After many delays, Sega has now officially joined the other companies who’ve been capitalizing on the retro gaming boom by releasing cheesy emulation boxes putting together a mini version of their classic console loaded with roms. The US / NA version can now be pre-ordered here for $80, with a targeted release date of September 20th: https://amzn.to/2HQHE2I Sega’s […]
Now available on Kickstarter is the brand new remix album of Amiga music inspired by the Amiga Power magazine. Amiga Power was a games magazine out of the United Kingdom from the early to mid 1990’s that was focused on just games for the Commodore Amiga home computer. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amigasquare/amiga-power-the-album-with-attitude This compilation of music is […]
The past recent months have seen some extensive and impressive fan-translations of games to different languages, including manuals and covers. This English translation of Ni no Kuni: The Jet-Black Mage” has been in the works since 2014 and is equally as impressive as the others! The original Japanese version of the game came with a […]
BennVenn has just announced on his Facebook page that the backlit LCD replacement kits for the Atari Lynx are now ready for production! At the moment, he’s just deciding between two designs: Solderless – no soldering, unscrew the old LCD and lamp, screw the new pcb and LCD in, insert the ribbon cable, done! Soldered […]
Renowned RGB cable manufacturer Retro Access recently introduced their latest line of cables entitled: Fortraflex. UPDATE BELOW AS OF APRIL 6TH… 2nd UPDATE AS OF APRIL 7TH – It’s “Fortraflex”, not Fortaflex. Spelling changed in-post, but please excuse the URL. 3rd UPDATE AS OF APRIL 22ND – Size is corrected and all Genesis models properly […]
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=2019-03-27_142.mp3
The Wall Street Journal has once again claimed that Nintendo will be launching an update to the Switch console this year. The latest rumor suggests that parts suppliers with access to a prototype have leaked information on not one, but two new versions of the switch. The first will supposedly have the vibration controls removed to save […]
Forest of Illusion has just released the source code to the infamous NES emulator called NESticle. Originally released in 1997, NESticle was one of the best NES emulators out there. In fact, it’s existence and features inspired many other emulation developments in the scene! The original (1990’s) acquisition of the code has a sad story to […]
Arthrimus on the Shmups forums has posted a SNES RGB board that also incorporates the dejitter mod. It’s always cool to see two mods combined for simplicity and this project aims to integrate a switchable version of Markus’ dejitter circuit along with the high quality video output of Borti’s SNES board. Arthrimus has tested a […]
The M30 2.4G by 8bitdo is a fantastic controller for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive that is proven to have low lag AND a low price. Unfortunately, many of the early units suffer from connection issues and unlike the M30 bluetooth edition, there is no obvious way to update the 2.4G receiver that comes bundled with […]
