2019 has been a very active year for Sega Saturn developers and fans. This year alone, the Saturn has received modern wireless controller options, a new analog stick controller, a new ODE announcement, better Pseudo Saturn carts, a W-I-P 3D engine, “HD backgrounds” via Yaba Sanshiro, and English patches for Linkle Liver Story & Grandia. […]
Project Neon, a recently announced Neo-Geo shmup released a public “Caravan Demo” that is playable on real hardware, MAME, and the MiSTer. The proposed game, which we covered recently on this blog, is set to be a co-op a bullet hell shmup with selectable levels when completed. Developer release notes are as follows: Project Neon […]
The Retron 5 custom firmware released by ManCloud now has an English version available. For those that are not familiar with the custom firmware released prior, it’s a pre-rooted version of the original Retron 5 operating system that provides the following features: Pre-rooted system ADB activated by default German system interface (self-translated – comments are […]
Thanks to the MD+ format that debuted on Terraonion’s Mega SD flash cart, some classic Genesis & Mega Drive games over the last few months that have received CD audio quality tracks. Recently, Terranonion asked the gaming community what games they would like to see patched for the Mega SD. Games such as Strider, Outrun, […]
Tis’ the season of wireless N64 controllers with Retro-bit throwing their hat into the ring with retro-competitor Hyperkin. Unlike the latter which is based on Bluetooth technology, the recently announced Retro-bit “Tribute64” will be based on a 2.4GHZ technology. Coming in 2020 – #Tribute64 evolved & has gone wireless! Take a look at what we […]
Since its reveal a few years back on Kickstarter, I’ve kept a close eye on Xeno Crisis. If you haven’t heard of Xeno Crisis, it’s reminiscent of classic arcade games such as Smash TV. As far as new games for old consoles go, Bitmap Bureau seemed to want to provide a “triple A” experience on […]
A Youtuber by the name of Andreas Scholl has quietly posted a few work-in-progress videos of his Burning Rangers tribute demo. Right away, I was blown away by just how much the game looks like an upscaled Dreamcast port of the original Saturn release. See below: The description on this video states: This shows the […]
Back in August, I had the opportunity to speak with developer Coin Feeder about his upcoming “tate” shoot-em-up (shmup) game for the Neo-Geo named Project Neon. In addition to describing what the game would entail, at the time, he shared with me that he planned to launch a crowdfunding campaign in order to get his […]
Once again, Yaba Sanshiro, the Sega Saturn emulator by devMiyax has been updated to version 2.9.0. In addition to any tweaks and fixes when updating, this updated version officially supports three new games. These games are: Assault Leynos 2 Stellar Assault SS Alone In The Dark 2 Yaba Sanshiro can be installed on Windows, Android, […]
A recent Amazon listing revealed to the world that a new Nvidia Shield TV model is scheduled for release in the near future. The listing (now removed) revealed that there will be some improvements over the previous model. These expected updates include 3GB of RAM, an updated Tegra X1+ chip, Dolby vision, and a refreshed […]
