Indie studio Tangram Games has opened a Kickstarter to fund a physical release of Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe for Game Boy Color & Game Boy through First Press Games. Just like the original Tobu Tobu Girl, the the Deluxe ROM will be made freely available through Itch.io and its source code will be on Github. Tobu […]
I spent several weeks completely rebuilding Project Peacock from scratch, and it’s finally ready. PP is a list of every shoot ’em up, or shooter-element game for the PC Engine platform (minus active indie): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, PC Engine CD (all variants), and Turbo Duo. Actively sold indie games are purposefully kept off the […]
GameHut has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to start a retro gaming streaming service called Antstream. At the moment, they have the licenses to over 2000 games across multiple platforms from Arcade games, to consoles and are continuing to make deals with other companies to get as many games as possible on their platform. They’re […]
Voultar has just posted a video that shows how to use his new adapter boards to create easier and safer SNES cartridge hacks. This is something that’s been important to many people in the retro-gaming world, as there’s many amazing language translation patches available that allow people to play games that would never normally be […]
Here’s this week’s roundup! Audio-only version, available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and wherever podcasts are heard: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2019-04-10_144.mp3
Displaced Gamers has just posted a great video that explains why you’d need to tune your TV to channel 95 or 96 instead of the normal 3 or 4 to allow a Famicom’s RF output to work. They also show an easy (and completely reversible) way to re-tune the Famicom’s RF output to work on […]
Kevin Mellott has just posted a few status updates regarding his “MultiBoy 32” Virtual Boy ROM/flash cart project. He’s received quotes and selected a board house for the initial prototype run of 10 carts. Unfortunately, these will be costly and he’s looking to secure funding for both this and the main project. At the moment, […]
Professor Abrasive has just posted an update about his Sega Saturn optical drive emulator. The beta hardware is in and finally built correctly by the manufacturer. Also, the cases are being finalized with the intent of production versions being SLA plastic; I’m assuming the beta’s will ship in a 3D printed case. Also, the focus now […]
Youtuber Alex Ball and a whole host of fellow youtubers and contributors put together an excellent documentary on the Japanese sound and music tech giant, Roland. This documentary style video named “Land of the Rising Sound”. Is an incredibly enjoyable retrospective, as the authors put forth a history of the company through uses of its […]
Ikari has just released new firmware for both the SD2SNES and SD2SNES Pro. Currently on v1.10.3, most changes since the last post have been fixes, which are always welcome! See below for the full list. As always, the latest version can be found here: https://sd2snes.de/blog/downloads [Mk2] Revert S-DD1 bitfile to earlier build which happens to less […]
