I recently released a video about the upcoming Retro Analog to Digital 2x, or ‘RAD2x’ cables, which are the only plug & play cables worth using for pre-sixth generation consoles. In short, the cables are fairly priced, process 240p correctly (no flicker or blur) and don’t add any lag to the output. While I was very proud […]
If the Atari 5200 is known for one thing, it’s for having the worst controller of any mainstream system. It’s not that the form factor is bad, it’s in fact quite good. However, when you try using it, that’s when things start to unravel. Failure rates, even with new units, were though the roof. Repairs […]
Loïc Petit has expanded his CPS-2 board traces into a fully fledged backwards engineering project with the goal of creating complete CPS-2 schematics for repair and FPGA use. The project aims to describe the circuits of both the PCB and its custom chips. More details: https://gitlab.com/loic.petit/cps2-reverse
InsideGadgets just released a VGA out solution for the Game Boy Advance named Advance VGA. The Altera Max 10 based Advance VGA offers 3x scaling of the GBA’s original 240×160 resolution and outputs at a fixed resolution of 800×600 through a D-sub connector, while maintaining the system’s original refresh rate of 59.7 Hz. The main […]
Extrems has released a few more updates of the Game Boy Interface software. As usual, there’s an impressive list of additions and bugfixes and anyone using GBi should update their SD cards. As always, I recommend using GBi along with the latest version of Swiss. Here’s the changelog since the July GBi update: All GBi […]
Here’s an interview with the person who’s responsible for all of our NES’ to finally output good video: Tim Worthington. As the creator of the NESRGB, 2600RGB and the first to release an N64RGB, he’s changed the experience of almost everyone in the retro gaming scene! I was thrilled to have him over and talk […]
A Youtuber by the name of Andreas Scholl has quietly posted a few work-in-progress videos of his Burning Rangers tribute demo. Right away, I was blown away by just how much the game looks like an upscaled Dreamcast port of the original Saturn release. See below: The description on this video states: This shows the […]
Back in August, I had the opportunity to speak with developer Coin Feeder about his upcoming “tate” shoot-em-up (shmup) game for the Neo-Geo named Project Neon. In addition to describing what the game would entail, at the time, he shared with me that he planned to launch a crowdfunding campaign in order to get his […]
Kevin Mellott has just opened pre-orders for a single-flash cart for the Virtual Boy, called the HyperFlash32: http://www.mellottsvrpage.com/index.php/hyperflash32/ Kevin’s previously announced MultiBoy32 – a device closer to a true ROM cart, has been delayed for a number of reasons, one of which is the lack of Virtual Boy cartridge connectors available. Since the only other […]
Retro Fighters just posted an update on their Kickstarter page. In it they state that the initial samples are finished and wish to get the prototypes into a test batch production run. If the pilot production and final set of testing is successful. Mass production will soon follow. Retro Fighters had hoped to have these […]
