Bitmap Bureau have recently opened pre-orders on a Nintendo 64 version of their game Xenocrisis. A complete-in-box cartridge version is around $60, but if you use a ROM Cart, you can get a ROM-only version for under $20. The carts are due to ship by the end of the month, with the roms being distributed […]
Cartridge Thunder has launched a pre-order for a vinyl version of the Virtua Fighter soundtrack composed by Takayuki Nakamura and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. Both the Arcade and Sega Saturn are included. It’s priced at $42/€48/¥9,350/CAD62/AUD90, with scheduled release being July 2023. (US) Cartridge Thunder: https://cartridgethunder.com/products/virtua-fighter-original-game-soundtrack (EU) Black Screen Records: https://blackscreenrecords.com/products/virtua-fighter (CA) Very Ok Vinyl: https://www.veryokvinyl.com/products/virtua-fighter-arcade-and-sega-saturn (US) […]
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Krikzz has just released a new firmware for the Turbo EverDrive Pro. This fixes an issue with Arcade Card emulation, as well as a palette issue. If you already purchased one, it’s always a good idea to keep your firmware up-to-date. More info below the links… Download the latest TEDPro Firmware: https://krikzz.com/pub/support/turbo-everdrive/pro-series/firmware/ Purchase Here: http://retrorgb.link/tedpro MicroSD Cards: https://www.amazon.com/shop/retrorgb?listId=2ZTMQP0SZ7GRK […]
MisTex Update The MiSTex project has recently showed off a video of Q-Bert running on an Artix 100T FPGA was. Hans, the developer, has also suggested using a Raspberry Pi Zero as the HPS due to its better software support. Also, a picture of the MiSTex cape attachment for FPGA boards on a DECA Board […]
Last week I got a chance to talk to N64 hardware hacker Konrad Beckmann. Konrad got attention last summer for his work on the “PicoCart64”, which was a very low cot N64 flash cart made mostly from a Raspberry Pi Pico. Konrad has since gone back to finish a previous project working on HDMI digital […]
GrimDoomer recently released a Beta version of a heavily updated and more streamlined version Open PS2 Loader (OPL). If you guessed PS2 you were correct. I now have fully working LBA48 support in ps2sdk which allows for HDDs > 2TB in size (up to 128 PB w/exFAT), and multi-partition support. Still lots of testing to […]
Fixel, the developer behind multiple optical drive and IDE emulation hardware has just opened an interest check list for some new PC-FX devices: Both an internal and external ODE, as well as a memory storage card – And that alone is a product most PC-FX users should be interested in, as the original PC-BMP’s sell […]
At CES 1987 Atari CEO Jack Tramiel unveiled his “Business Is War” philosophy, and how it was shaping the direction of the business he’d taken over in 1983. The founder of Commodore – a holocaust survivor and notoriously uncompromising businessman – had already been responsible for quite the turnaround at his old rival: in 4 […]
Here’s a review of the new Sega Dreamcast Component Video cables from Retro Gaming Cables. These use Mike Chi’s RetroTINK Transcoder technology to convert the native RGB and VGA outputs of the Dreamcast to YPbPr. The cables can switch between 480p / 31KHz modes and 15KHz mode (oddly labeled 576?), which outputs 240p and 480i. […]
