After watching Dan Kunz (citrus3000psi) do instructional videos for the DCHDMI and Wii Dual, I developed an interest in the JBC soldering equipment he was using, because it was so different than other equipment I’ve seen. JBC makes some really nice stuff, but it’s really expensive so I decided to see if I could try […]
Midwest Embedded has begun sending out notifications to newsletter subscribers that their GBC backlights are now up for pre-order. They sold out of their initial inventory before many people could get an order in. These pre-orders are expected to ship in July. There are currently quite a few options for backlit GBC replacement screens, but […]
The video game industry has changed pretty significantly since I started playing some 30+ years ago, some for better and some for worse. Many of us are privileged to engage in the celebration and preservation of video games as a legitimate part of our cultural heritage by collecting and playing those games in the present […]
VerilogBoy is a project to fully implement original GameBoy hardware in FPGA. While it seems like it still has a ways to go before it might be considered a good solution for playing cycle-accurate GameBoy games on a large screen, it’s certainly seems to show some potential to that end. The project creator plans to […]
Professor Abrasive has posted an update on the status of the Satiator ODE for the Saturn. The gist of the update is that the PCBs, components and stencils have been shipped to the fabrication house and will hopefully be returning to him shortly after which he will prove out the QA test rig by rigorously […]
Watermelon games put themselves on the retro gaming map back in 2010 with the release of Pier Solar on the Mega Drive/Genesis; a JRPG that arguably stands beside the 16-bit masterpieces which inspired it like Lunar: The Silver Star, and Chronotrigger. In the last couple of years however, Watermelon’s main source of notoriety has gone […]
