Retro Gaming is a funny thing, we’ve seen romhacks, homebrews, FPGAs and emulators, so you’d think we’d have exhausted all options by now. Turns out that’s not the case, because a new scene cropped up right under our noses: HD Graphics packs for NES games. That is to say, you take the original NES rom, […]
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The NES needs a clock in order to function. Both the CPU and PPU use clock cycles to perform their duties. These chips run at different speeds, but each speed is derived from the same source – a 21.47727 MHz crystal on the NES motherboard. How do these components work in tandem? This video dives […]
New arcade core: Cosmic Guerilla A new arcade core for the 1979 game Cosmic Guerilla has been released by developer Macro. Post : https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=71367#p71367 macro support page: https://ko-fi.com/macrofpga Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Furrtek posted a screenshot of the TMNT core that shows a CPU freeze feature of the core to help debug a sprite issue. Kick […]
I recently had a conversation with Hans Baier, a developer who’s created a framework that allows the MiSTer FPGA project to be ported to different hardware platforms. Hans is approaching this in a way that will NOT fork or fracture MiSTer, but instead embrace it’s current software. This work has the potential to increase both the […]
WebHDX, the creator of PicoBoot, is currently working on a new device that will allow you to connect a M.2 form-factor SATA SSD (not to be confused with an NVMe) to a Nintendo Gamecube’s Serial Port 1 (SP1). This device will essentially function the same as a SD2SP2 or SD Gecko device in that it […]
Here’s this week’s roundup, sponsored by JLCPCB! Spend only $2 for 5pcs 1-4 layer PCBs ; PCBA from $0: https://jlcpcb.com/DRE The Roundup is available as a video and on all audio-only podcast services, such as iTunes, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music and direct-download: https://anchor.fm/retrorgb If you enjoy these videos, please consider supporting this channel via monthly […]
MisTex Update The MiSTex project has recently showed off a video of Q-Bert running on an Artix 100T FPGA was. Hans, the developer, has also suggested using a Raspberry Pi Zero as the HPS due to its better software support. Also, a picture of the MiSTex cape attachment for FPGA boards on a DECA Board […]
Last week I got a chance to talk to N64 hardware hacker Konrad Beckmann. Konrad got attention last summer for his work on the “PicoCart64”, which was a very low cot N64 flash cart made mostly from a Raspberry Pi Pico. Konrad has since gone back to finish a previous project working on HDMI digital […]
GrimDoomer recently released a Beta version of a heavily updated and more streamlined version Open PS2 Loader (OPL). If you guessed PS2 you were correct. I now have fully working LBA48 support in ps2sdk which allows for HDDs > 2TB in size (up to 128 PB w/exFAT), and multi-partition support. Still lots of testing to […]
