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.
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 […]
(Update 22-09-19: An update has been released for the SNES core, bringing a few fixes and enhancement chip changes. Because the Pocket is designed differently than the DE-10 Nano board that powers the MiSTer, it’s going to take a little more time for the Pocket port of the SNES core to support all of the […]
An Indiegogo campaign has been announced for the VM2: a modern redesign of the Dreamcast‘s hybrid handheld console and memory card. Like many of the features the Dreamcast is notable for, the original VMU was as innovative as it was flawed—its screen displays useful information in some titles and its ability to play mini-games is a charming […]
If you’ve been interested in checking out the Pokemon Mini—Nintendo’s Pokemon themed micro handheld from 2001—then today is your lucky day! Developer Grieverheart, who I can’t seem to find much of a history for, has released a MiSTer FPGA core that seems to work well so far. Rather than try to extoll the virtues of this […]
Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition, a community-led effort to remaster the PC port of this survival horror classic, is currently seeking assistance from the modding community. While some incredible work has been done to bring the game to parity with the best versions of the game, even exceeding them in many regards, there are still […]
