Alex Mitchell

Future N64Digital Kits Drop Analog RGB/ YPbPr Out

PixelFX has just announced that their latest batch of N64Digital kits are en route from the assembly line and will be put up for sale soon through the regular channels. We’ve discussed the N64Digital quite a bit at this point, so if you’re new to the mod I wholeheartedly recommend watching My Life in Gaming‘s […]

Alex Mitchell

PixelFX Announces Release date for DCDigital v2

PixelFX, a cadre of retro hardware developers responsible for the N64Digital and PS1Digital, have announced a tentative release date for their latest project; a new revision of the DCDigital based off the same PixelFX framework as their other projects. The original DCDigital (nee, DCHDMI) is a modification that samples the Dreamcast’s digital A/V signals straight […]

Alex Mitchell

Fixel Opens Pre-Orders for Multi-Console HDMI Mod

Retro developer Fixel, who we’ve covered before for their 3DO optical drive emulator, has just announced and put up pre-orders for a Digital A/V mod that supports multiple consoles. As of this article, the kit supports: Earlier 3DO console revisions with a MADAM & CLIO chip. This mod may eventually support the single chip ANVIL 3DO […]

Alex Mitchell

MakeMHz Announces Xbox Mod, “Project Stellar”

I can think of at least a few consoles that have been completely subsumed by homebrew and modding communities—the Dreamcast, PSP, and Wii all come to mind—but it still feels like the original Xbox modding community is in a league of its own. While other consoles might have impressive soft-mods and even a few hardware […]

Alex Mitchell

PixelFX Updates PS1Digital, N64Digital to v2.0

PixelFX, a trio of hardware developers responsible for some of the community’s most polished console HDMI mods, has just released a significant firmware update for both their PS1Digital and N64Digital output boards. While this update implements some exciting new features for users of both mods, it also gives us window in to how PixelFX plans to […]

Alex Mitchell

GCVideo Firmware 3.1 Released

Ingo Korb, one of the developers behind the GCVideo project—the basis of virtually every available HDMI and/or component video output mod for the GameCube and Wii—released a new firmware revision last Saturday that implements a handful of helpful bug fixes. Especially important for those of you revisiting the GameCube’s excellent catalog of horror games this October, […]

Vanessa (Vanessaira)

N64Digital Pre-orders Available 7 May 2021

The PixelFX company has just announced the pre-order window for the new N64Digital mod.  PixelFX is the newly established company formed from the combined talents of citrus3000psi, chriz2600, and Woozle. These individuals have contributed wonderful works to the retro gaming community but have now teamed up to create PixelFX and the N64Digital will be their […]

SmokeMonster

XboxHD+ Xbox HDMI Expansion Adds Scaling and New Features

Dustin from MakeMHz posted a blog update announcing updates to the original XboxHD, as well as the launch of an upcoming expanded version called XboxHD+ with a list of features aiming to fully modernize the original Xbox’s video output. Incredibly, the new features being added to the + model will also be applicable to the […]

Alex Mitchell

N64Digital Mod Announced by Pixel FX

Earlier this morning, a company calling itself Pixel FX—staffed by console modding legends Citrus300psi, Chriz2600, and Woozle64—announced a new digital-to-digital modification for the Nintendo 64. The unsurprisingly named N64Digital follows in the footsteps of similar modifications for the Dreamcast and Playstation, appearing to offer the same rich feature set that has made those mods instant […]