Sega has just revealed the third and final set of games that will be included on the Astro City Mini emulation console, which includes Space Harrier. As always, I have mixed feelings about these “toys”. While they’re fun and look neat on a shelf, it’s important to note that the price of the Astro Mini […]
Analogue has just announced that they’ll be doing a second pre-order for the upcoming NT Mini Noir. It will happen tomorrow August 11th at 8AM PST. The price is still $500 + shipping and it will be available here: https://www.analogue.co/editions/nt-mini-noir There was a bit of controversy around the Noir, as pre-orders opened and closed a few […]
Analogue has just announced that thay’ll be opening pre-orders for their “pocket” handheld FPGA system one week from today on August 3rd, with delivery expected in May of 2021. The Pocket is an FPGA-based device that plays GB, GBC and GBA games, while also supporting GG, NGPC and Lynx via cartridge adapters (sold separately). The […]
St1ka has just posted his review of the game Dune for MS DOS, based off *the movie from the 80’s. While Dune 2 may have had more of an impact on gaming, the original was interesting as it was a combination of a point & click adventure game and a real-time strategy game. While St1ka’s […]
Sega of Japan has just announced another mini emulation console, this time modeled off the Astro City cabinet. The price is $130 on Amazon and it’s expected to ship in December of this year. There’s also a control pad that will sell for around $30 as well. The design looks similar to the Neo Geo […]
John Linneman from Digital Foundry has just posted an excellent documentary on the Final Fight game series. While I don’t want to give away any spoilers, I definitely had a few thoughts to share. First, I was really surprised at how respectable the Sega CD version turned out to be. I was especially happy that […]
Darksoft has unveiled his latest arcade multi system, this time for Namco System 1, a platform with notable games like Splatterhouse, Dragon Spirit (one of my personal favorites), Dangerous Seed, Galaga ’88, Marchen Maze, Pac Mania, and more. It is priced at 320 Euros (about $360 USD), and will require a donor System 1 arcade […]
The MDFourier / 240p Test Suite team has been continuing to post regular updates to the incredible test software. The NES, GB and GBA versions of the suite were recently updated and they’ve also, been continuing their tests on hardware…including MicroSD cards. Bernie, aka bfbii has been publishing documentation of his MicroSD test results, which […]
Rober Peip AKA FPGAzumSpass is coding an open-source FPGA implementation of the Nintendo DS, as a follow-up to his FPGA GBA core. Although the DS core is young and progress will be slow considering the complexity of the hardware, he does now have it booting games, and he posted a video of it running Ace […]
This weekend, I decided to fully restore a Super Nintendo “1CHIP” console I had and wanted to post what I did, as well as why I did it. The basic theory of what to do would apply to almost any console, however the origin of RetroRGB started with my love for the Super Nintendo and […]
