Hello, I’m ChrisFratz. But you can call me Chris. When it comes to retro gaming, I personally love emulating a lot. Along with modern ports and remasters I think it’s one of the most important things in retro gaming as it’s one of the most accessible ways to play these old games.
If you wanna here what I have to say about other kinds of things you can follow me on my twitter, though what I say on there are my thoughts alone.
On the 3rd of June, Twitter user Dario revealed that his path tracing renderer that powered his ray tracing mod for Mario 64 (which was covered here in the past) named RT64 is being turned into a graphics plugin for N64 emulators. As you can see in the tweet above, he released a demo video […]
On February 10th, 2022, Nightdive Studios released a new remaster of the Sega Saturn and PS1 version of PowerSlave. PowerSlave was originally released back in 1996 for the PC, Sega Saturn, and PS1 and was developed by Lobotomy Software. And while the PC version has been available for years on stores like Steam and GOG, […]
A YouTube user named The Brickster has recently uploaded a full remastering of the soundtrack to Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver on to YouTube. This remaster came from a user named Kurausukun with The Brickster having permission to host the remaster on his channel. This soundtrack remastering is different to most of the work present on […]
It’s that time again, YouTube user RedHotSonic has just uploaded the trailer for the 2021 Sonic Hacking Contest. And in case you don’t know, the Sonic Hacking Contest (SHC) is a a week long event where people can submit ROM hacks and mods for sonic games that people can download and play. Not only […]
On December 10th, 2020, Cyan released a new remake of the classic 1993 adventure game Myst exclusively for the Oculus Quest platform. So why am I writing about it now? Because on August 26th, 2021, the game was released on PC with optional VR support through Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG.com, and Xbox Game […]
A couple months ago, the YouTube channel Nerrel uploaded a video summarizing a few of the advancements that have been made in the emulation scene. While covering things that have written posts about here in the past like the widescreen hack for Super Mario World, the Messen HD packs, and the SA-1 enhancement hacks from […]
Valve has just recently announced and opened pre-order reservations for their new Steam Deck handheld PC. A handheld PC running a custom AMD APU with 4 cores and 8 threads on the CPU side. On the GUP side it’s based on an AMD RDNA2 architecture with 8 compute units. It also has 3 version you […]
A new DF Retro video series on the launch of the PlayStation 1 recently had its final part uploaded. The series goes over the launch of the PS1 in all 3 territories. Part 1 covers the PS1 launch in Japan, part 2 covers the launch in North America, and part 3 covers the launch in […]
Well, E3 came and went this year and while mostly being focused on new upcoming game like the new Halo or Battlefield, Limited Run Games also gave some old games the spotlight with new physical releases of retro game compilations, like a physical Castlevania Requiem and the Contra Anniversary Collection, and even a re-releases […]
343 Industries, the developers of Halo: The Master Chief Collection (MCC) have released (and concluded while writing this) the flight of their new season 7 content update to the collection where they’re testing out some of the new stuff. And one of the big things that is getting tested is the restoration of the graphics […]
