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Insurrection Industries’ CARBY Now Available For Pre-Order

  UPDATE:  Available now – https://insurrectionindustries.com/product/carby/ Insurrection Industries has just opened pre-orders on their “CARBY” GCVideo HDMI solution.  The price is $75 and includes free shipping, as well as an HDMI cable and remote control.  Expected shipping date is September 28th. Look for reviews soon, but the CARBY certainly looks promising…especially at that price! CARBY is […]

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Height-Def NES No Cut Mod

Greg Collins has just published his 3D design for a “no-cut” Hi-Def NES installation for a top-loading Famicom or NES!  Installation instructions, 3D print files and pictures are all available here* (a huge thanks to Greg for writing up the instructions!):  http://retrorgb.com/height-defnes.html If you’d like to purchase one pre-printed, Game-tech will be offering them soon!  Here’s […]

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Alternative 3DO 240p Mod Found?

Taijigamer2 is continuing his research into the 3DO console and may have found an alternative to the 240p/480i switch mod for consoles with the BT9103 chip that doesn’t require lifting any pins: “The service manual shows that PAL 3DO have a resistor bridging the Interlace signal between CLIO and BT9103. By removing that resistor and soldering […]

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8BitDo’s DIY Kit Reviewed

Andrew Liszewski just posted his review of 8BitDo’s DIY kit.  Overall, it’s exactly as to be expected:  https://gizmodo.com/it-really-was-easy-to-make-my-old-snes-controller-wirel-1828523571 My only opinion on this is that I’d feel strange replacing the guts of my original SNES controller with this.  I’m sure most classic console lovers like myself would preserve the original board, should we ever decide […]