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Pre-orders for Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore will be opening this Friday, February 2nd. It’s a “spiritual successor” to the infamous CDi Zelda games, created by Seth Fulkerson, who completely remastered both of the notorious Philips CDi Zelda games for PC. You can purchase Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series versions for $35. Special […]
A fantastic CRT colour calibration guide has appeared on YouTube this week courtesy of Lex Locatelli. CRT colour calibration is often a task people like to do by eye. However due to a lot of factors around how human vision can be fooled by certain lighting conditions, this can leave you with a display […]
The HyperBoy, a rom cart for Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, originally developed by Kevin Mellot from RetroOnyx, is now available for purchase at Stone Age Gamer. It’s priced at $165 and, at the moment, can be ordered in two different colors: red or black. For an additional $50, you get a box set containing: a quick […]
MiSTex The MiSTeX FPGA board for QMTech FPGA’s is almost ready to be sent to be fabricated. Hans mentions that a run of 5 boards should cost around $22 assembled without headers. When you include the Raspberry Pi and FPGA, everything will run you less than $200 even when using an FPGA that’s twice as […]
Here’s an interview with John and Anna, from Gamepadla: A software-based input lag testing solution that also offers a hardware-test option for extremely accurate results. I’m such a fan of any solution that makes lag testing easier and it would be hard to get much more accurate than this! Please check out their website, both […]
I recently had the privilege of taking an up close look at a very strange, but very cool, Game Boy Color Prototype Development board called the CGB-STB-X2. We know it’s a prototype due to the “X” designation in it’s code name (CGB-STB- “X” 2) as this is the nomenclature that Nintendo uses internally to designate […]
The Super Nintendo (and Super Famicom) had many motherboard revisions, each outputting different video quality. This video aims to clear up many misconceptions about when that quality difference matters, as well as showcase some mods to make ALL revisions output perfect RGB video! Here’s links to things I showed: SNES Info & Cables: https://www.retrorgb.com/snes.html SNES Transparent Shells: https://retrorgb.link/clearsnes […]
Hey all, Try from My Life in Gaming here! A while back, Voultar offered to install his in-development “SNES Edge-Enhancer” and “SNESRGB 2CHIP Bypass” mods for our analysis and review. After getting my Super Famicom back from him, I’ve spent the last month testing it like crazy, and my findings are in this video! For […]
While I was working on the previous episode of Behind the Code and researching Jekyll’s walking speed in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the NES, I noticed that the frame rate was rather odd. Turns out it is REALLY odd. If you’ve played the game, you may have noticed that the speed is inconsistent. […]
