SaturnDave (Sega Saturn, SHIRO!)

‘DEVASTAR’ Open Source IR Light Gun Project

A new Open Source IR Light Gun project by Greg Gallardo called ‘Devastar‘, is in the works and looks to support numerous consoles. While the project apparently got it’s start back in 2019 and has remained pretty quiet despite steady progress, it’s now caught our attention as just a few months ago, Greg decided to […]

Crystal

Last Armageddon Vinyl Soundtrack Pre-Order

P-Vine Records have launched a pre-order for the vinyl release of Last Armageddon soundtrack composed by Koji Hayama, released for NEC PC-8801 and later for X68000. This release comes on a single black LP, priced at ~¥4000[~$30.33], $55.00 CAD and €36,00. Scheduled release is June – July 2023. (EU) Black Screen Records: https://blackscreenrecords.com/products/all-sounds-of-last-armageddon (CA) Very […]

Bob

Weekly Roundup #336

Here’s this week’s roundup, sponsored by JLCPCB! Spend only $2 for 5pcs 1-4 layer PCBs ; PCBA from $0:  https://jlcpcb.com/DRE The Roundup is available as a video and on all audio-only podcast services, such as iTunes, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, Amazon Music and direct-download:  https://anchor.fm/retrorgb If you enjoy these videos, please consider supporting this channel via monthly […]

Bob

Dolby Pro Logic on Modern Receivers

Did you know, some stereo recordings (just the red and white audio cables) actually had surround sound tracks hidden inside them?  And that all you need to access them, is a compatible receiver?  The above video and instructions below will help your test to see if your receiver is compatible and explain how to access […]

Lu

MiSTer FPGA News – Atari Jaguar, New Cores, S-Video Adapters for Sale & More

Atari Jaguar There’s another Jaguar core in development by Jotego and it is currently undergoing testing by atrac17. It was also hinted that CD support will be available as long as the Jaguar Game Drive also supports it. Post 1 : https://twitter.com/_atrac17/status/1505959812865089539 Post 2 : https://twitter.com/theLMTTN/status/1505971879286349828 Jotego Twitter: https://twitter.com/topapate Jotego Github: https://github.com/jotego/jtbin Jotego support page: https://www.patreon.com/jotego   Playstation Core Robert […]

DisplacedGamers

How Speedrunners BROKE Castlevania’s Scrolling – Behind the Code

In December of 2019 after many years of runs, the speedrunning record for Castlevania on the NES was close to 11 minutes 24 seconds. In Summer of 2020, speedrunners took a new discovery for the implementation of scrolling for the game and used it to skip several screens at a time in various places throughout […]