When Professor Abrasive released the Satiator — the optical drive emulator he invented that plugs into the Saturn’s rear VCD card port — it could play hundreds of games off an SD card without issue. But players looking to try out their newly bought Satiator seemed to run to one game again and again: Marvel […]
It’s been almost a year (11 months to be exact) since the Satiator saw it’s last firmware update, so while this new may not be a big deal.., seeing the announcement from Professor Abrasive certainly caught our attention… Satiator owners may remember the last update FW157, which allowed for better handling of cards with frequent […]
Extrems just released a new version of the Game Boy Interface (GBi) software for the Gamecube, that mainly takes advantage of the latest GCVideo-Dvi firmware update v 3.0. For those who updated their GCVideo devices, Extrems added four new optimized video configurations to try out. Custom-tailored presets (found in the “presets” folder from the downloaded […]
Shortly after last week’s announcement/release of the Raspberry Pi 4, questions were raised about the product’s backward compatibility with previous retro gaming related software and hardware released for the first 3 iterations of the RP. First, on the software side of things, Libretro, the team behind the multi-emulator frontend RetroArch, explained through a statement on […]
Thanks to feedback from other people who printed the original release, changes have been rolled out, mainly by increasing the perimeter. This should help with other slicers and printers where “thin wall detection” can not be enabled or wouldn’t act as intended. I never noticed this as an issue because my slicing program (slic3r for […]
Krikzz issued two long-awaited EverDrive OS updates tonight. The first was for the Mega EverDrive to restore the functionality of the Software Megakey (region-free patch) for X3-X5, a major feature that has been broken for almost two years. And he issued an update for the EverDrive 64, allowing for all four controller ports to function […]
In the world of MiSTer there were new cores released this week, core updates, and more. SmokeMonster MiSTer Pack List v2.0 ReleasedDatabase: https://github.com/SmokeMonsterPacks/EverDrive-Packs-Lists-DatabaseRelease Notes: https://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?101715-EverDrive-Packs-Release-Thread&p=1934764#post1934764 New Arcade Core: Jousthttps://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Joust_MiSTer/ New Arcade Core: Stargate (AKA Defender II)https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Stargate_MiSTer New Arcade Core: Robotron 2084https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Robotron_MiSTer/ New Arcade Core: Bubbleshttps://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Bubbles_MiSTer/ New Arcade Core: Splathttps://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade-Splat_MiSTer/ New core coming soon: Odyssey2https://github.com/Kitrinx/Odyssey2_MiSTer SNES […]
This week saw another big round of MiSTer core updates primarily focused on fixing bugs and moving to the new open-source scaler by Grabulosaure. The new scaler uses 10% of the resources of the old scaler, is easy and faster to compile using the free Quartus software (instead of the $5,000/year suite required for the […]
