Hello, I’m ChrisFratz. But you can call me Chris. When it comes to retro gaming, I personally love emulating a lot. Along with modern ports and remasters I think it’s one of the most important things in retro gaming as it’s one of the most accessible ways to play these old games.
If you wanna here what I have to say about other kinds of things you can follow me on my twitter, though what I say on there are my thoughts alone.
A couple months ago, the YouTube channel Nerrel uploaded a video summarizing a few of the advancements that have been made in the emulation scene. While covering things that have written posts about here in the past like the widescreen hack for Super Mario World, the Messen HD packs, and the SA-1 enhancement hacks from […]
Valve has just recently announced and opened pre-order reservations for their new Steam Deck handheld PC. A handheld PC running a custom AMD APU with 4 cores and 8 threads on the CPU side. On the GUP side it’s based on an AMD RDNA2 architecture with 8 compute units. It also has 3 version you […]
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 […]
Well, E3 came and went this year and while mostly being focused on new upcoming game like the new Halo or Battlefield, Limited Run Games also gave some old games the spotlight with new physical releases of retro game compilations, like a physical Castlevania Requiem and the Contra Anniversary Collection, and even a re-releases […]
343 Industries, the developers of Halo: The Master Chief Collection (MCC) have released (and concluded while writing this) the flight of their new season 7 content update to the collection where they’re testing out some of the new stuff. And one of the big things that is getting tested is the restoration of the graphics […]
Twitter user @DarioSamo has recently released a mod for the PC port of Super Mario 64 called SM64RT (Super Mario 64 Ray Tracing). What this does is that it completely overhauls how the game looks, and how it’s rendered. Because it’s using something called path tracing. What most games that support ray tracing do […]
Nostalgia Nerd released a video going into detail on how the game kkrieger was made to fit in around 96 KB of storage space. The game was made by the demoscene group Farbrausch for a game competition that was hosted at a demoscene event in 2004 called Breakpoint. The idea of the contest was to […]
The modding group Map Labs has recently released a new mod for Half-Life 2 in their Test Tube series called Crossfire. Map Labs is a mapping competition for Half-Life 2 where they get a bunch of people together to make maps based on a theme that gets chosen for the mod. The mappers are given […]
On March 23rd, developer Screaming Villains released Ground Zero Texas Nuclear Edition for the PS4 and PC via Steam. What this is is a remaster of a Sega CD game released in 1993 by Digital Pictures. The game is set in El Cadron, a small town in the state of Texas where people have been […]
Vitor Vilela uploaded a video to Twitter of a widescreen optimized hack for the game Super Mario World running on the BSNES emulator. What if Super Mario World was optimized to run at widescreen 16:9? Here is the result ⬇️ Honestly, it looks awesome, it even feels a PC game! pic.twitter.com/Mn1HsbFcbg — Vitor Vilela […]
