Many years after McWill released the first modern screen mod for the Game Gear, he has come back with an updated design that finally allows for integer scaling that utilizes the full size of the screen. Known as the McWill Ver 4.0 or simply “640×480”, this modification is available as both a traditional screen mod […]
FM Towns Marty console users have enjoyed the availability of an optical drive emulator in the “Doc Brown” for years. Now Deunan has released the “Grey Tower Wizard” optical drive emulator for the FM Towns PC which makes a larger portion of the FM Towns library accessible from an SD card. How Do You […]
On April 4th 2021 an anonymous YouTube account called “cvr exists” seemingly created for the specific purpose of showing off a long lost prototype of the cancelled Castlevania Resurrection for Dreamcast posted a three-minute video showing a debug/demo build of the game dated 11/5/99 being loaded on a Dreamcast and played. According to The Dreamcast […]
Since September of 2018 TrekkiesUnite118 has been working on an English translation patch for the Saturn version of the JRPG Grandia. I’ve written about this project a couple of times before when it passed a milestone, and now the story seems to be finally coming to a close. Early this month thanks to some absolute […]
A developer going by the name “sling-homebrew” has created a save game manager for the Sega Saturn and provided it as open source on Github (https://github.com/slinga-homebrew/Save-Game-Copier). It’s still considered “Alpha” but already seems to be fully functional. The developer used the Satiator fork of the Yabuse emulator to integrate Satiator support – giving owners of […]
With the Satiator finally seeing a “Retail” release (right now it’s only being sold to Patreon patrons, but will be available to everyone in the fairly near term) I was finally able to kick the tires on this long-awaited device. A Crowded Market In the three years that the Satiator has been incubating the Saturn […]
Nicholas Piegdon who goes by the name Falonn at AtariAge has just completed development on a new RGB Mod for the ColecoVision (and technically anything that uses the TMS992xA chip to generate video). The new mod is designed to address all of the outstanding issues with existing RGB mods. Most notably incorrect color generation, and […]
Deunan, the designer of the official GDEMU (Dreamcast), the Phoebe and Rhea (Saturn) and the Doc Brown (FM Towns Marty) ODEs has just teased a work-in-progress picture of an ODE for the FM Towns tower PCs tentatively called the “Grey Tower Wizard”. The new device is designed to be installed internally without requiring removal of […]
TrekkiesUnite118’s English translation of the Saturn version of Grandia is moving along at a good clip with just a few outstanding items to be done until it’s considered complete. The most recent official status update from the forum: Fix all the voice synchronization issues. Fix the alignment issue with “Your Initiative” and “Ambushed!” in the […]
Over on the SegaXtreme forums a member by the name TrekkiesUnite118 has started a thread about using the English translation from the Playstation version of Grandia to localize the Japanese Saturn version. https://segaxtreme.net/threads/translating-grandia.24330/ In its day Grandia was an incredible technical achievement and remains one of my favorite games of all time. I have always […]
