Here’s a full playthrough of the game Space Ava 201, featuring it’s creator Nicole Branagan aka Nicole Express. As previously reported, Space Ava is a single-player puzzle-adventure game for the TurboGrafx / PCE CD, that can also utilize the Arcade Card to speed up loading, as well as a SuperGrafx for adding visual enhancements to […]
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=2020-11-11_227.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 used […]
Nicole Express released a new open-source PC Engine CD space adventure puzzler, Space Ava 201: Quantum Field Theory. In addition to being a very interesting game, it also features lots of impressive technical wizardry under the hood. Space Ava 201: Quantum Field Theory is a single-player puzzle-adventure game for the TurboGrafx-CD. It features multiple turn-based gameplay styles, a huge array of […]
An MSU-MD patch for Road Rash II was just released that ads the full soundtrack remade by Dean Harris. This should be playable on the Mega Everdrive Pro, Mega SD, the MiSTer, some software emulators…and even on a real Genesis/Sega CD combo by running the ROM on a Genesis cart (or ROM cart) and burning […]
Sega are having a sale on Steam currently, with their “Sega Genesis and Megadrive Classics Collection” getting a 90% discount, and coming it at under $10: https://store.steampowered.com/app/34270/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/ Included are 58 games. Sega provide an interesting “virtual room” experience with a TV and shelves showing off the games (including VR mode which is kind of cool), however […]
Introduction GroovyArcade is an entire Linux distribution dedicated to running emulators (including MAME) on a standard PC, outputting video signals to standard definition arcade CRT monitors. This is a brief introduction to the project, as a dedicated how-to would require many pages and videos to go through all the options available. https://github.com/substring/os/releases http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130667.0.html The […]
Terraonion has just released the MVS version of their Neo SD Pro ROM cart. The price after shipping to the US came to around $660 and it comes with just the ROM cart and case like the AES version. Please note that shipping and taxes will be based on your location: https://shop.terraonion.com/en/neo-geo-mvs-arcade-board/18-neosd-pro-mvs.html According to a […]
The fan-made port of the game Cave Story to the Sega Genesis has been updated and it appears savegame support has been fixed: https://github.com/andwn/cave-story-md/releases It’s odd that the full list of changes (below) since the last time we wrote about Cave Story don’t list a savegame issue at all. I did attempt to report the issue […]
Modern Vintage Gamer recently posted a video that describes the dithering technique used in the PlayStation 1. While dithering had been used for quite awhile before the PS1 came around, what set the PS1 apart was that Sony built in support for dithering as part of the main console’s design. As a result, it was […]
Stephen Jones, the man behind the retro inspired Checkmate A1500 computer case. Has developed a new retro inspired case called the “Amiga Mini”. The Amiga Mini is a slightly smaller case when compared to the Checkmate A1500 and is designed to be more in line with the dimensions of the O.E.M. (Original Equipment Manufactured) […]
