Jotego’s CPS2 Beta, CPS1 Improvements

Jose Tejada, aka Jotego has just released some significant updates for his Patreon followers!  The first is the most exciting for general users:  The first game in the CPS2 beta core, Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, is now available to Patreon subscribers on the MiSTer and MiST/SiDi! platforms.  There’s still plenty of work to go […]

Darksoft CPS1 Multi Status Update

Darksoft has just posted an update regarding his upcoming multi kit for the CPS1:  A hardware board that will allow you to load up the entire CPS1 library and select a game through an LCD game selector screen (like with the CPS2 multi).  It looks like QSound has now been integrated, allowing games from the […]

Neo SD Pro AES & MVS Pre-Orders Open

Pre-orders are once again open for Neo Geo AES and MVS versions of the Neo SD Pro ROM cart.  The price is around $685: Neo SD Pro AES:  https://stoneagegamer.com/neosd-pro-aes.html?afmc=retrorgb Neo SD Pro MVS:  https://stoneagegamer.com/neosd-pro-mvs.html?afmc=retrorgb The cart is exactly the same as previous versions, which include: 4 Flash slots that retain the game assigned and boot instantly. 1 […]

SNES Legacy 16 wireless controller by Retro-bit

Castlemania Games is now accepting pre-orders for Retro-bit‘s latest addition to the Legacy16 line of products, a SNES-styled wireless controller. Earlier this year, Retro-bit unveiled a USB-only bare-bones wired version of the Legacy16. With the newer model, a slew of features were introduced placing the Legacy16 wireless more in line with the typical Switch-compatible retro-style […]

Nt mini Noir Deep Dive

Hey everyone, it’s Try from My Life in Gaming. We just released our episode on the Nt mini Noir, which as I’m sure you know by now, is completely redesigned in how it works, adding crucial features like interpolation. As usual, we tried to go through pretty much everything you can do with the system, […]

SuperRT Brings Ray Tracing to the SNES

Engineer and game developer Ben Carter has demonstrated a proof of concept “SuperRT” expansion chip that brings 3D ray tracing to the Super Nintendo. Ray tracing—a computationally demanding technique used to calculate realistic lighting in 3D graphics engines—has only recently become possible to render in real time on consumer level hardware, and at a hefty […]

Super Mario World SA-1 Patch

Romhacker Vitor Vilela has just released an updated rom patch for Super Mario World.  Vitor’s patches use the SA-1 enhancement chip to allow higher performance than the original Super Nintendo could have provided. These hacks can be played on the MiSTer, via the FXPak & FXPak Pro, via software emulation…and if you’d like to go […]

Interview with Jose Tejada aka Jotego

A few days ago, I spoke to Jose Tejada aka Jotego, the creator of some pretty amazing FPGA cores.  It was a really fun chat, with a mix of tech talk and general conversation.  I think anyone who’s a fan of MiSTer, FPGA’s, or just retro gaming in general might really enjoy this one! Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/topapate […]

Weekly Roundup #230

Here’s this week’s roundup!  An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download:  https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-12-02_230.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute:  Please consider signing up as a supporter!  Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services:  https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal  /  https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb   T-Shirts:  https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment […]