Stone Age Gamer now has stock of a few Humble Bazooka’s Bluetooth adapters: The Neo Geo (AES / NGCD / MVS), Atari Jaguar, PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16 and 3DO adapters. All are based off Darthcloud’s open source Blueretro platform, that offers some of the lowest bluetooth latency ever recorded when used with a fast controller. Each are $50 […]
Here’s an interview with game developer Seth Fulkerson, better known in the scene as Dopply. Seth is the dev who completely remastered both of the notorious Philips CDi Zelda games for PC and made them actually playable! His next project is a game meant to be a “spiritual successor” to those two, called Arzette: The […]
A new fan-made PC port of Perfect Dark has just blasted its way onto GitHub. Based on the original 2000 N64 release, which was fully decompiled by enthusiasts late last year, this new work-in-progress PC port of Rare’s old FPS classic is shaping up very nicely. With no multiplayer, a lack of in-game options settings, […]
A talented modder by the name of Set just created one of the coolest mods for the Nintendo Switch. The mod he created was initially designed as a way to salvage old Switch console with broken displays that could only be used docked. Since a screen repair is quite difficult he thought that making a […]
Nearly thirty years after the console’s initial release, the Casio Loopy finally has a complete and verified romset! If you’ve never heard of the system before, the Casio Loopy was a 32-bit home console geared towards young girls, released in Japan in 1995. It featured a Hitachi SuperH SH7021 CPU, a Casio-developed sound system, and […]
The YouTube channel Little Car recently posted a video about the history of SCART, as well as why it works the way it does. If you’ve ever asked the questions: “How come there’s RGB in’s and out’s in one cable?”, “Why is there voltage?” “Why does SCART sound like shart?”, this video is a must […]
8bitmods & Rondo Productsjust opened pre-orders on a hilariously awesome case for your Nintendo Switch games. It’s modeled after a Blockbuster Video VHS rental case and can hold 12 Switch games and 4 memory cards. The price is about $20 and it’ll ship mid-November. UK Pre-Order: https://retrorgb.link/blockbusterswitchcase US Pre-Order: https://retrorgb.link/usblockbusterswitchcase Stuff like this are some of […]
Developer Cosam has just released an open source reproduction of the PC Engine motherboard. There are no plans to sell these in any form, this was just a reverse-engineering project meant to help people in the scene. If you’d like to build your own, you’ll need to transfer the proprietary chips from a donor PCE, […]
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So what exactly “killed” Sega? The troubling thing about this question is it really cannot be answered in a single video. What can be said is they lost quite a bit of money throughout the 1990’s. Thanks to a recent leak of the Sega FY1997 Brand Review, and translations of recent statements from former Sega […]
