Multiple news sources are reporting. With Sega showing off via a stream and on twitter the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) “Tower of Power”. The famed saying used to describe a complete Sega Mega Drive Model 1 setup with the Sega CD Model 1 and Sega 32X. The complete setup looked like a tower with console […]
I was asked to create a printable riser for the Genesis Model 2, the originals are getting expensive and hard to find. I set out to port the risers to as may Genesis systems as possible, releasing the Model 3 riser first. The Genesis Model 2 riser proved to be more difficult to model and […]
I was given the opportunity to revisit the GCPlug project. HDMyCUBE on twitter took the original project and the high quality plug from Insurrection Industries to make the ultimate version of the open source plug and play solution for GCVideo. Files can be downloaded here: http://www.retrorgb.com/assets/3dprint/GCPlug2.0Case2019-06-07.zip My case will require 4 screws, M2x8mm thread forming or tapping […]
Brian from RetroUSB has just posted his plans for a new AVS firmware. This is (as far as I can remember) the first firmware update in years for the AVS and is bringing some new features: PAL Compatibility fixes Palette update capability through the scoreboard app I reviewed the AVS when it was released and always […]
Here’s some extremely startling news that affects all users of mnemo’s USB-GDROM (Dreamcast *ODE) and USB Host (3DO *ODE) products: The firmware will eventually “expire” and the device will be bricked. Seriously. This was first posted by Dreamcast fan @pcwzrd13 last August while watching a live stream from William Nash (I apologize that it took so long to […]
Hyperkin revealed their upcoming budget clone of the Nintendo 64. ModernVintageGamer compared their previews with emulators and found that it’s based on Mupen64, an open-source software based emulator that has been around the block for a long time. Mupen64 runs on pretty much every platform under the sun already (phones, computers, etc), so you can […]
The Genesis Fight Engine is a Brazilian homebrew project creating a new from-scratch fighting game engine for the Sega Genesis (similar to M.U.G.E.N.). It has been chugging along for years, starting with a very rough sketch of the idea, but it has been progressing along nicely, and the new videos by Master Martial Arts show […]
srg320 has written an FPGA soft-core for the Sega SVP chip for MiSTer’s Genesis core, to support Virtua Racing. This is the first-ever FPGA SVP implementation. Retro Nation posted a video of it in action in the video above.
Several outlets are reporting Sega’s announcement today that an exclusive new arcade port of Darius will be included with their upcoming Mega Drive Mini. Kotaku noted that the port bares a striking resemblance to a fan project by indie dev Hidecade. References to the project were taken offline by Hidekade recently, possibly coinciding with the […]
Jacob Proctor has released an open-source PCB schematic for a Playstation 1, 2, and 3 audio-video breakout board. It supports RGBS, Component, Composite, S-video, stereo audio, and obviously is zero lag. Users can decide if they’d like to use RCA or BNC jacks, or a VGA breakout (like MiSTer’s IO Board), and it can do […]
