Saturn fans rejoice! 8bitdo’s excellent M30 controller just got a lovely new makeover in the style of the Sega Saturn’s Japan-only HSS-0101 pad. With a solid white body, six multicoloured face buttons and two deep red shoulder buttons, the new M30 is a perfect re-creation of that old NTSC-J controller which tantalized PAL and NTSC […]
Bitmap Bureau have just opened pre-orders on a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom version of Xenocrisis. There are NTSC, PAL and Japanese versions of the game, all with standard and limited editions. And each run in true 60fps! The price is about $70 / $100 plus shipping and it’s due to arrive at customers before […]
The GCLoader, a GameCube optical drive emulator from Daniel Kraak (meneerbeer) and Dan Kunz (citrus3000psi), will finally be back in stock this coming Monday, July 31st. Released in 2019, the GCLoader was the first commercially available ODE for the Nintendo GameCube, boasting improved functionality over existing SD card interfaces and (after an awkward initial release) […]
I had a chance to sit down with Kirston Otis, the Audio and Video Design department head for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is in charge of many projects at the Museum. One of which is to preserve the museum’s large collection of CRTs and other retro video devices. We discuss the methods […]
Mike Chi has just revealed details about the upcoming RetroTINK 4K. I’ve personally been testing this product for months and am so excited to finally be able to discuss it publicly, however there’s one thing I need to clarify before we continue: This should be considered the “Sony BVM” of scalers. You don’t need a BVM. […]
Strider for NES is quite possibly the most requested game for the Behind the Code series. It feels like it will fall apart at any moment. Random sprites appear in random places on the screen as the frames roll by. What the heck is happening? A minor bug somewhere? Oh… it is MUCH worse than […]
It’s been a few years, but the NES port of Knights of Bytes‘ C64 game Sam’s Journey is finally up for pre-order! This game was originally released on the Commodore 64 and the team who created it has now made an NES version. There’s both PAL and NTSC versions available and the team compensated for […]
If you live in Europe, were interested in Pixel FX’s new internal HDMI mod and want to save on shipping, 8BitMods has you covered! The price is $125 for a complete kit, then if you want the paid software upgrade that allows for 1080p output, you’ll have to do that through the Pixel FX website […]
Victor Luchitz has been at it again! This time he’s create a sound driver for the Mega Drive that allows the Sega CD’s PCM sound hardware to be accessed when running a cart based game. The driver supports playback of up to 8 mono sound streams played via the Ricoh RF6C164 chip. Samples are uploaded […]
If you’re a MiSTer FPGA owner, a must have utility to include in your setup is wizzo’s remote script. This script not only lets you control your MiSTer from any device with a web browser, but it can also allow you to search for a game to run, add favorites, manage your ini settings […]
