Engineer Robert Dale Smith, creator of the SNES-2-3DO, has just released the design files of a plastic mount used to firmly hold in place an ODE, specifically inside of a Panasonic 3DO FZ-1 console. This mount was originally designed to perfectly fit MNEMO’s ODE, but according to Robert, it should also work fine with Fixel’s […]
As many of you typically know, VMUs, while a cool concept of memory card, have a couple of problems. The biggest (Or not biggest depending how you look at it) issue are many of them not having a large storage size. Games like Half-Life for example will take up your entire VMU to save, causing […]
Alpha Mission Beta Core RndMNKIII released a beta core for the arcade game Alpha Mission. There are still other things left to be implemented and there are some graphical glitches. The developer asks any bugs to be reported to the project’s GitHub. Github: https://github.com/RndMnkIII/AlphaMission_Beta_MiSTer_bin Twitter post: https://twitter.com/RndMnkIII/status/1521814075163959297 Misterfpga.org post: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=4658&sid=f85d99ee679f6d8ceeee83e7051a4eca PSX Core Update Here […]
Here’s an interview with Sam Miller, the musician who’s been restoring / reverse engineering Super Nintendo soundtracks. Sam’s accomplishing this by tracking down the original samples used to create the music you hear from the original game and re-creating the soundtracks with the original samples. This is awesome for so many reasons and I hope […]
Retro Game Repair Shop has recently opened pre-orders for the Slate. The Slate is a machined metal shell for the Game Boy Advance SP that changes the consoles original flip-open form factor to a more candy bar style reminiscent of the older Game Boy consoles such as the DMG, Color, and Pocket. I built up […]
The team behind the amazing Sega 32x restoration of Doom has just released an update with some interesting new features! There’s unique features like the ability to play against another person with a full 32x setup via the Zero Tolerance Link Cable, which links two consoles together via the second controller port. There’s also more […]
Terraonion has just released a firmware update for their Sega Genesis & Mega Drive ROM Cart / ODE. There’s a few bugfixes and a new feature: The ability to have CD audio added to 32x games. This will not require the MSDEXP adapter, as it’s not emulating a 32xCD game and instead using their MD+ […]
Ian, aka Historical Nerd just released a video about how Atari created a tank simulator for the US military. There’s other similar stories out there, like with a Sega-made war trainer, but a few things really stood out about this story (and Ian’s excellent visuals!). First, I had no idea the controls in this simulator […]
Today is May 5th, 2022 – and 30 years ago today, id Software unleashed their second major release (after Commander Keen, of course) on an unsuspecting world, in the form of the Wolfenstein 3D shareware episode uploaded to the infamous Software Creations BBS, allegedly at 4AM after pulling an all-nighter squashing last minute bugs. Little […]
Dale Whinham – perhaps better known as d0pefish, the creator of mt32-pi, has launched a shop over on Ko-Fi selling the first official hardware based around the project. If you’re not already familiar, mt32-pi is an open source project which emulates the Roland MT-32 and other MIDI devices using a Raspberry Pi, and can be […]
