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 […]
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Sega has announced the final batch of games being included with the upcoming Genesis Mini and they included some interesting choices, such as Tetris, which was never officially released on the Genesis! It also includes Monster World IV which was previously a Japan-only release! Overall, this console is looking to have the most potential of […]
The final Japan-exclusive Pokémon Mini game – Pichu Bros. Mini – has been translated by a team of dedicated fans. That means now the entire Pokemon Mini library can be played in English via an emulator or by using the DITTO mini flash cart. It’s my (Bob) personal opinion that language translations are an important […]
This is a Public Service Announcement (PSA) and warning to anyone interested in servicing, repairing, modifying or otherwise handling CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) Monitors. Video recently done by Perifractic on his Retro Recipes YouTube channel explains the dangers and safety precautions individuals need to take when performing or working around these devices. This video also features […]
A brand new Amiga ‘Shoot’em-Up'(Shmup) game called Reshoot·R has been released for the AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture) series of Amiga computers. This means owners of Amiga 1200, 4000, and the CD32 are able to play this game with no addon cards, and is developed to run on standard hardware setups. Two Megs of Fast-RAM is […]
The video above shows the first successful full sync of Crystal Glitchless, which is longer than any other published console verification on TASVideos by more than an hour. This was made possible by a combination of efforts from TASVideos members and Pokemon Speedrunners and has allowed MrWint’s Pokemon Crystal TAS to be verified on original hardware […]
Extrems has just updated the Game Boy Interface software to include a new “breakthrough discovery” in video rendering. For standard and speedrunning editions, the changes are as follows: Improved video rendering. Renamed oversample scaler to area. Changed default scaler to area. The “area scaler” is (for lack of an easier description) a way that helps present […]
Unseen aka Ingo Korb has just released an update to the GCVideo firmware. Version 2.4d corrects the remaining “chroma shift” bug and can be downloaded here: https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo/releases This fix should remove the need for people to use the “menu shift” trick described in a previous update. It’s my (Bob’s) personal opinion that if you don’t have […]
