8bitmods.com just sent me a Fenrir Optical Drive Emulator for the Sega Saturn and I was able to put it through it’s paces. Overall, it seems to be a good replacement for your Saturn’s optical drive, but there’s a few important things to keep in mind: It’s only compatible with 20-pin Saturns. Most model 1’s […]
An English fan-translation has been released for experimental cult-classic “LSD: Dream Emulator”. Originally sold in 1998 for the Playstation, LSD has remained a Japanese exclusive even after its re-release on the Playstation Network in 2010. A bizarre curio for collectors and importers, LSD could be described broadly as an early entry in the “Walking Simulator” […]
Handhled modder and innovator Benn Venn just opened pre-orders for his newly designed romcart, the ElCheapoSD Lynx. This Atari Lynx micro-SD based cart, follows Benn’s ElCheapoSD line of products‘ norm with its simplistic yet decently-featured nature and, as the name implies, its affordability. The ElCheapoSD Lynx will easily fit into both revisions of Atari’s cult […]
John Linneman recently uploaded a series of videos dedicated to the newly released Streets Of Rage 4. The first (above) starts out as a series retrospective and goes over all the things that made the first three the classics they’ve become. For anyone unfamiliar with the series, or someone that wants a “refresher course”, this […]
My Life in Gaming creators Coury Carlson and Marc Duddleson have released a new video that discusses first-party controller designs from the fifth and sixth generation of home consoles (1993-2006). My Life in Gaming is a YouTube channel known for producing high-quality content that explores topics ranging from maximizing the fidelity of your retro gaming experience, to […]
Woozle64, a developer responsible for the excellent GBA Consolizer, has teased the development of a similar modification that enables HDMI output from a Nintendo DS. Making good progress on the DS Consolizer. pic.twitter.com/pdU6KSTUnu — Stephen (@Woozle64) April 27, 2020 Consolization is a colloquial term for a mod that converts a portable game system in to something […]
It looks like CastleMania Games is now taking pre-orders on the citrus3000psi-designed kit that allows you to install a digital output port, in place of the analog port on your model 101 GameCube: https://bit.ly/dol101digitalkit This kit will require you to remove the analog output “SNES style” jack and mount this copy of the digital-out port […]
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=2020-04-29_199.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 T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All […]
It looks like the RetroPie team has just uploaded an “official beta” image of their Raspberry Pi emulation frontend that supports the Raspberry Pi 4: https://retropie.org.uk/2020/04/retropie-4-6-released-with-raspberry-pi-4-support/ This is a cool addition to RetroPie, as most software frontends were struggling to support the RPi4 and while you could manually install retropie on it for the past few […]
The Swiss team has been continuing their work on ‘the Swiss army knife of GameCube tools’, adding another very long list of features and tweaks to this already awesome software. The first thing people might notice when using this newer version is a skin change, with a slightly changed look. Personally, I really like it! […]
