New Super Mario Land stands as a high water mark of homebrew coding–a masterpiece for the ages. A 16-bit re-imagining of the classic Game Boy Super Mario Land for the Super Nintendo by a legendary scene coder. Although after hours of gameplay, the characters’ “woohoo!” jumping sound effect can become repetitive, so many requested a […]
YouTube user マツケん/ MatsukeN recently posted a video comparing how very different each NES/Famicom console outputs audio. Now, of course, there’s a lof of things that factor into this comparison. What version of the motherboard was in each? Were they original capacitors, or was a full cap replacement done on each console? What’s the quality of […]
While the work done at RetroRGB is centered around video games, we’re essentially a “technology” site focused on gaming. As a result, we’re constantly running into deep technical issues and very often that includes getting older computer hardware to work on newer equipment and operating systems. One common issue: Drivers. Developer Ben Cox ran into […]
Emulicious, the GB, GBC, SMS and GG emulator has just had its second major update this year. This emulator is popular with developers for it’s debugging features and full control of the games. This update features SMS FM Sound support, as well as tabs in the memory editor: For the Master System and Game Gear […]
Sega CD comes to MiSTer care of Srg320, author of the Super Nintendo Core and its special chips (CX4, DSP1-4, OBC-1, SA-1, S-DD1, SPC7110, S-RTC, ST010, Super FX/GSU), as well as Virtua Racing’s SVP chip for the Sega Genesis. The Sega CD core is very solid for a first release. All 150 official releases have […]
The Swiss team of Extrems and emukidid just released a significant update for the now-indispensable Gamecube tool. This time around Extrems focused on fixing games that showed to be troublesome on previous versions of Swiss, especially when running off an SD card (New adopters of Citrus 3000psi‘s SD2SP2 should hugely benefit from this update) . […]
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Gamebox Systems just announced a new standalone, VGA-outputting kit for the original Gameboy named DMG Consolizer. Using the newly designed DMTV board by Postman, the DMG Consolizer offers 800×600 VGA output (through a D-sub 15 connector), Prosound (ideally used with LSDJ) and support for NES controllers (the NES port has to be provided by the […]
Kevin Mellott has just shared some more details of his upcoming HyperFlash32 project. While the project started out as a single-flash cart for the Virtual Boy has evolved into something absolutely unique and awesome! Here’s everything added: The case will now be made of a carbon fiber black 3D printed frame, surrounded by a strong […]
Both Artemio and Smokemonster were recently guests on one of the most famous podcasts in retro gaming: Retronauts!: https://retronauts.com/article/1386/episode-261-ventures-into-the-new-frontier-of-emulation https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retronauts-episode-261-the-mister-revolution/id672857593?i=1000457809975 It’s so exciting to see such hard working people in the retro gaming scene get the recognition that they’ve certainly earned in their years of contributions to the scene. While fans of both people might […]
