Blunt opinion (Bob’s, not the RetroRGB team): Based on how it’s marketed, it’s hard to take the original mCable seriously. It, in fact, performs exactly as advertised and the gaming edition doesn’t add any lag that could possible effect gameplay (video proof below). By Marseille Inc themselves’ own information, people should realize it’s a cable that doesn’t […]
A developer who goes under the screen name Coin feeder on the arcade-projects forums has recently revealed that he is developing a new “tate” style shmup game for the Neo Geo MVS. I had the opportunity to video chat with him, and during our conversation he demonstrated a very early version of this new game running […]
Over two decades after its releases in Japan and Europe, the Genesis version of Mega Man: The Wily Wars will finally see a physical release in North America courtesy of Retro-Bit. The game, which is a compilation of the first three NES Mega Man games souped up with 16-bit graphics, only saw a limited software […]
Wrestling With Gaming has just uploaded a video talking about “The Glove” – A device that looks similar to the infamous Power Glove, but performs much differently. While the video is shorter than other WWG videos, it’s still a thorough overview of both the PlayStation and N64 version of the controller. Overall, it seemed like […]
Intellivision has recently revealed a new trailer for their upcoming Amico system at Gamescom 2019 in Germany. The “Amico”, announced over a year ago and set for an October 2020 release, is a family-friendly gaming system that is set on bringing back casual gaming by reviving old IPs from the 80s and 90s. In this […]
Xilinx revealed their new high-end FPGA, the Virtex VU19P, which will be the largest FPGA ever created. It comes from their line of 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs and contains 35 billion transistors. It boasts the highest logic density and the input/output count (2,072) of any single device ever made, and is 1.6X larger than the Virtex […]
Watch GearSplaining 27: Geeking out, gaming style w/ thegirlg33k! from GearSplaining on www.twitch.tv thegirlg33k was recently a guest on the GearSplaining podcast to talk about video game audio hardware. She covered everything from old computers, to different arcade boards, to game consoles ranging from the Atari 2600 to SNES. The discussion was filled with audio […]
The Neo Geo Pocket Color just got a high quality replacement LCD that looks amazing and is a zero effort mod, just unplug the old screen and plug in the new screen and its circuit board to get going. The only problem is that the new LCD isn’t the same size as the original, its […]
EDIT: Post revised on 08/23 & 8/25. An eBay seller recently listed a MiSTer RAM module and many people felt the title and description was misleading. First, the seller listed a 32MB (256MBIT) RAM module as “256mb”. While technically, that’s the truth (and depending what field of work you’re in, you might call it the […]
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