Looking for some light reading material about your favorite 32-bit console? A new fan-made coffee table book has you covered. “The Unofficial Sega Saturn Collection” is a 290-page paperback that released on Amazon earlier this month. It features large color screenshots of some of the games in the Saturn’s library along with writeups about each […]
Norman Caruso, aka The Gaming Historian recently released a documentary about the iconic game: The Oregon Trail. The hour-plus long video includes extensive interviews from the original creators, as well as the team that made it into the game most of us remember. If you’ve ever played this game in your school’s computer lab as […]
Ryan of Archades Games recently posted a “Motion Adaptive Deinterlacing Shootout” between the RetroTINK 4K, RetroTINK 5x and PixelFX Morph. It’s a great look into where each scaler is with 480i support at the moment and should give customers a fair idea of what to expect if they purchase any of the three. That said, […]
Developer Rumbleminze recently released another NES to SNES conversion, this time for the game Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers. There’s also an MSU-1 version, however not all tracks are available; It will default to the original soundtrack via Memblers audio emulator for the rest. I did a livestream of it above if you’d like to […]
FunnyPlaying has recently released a replacement Game Boy Advance motherboard. However, this isn’t just a one-for-one replacement, FunnyPlaying actually integrated a few upgrades. Now one of the cool things about this board is that it is made of all new components. Even parts that are unique to the console are brand new, such as the […]
The Saturn core for the MiSTer FPGA hit a milestone late last month when it committed the last several months of “unstable nightly” updates to the MiSTer’s main branch. The March 23 update was the first one to the core’s main branch since it was first added there in October. When a core’s update is […]
Darksoft has just announced some updates on his Neo Geo multi-cart project. First, it looks like no more AES versions will be made at all. Next, he’s considering making one last round of MVS multi’s, but needs to sell at least 75 for it to be feasible. If you own an original Neo Geo MVS […]
Greg from Laser Bear just opened pre-orders on the “Slotmaster” 72-pin replacement for front-loading NES consoles: An open source project from Merlin Shaw, that replaces both the 72-pin connector and plastic tray. After installing, your games will slide directly into a brand new 72-pin connector with no need to push down the cartridge. The price […]
Modern Vintage Gamer recently posted a video highlighting the Pretendo service: An online network that allows hacked 3DS & Wii U consoles (as well as emulators) to connect to it, as if it were the official Nintendo network. With the Wii U and 3DS online network officially shut down, this is now the only option for […]
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