the Audio and Video Design department head for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is in charge of many projects at the Museum. One of which is to preserve the museum’s large collection of CRTs and other retro video devices. We discuss the methods […]

RetroTINK 4K Details Revealed

Posted on July 29, 2023November 15, 2023 by Bob

Mike Chi has just revealed details about the upcoming RetroTINK 4K. I’ve personally been testing this product for months and am so excited to finally be able to discuss it publicly, however there’s one thing I need to clarify before we continue: This should be considered the “Sony BVM” of scalers. You don’t need a BVM. […]

The Garbage Sprites in Strider (NES) – Behind the Code

Posted on July 28, 2023 by DisplacedGamers

Strider for NES is quite possibly the most requested game for the Behind the Code series. It feels like it will fall apart at any moment. Random sprites appear in random places on the screen as the frames roll by. What the heck is happening? A minor bug somewhere? Oh… it is MUCH worse than […]

Sam’s Journey NES Pre-Order

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Bob

It’s been a few years, but the NES port of Knights of Bytes‘ C64 game Sam’s Journey is finally up for pre-order! This game was originally released on the Commodore 64 and the team who created it has now made an NES version. There’s both PAL and NTSC versions available and the team compensated for […]

Retro G.E.M UK Distibutor

Posted on July 27, 2023February 1, 2025 by Bob

If you live in Europe, were interested in Pixel FX’s new internal HDMI mod and want to save on shipping, 8BitMods has you covered! The price is $125 for a complete kit, then if you want the paid software upgrade that allows for 1080p output, you’ll have to do that through the Pixel FX website […]

New Sega CD Mode 1 PCM Driver by Vic the developer behind Doom 32x Resurrection

Posted on July 27, 2023July 27, 2023 by Matt B

Victor Luchitz has been at it again! This time he’s create a sound driver for the Mega Drive that allows the Sega CD’s PCM sound hardware to be accessed when running a cart based game. The driver supports playback of up to 8 mono sound streams played via the Ricoh RF6C164 chip. Samples are uploaded […]