The latest model of the Fenrir optical drive emulator for Saturn appeared on the official webstore yesterday. Dubbed the “Fenrir Lite,” it sports a new purple board and is being sold for €50 (about US$58). The webstore says the Fenrir Lite is on backorder and orders will ship starting Aug. 1. That’s because Ced, the […]
The Sony PDF Sorting Project continues on ConsoleMods.org! What is it? As a refresher of the first post a year and a half ago, we’ve scraped a ton of documents from multiple Sony websites from public Archive.org backups. These documents contain Sony memos that were sent out to distributors, and operation and service manuals for […]
Analogue has just sent out an email to people who pre-ordered the “3D”, stating their FPGA-based, 4K Nintendo 64 will ship in late August. Analogue will be absorbing the tariff costs and no additional charges will be applied to people’s orders. There’s still no footage of it in action, however they’re claiming reviews will be […]
8Bitdo have just opened pre-orders on the latest version of their “Pro” controller. This has some new features like Swappable Magnetic ABXY Buttons, which allow you to switch between Switch and Xbox layouts with the included button puller. It also has TMR joysticks with 12-bit ADC sampling chip and it allows you to switch between […]
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Downing has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a complete Nintendo 64 portabalization kit. It includes almost everything you’d need to make a true handheld N64, including a 3D printed enclosure and boards/circuits designed by 4LayerTech. You’ll still need to provide an original N64 and trim the motherboard, but the trimming required for this project […]
Retro Fighters have just launched a Kickstarter for a device that sits around your Switch 2’s dock and includes four low-latency GameCube controller ports. These connect to the original dock’s USB ports with an included cable and allow up to four wired GC controllers to be used. Each dock will also come with Included with […]
I recently recorded a podcast with Peter, the creator of Open3DOLED – A hardware kit designed to allow certain high-refresh-rate displays to display 3D content like blu-rays and 3D video games. While it’s not currently an easy thing to accomplish, it may soon be the only way we can experience all of the really cool […]
The Kramer VP725DS and VP-747 are switchable scalers that can be programmed with custom resolutions. Reports on the Shumps forum suggested they can downscale to 240p, but not without quirks. Top row: Kramer VP-725DS. Bottom row: Kramer VP-747 Switching and Scaling Credit to Kumulus 28 for discovering 240p output on the VP-725DS The VP-725DS is […]
Yahel from Wrestling With Gaming just posted a new documentary about the Sega Activator: One of the first motion-based controllers, that was advertised as a way to use your body to play Sega Genesis games. This was a short, but great video that talked a bit about its history, how it worked and why it […]
