Hello readers! My name is Alex Mitchell and I’m a gaming enthusiast with a background in communications and film & television production. While I don’t have any professional training as a journalist, I still strive to accurately and honestly report on projects, products, and events in the retro gaming community. I could not be more honoured to be contributing to this website and hope you enjoy my articles.
P.S. My definition of “retro” is: If it has been fifteen years or two generations since the end of a game console’s lifespan.
I’m sure I’m not alone in my affection for the indie platformer, “Celeste”. Released in 2018, Celeste’s mix of easy to learn but difficult to master platforming, its driving soundtrack, and its timely narrative made it an indie darling that is still popular today. To wit, ROM hackers w7n, Morshu, StudsX, karmic, and Eden GT […]
PixelFX has just announced that their latest batch of N64Digital kits are en route from the assembly line and will be put up for sale soon through the regular channels. We’ve discussed the N64Digital quite a bit at this point, so if you’re new to the mod I wholeheartedly recommend watching My Life in Gaming‘s […]
The FXPak Pro (nee, the SD2SNES Pro) has received a new hardware revision that should be shipping to customers as of the date of this article. Although functionality seems to be the identical to previous FXPak Pro revisions, Rev.D is different enough that the current beta firmwares are not compatible with it. If you’ve received […]
Sebastian Staacks, the wild Game Boy hacker who was previously seen streaming Grand Theft Auto 5 over a WiFi DMG cartridge, has released another open source project that they’re calling the GB Interceptor. The project’s goals are simple: The GB Interceptor is an interposer cartridge that lives between your original Game Boy and your original […]
2BitBoy, a photographer whose artistic practice seems to revolve around the GameBoy Camera, has developed a pretty rad looking modification kit that allows other Game Boy Camera enthusiasts to have more control over the way it captures images. The 2BitToy kit essentially replaces the existing GB Camera shell and gives photographers the ability to use CS or […]
PixelFX, a cadre of retro hardware developers responsible for the N64Digital and PS1Digital, have announced a tentative release date for their latest project; a new revision of the DCDigital based off the same PixelFX framework as their other projects. The original DCDigital (nee, DCHDMI) is a modification that samples the Dreamcast’s digital A/V signals straight […]
Retro developer Fixel, who we’ve covered before for their 3DO optical drive emulator, has just announced and put up pre-orders for a Digital A/V mod that supports multiple consoles. As of this article, the kit supports: Earlier 3DO console revisions with a MADAM & CLIO chip. This mod may eventually support the single chip ANVIL 3DO […]
Since the last time we featured the Analogue Pocket on our front page, a variety of utilities, cores, and firmware updates have been released that have refined and expanded its capabilities: Cores: Spiritualized1997 releases another 17 cores, bringing the total up to 23 Spiritualized1997, the developer behind some of the first cores released for the […]
Humble Bazooka, a retro hardware developer currently distributing their retail projects through Stone Age Gamer, has announced a new product in their line of BlueRetro Bluetooth controller adapters: the 3DOBT. For those of you just becoming aware of BlueRetro, it is a hardware-agnostic Bluetooth controller adapter that supports just about any video game console you […]
I can think of at least a few consoles that have been completely subsumed by homebrew and modding communities—the Dreamcast, PSP, and Wii all come to mind—but it still feels like the original Xbox modding community is in a league of its own. While other consoles might have impressive soft-mods and even a few hardware […]
