Dan from Video Games New York was nice enough to let me borrow a few Game Boy Advance consoles, so I can compare the new IPS screen to the original AGS-101 backlit screen. Unfortunately, I don’t have a marco lens, so the footage isn’t nearly as good as I hoped it would be – There’s […]
Last week, Analogue teased an upcoming product release, with the colors of the post made up of the GameBoy DMG color palette. This hinted at a handheld console that uses Kevtris’ Game Boy and Game Boy Color cores, which wasn’t surprising, as they’d previously filed a trademark for both “Analogue Pocket” and “Analogue 8” earlier […]
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Today, developer Byuu released an alpha build of my favorite SNES emulator bsnes, that includes a latency-reducing “runahead mode“: https://cirrus-ci.com/github/byuu/bsnes/master I realize it’s still an alpha build, but I really wanted to see what the performance was like, so I broke out the high-speed camera and ran some lag tests! Please keep in mind that […]
Furrtek, mostly known for his excellent work with Neo-Geo hardware and FPGA, just released a 36-page documentation depicting his process of reverse-engineering the original DMG-001. In a 191-hour meticulous process, Furrtek was able to draw schematics for the following: All APU logic. All PPU logic. All I/O and timer logic. All DMA logic. All interrupt […]
The game Iceblox Plus is getting a physical release from the publisher Psytronik Software. Iceblox Plus is a homebrew game for the Commodore 64 (C64) developed by Karl Hörnell and is free to download or name your price support/purchase, and is also stated to be compatible for the C 64 Mini. Purchasable from the web […]
Arcade1Up is now shipping their third generation of cabinets. With each generation they make improvements, and this time they have made no exceptions. The new Star Wars cabinet is started to show up at Walmart and Walmart.com, and many are surprised at all the new features packed in this 3/4 sized arcade cabinet. Overall, the […]
Artemio has just released an updated version of the 240p Test Suite for Genesis & Sega CD. This includes integration of the MDFourier audio testing software he’d previously released as a separate update. A full list of updates are posted below and the software can be downloaded here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/testsuite240p/files/Sega_Genesis-MegaDrive-SegaCD_MegaCD/ Both versions Added MDFourier: please read […]
Extrems and Emukidid of the Swiss team has just released a few giant updates! One of the biggest is support for micro SD cards via an adapter designed by citrus3000psi that plugs into the bottom Serial Port 2 (on GC’s that offer the port). It requires a small, open source PCB that offers the same […]
SNES Central has just posted a full writeup of a newly found Super Nintendo prototype: The western localization of Super Ultra Baseball 2, which looks like it was going to be released as “Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 2”. The game appeared to be more than just a language translation, including an updated color palette and […]
