I just watched the documentary “Not For Resale” (trailer above), which highlights retro video game stores, the people who run them and how the switch from physical to digital media is affecting them. The documentary has a strong focus on what the death pf physical media means for us as gamers. While digital distribution has […]
Modern Vintage Gamer just posted a video that includes a pretty cool bonus: An unreleased PS1 game based on the light cycle scene from Tron! The main video is about the $750 Net Yaroze “official homebrew” development kit for the original PlayStation. Basically, Sony wanted to create a homebrew game scene on the PS1 and […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-02-26_190.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb / https://www.subscribestar.com/robertneal / […]
Krikzz has just released the updated version of his Everdrive ROM cart for the Sega Game Gear: https://everdrive.me/cartridges/everdrive-gg-x7.html The x7 offers quite a few upgrades over the original, including save states, in-game menu and instant loading! Here’s the full list of features: Max ROM size: 4MByte Max SAVE RAM size: 32KByte Save States function and In-Game […]
Here’s a review of the Koryuu Transcoder, a device that converts Composite and S-Video to YPbPr Component video. The device is brand new and the developer has spoken about potentially adding some interesting updates in future firmware versions. Here’s a video that demo’s it’s main features, available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute (below). Links […]
A “pop-up” book was just released that celebrates some of the “body sensation” arcade machines from Sega; Games that aimed to give players a more immersive experience than just standing in front of a wooden cabinet and playing with a stick + buttons. The games featured in the book are: Hang-On, Space Harrier, Out Run, After […]
Displaced Gamers recently posted an excellent video that explains chroma – Or, essentially how colors are created with analog video signals. The video starts out by breaking down analog video formats and demonstrating how the signals are generated. I love the examples they used of oscilloscope captures shown over 100% color bars! This is one […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2020-02-19_189.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb / https://www.subscribestar.com/robertneal / […]
Modern Vintage Gamer has just released a follow-up to his excellent video that explained how Game Boy Graphics work, this time concentrating on the GBA. As with all MVG videos, he does a great job presenting the information in a way that will satisfy most techincal experts, without alienating his less-technical viewers. Without spoiling too […]
Here’s an early look at the upcoming “Satiator” Optical Drive Emulator for the Sega Saturn made by Professor Abrasive. It’s a plug-and-play device that allows you to boot CD images without modding your console at all. Even though the project is still only in beta, I was very impressed at the performance! Check it out […]
