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The Making Of The Game Boy

Yahel from Wrestling With Gaming has just released another excellent documentary, this time about the creation of the iconic Nintendo Game Boy.  This documentary covers it’s roots in the Game & Watch, but also how it was almost cancelled, how a bad relationship with a screen manufacturer may have lead to the creation of competition […]

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Polymega GameSack 2024 Review

Six years after opening initial pre-orders, Polymega’s are now in-stock and ready to ship.  With the same processor and RAM that it was announced with in 2018 ;/  Joe from GameSack just posted a full review of the unit, including the Genesis, SNES, N64 and PCE cartridge modules and controllers.  While the console performed okay, it […]

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Weekly Roundup #403

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MiSTer FPGA News – DOS Games as Screensavers, Saturn, Galaga 88, Toki & More

Super Attract Mode Super Attract Mode, the script that can load random games while your MiSTer is idle acting like an attract screen, has now added support for DOS games via the 0MHz DOS collection. Giving you more variety in the tpyes of games being loaded. Post : https://twitter.com/chrisshelms/status/1772367570835779704 Super Attract Mode GitHub : https://github.com/mrchrisster/MiSTer_SAM   TapTo […]

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SCART Cleaner v2.0 Released

The second version of the SCART Cleaner is now available for purchase.  I did a long livestream demoing it, but here’s a very quick summary:  If you’re looking to connect RGB SCART cables from classic video game consoles into Datapath Vision capture cards, NEC monitors (like the XM29), or Extron equipment, this may be the perfect […]

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Weekly Roundup #402

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Homebrew GameCube Ethernet Adapters

Tito from Macho Nacho Productions just posted a video showcasing the ‘ETH2GC’ – A homebrew ethernet adapter for the Nintendo GameCube designed by Extrems and Webhdx.  This adapter uses Swiss to trick the GameCube into thinking the ETH2GC is an official Broadband adapter, allowing net and LAN play on the much cheaper devices;  The ‘Sidecar’ […]