The modshop @Consoles4You from Switzerland was kind enough to give me their new XBox2Wii Component adapter for review. This pass-through adapter allows you to use a Wii Component cable on your OG XBox. The XBox2Wii is sold 24.90 CHF (~23€ or ~25.6 USD) on Consoles4You website on this page. A bundle version with @HDRetroVision Wii […]
The talented community member @Retrostuff_org (so not Adam Zey, aka @Guspaz who owns webshop retrostuff.ca) has made good progress regarding Region mod on the Philips CD-i players. While most of the models can be simply modded for 50/60Hz, changing properly from PAL to NTSC or vice versa is tricky. In his article, the person behind […]
I acquired a SNS-102 controller and wanted to do a teardown to see if there was anything special about this SNES controller vs the original SNS-005 controller. I only recently found out this controller existed after watching MLiG’s First Party Controllers video. Naturally when Try said there was something “different” about the controller I had to […]
Kevin Mellott has just announced an updated version of his single flash carts. These are designed for use with his custom programmer and are aimed at dev’s looking to sell their own homebrew. The carts feature 8kx8 SRAM, which means your savegame files will be stored after the Virtual Boy is powered off, without the need […]
Furrtek has just posted a video that gives us a glimpse into how he decaps his chips and how he begins his reverse-engineering process. To anyone unfamiliar with this, please allow me to explain: In order to create accurate FPGA (hardware emulation) cores, you essentially need to recreate the original hardware in HDL (Hardware Description […]
Last year, I reported on an effort by Gc8tech to scan the rare Nintendo Power Cartridge Service Manual in high resolution. The Nintendo Power service (not the magazine of the same namesake) was a kiosk based flash cartridge that Nintendo offered in Japan, where users could buy an SF-Cassette that could be reflashed with Super […]
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Krikzz is continuing to push out updates for both the original N8 and newly released N8 Pro ROM carts for the NES and Famicom. This current v2.03 update ads three new mappers, while also fixing issues with three existing ones: New mappers: 208, 195, 261 Changed FDS autoswap controller. Fixes for mapper 99, 198, 4 […]
Developer Thunderstruck has just completed the English translation of the Virtual Boy game SD Gundam. The game previously had all most of the in-game text translated, but this patch finishes the original work and even includes the end credits. Sometimes people underestimate the importance of game translations. While they’re not as flashy as full game […]
The MSX will be getting a physical version of a recently released shmup game called Uchūsen Gamma. Preorders as reported by ericb59 on MSX.org, are up and buyers can secure a preorder for their MSX, but need to make sure that their MSX has 16K of RAM installed to run this game. Shipments should start […]
