During the last couple of years, the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive indie scene grew exponentially with more and more developers and small studios using the console as a base platform for their next title. Now this trend continues yet again, as Neofid Studios announced Astebros, an action roguelite spin-off to their 2021 release, Demons […]
I’ve always been a fan of using a Raspberry Pi as a dedicated MAME emulation device, however the last few years have been a bit awkward: The significantly faster RPi 4‘s weren’t compatible with all software OS/frontends and compatibility with analog output hardware varied. That’s all changed and my two favorite software frontends have just […]
Data-Discs have released Super Hang-On, OutRun and Space Harrier digitally on their Bandcamp page, joining their existing catalogue with soundtracks from Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3, and The Revenge of Shinobi. Bandcamp: https://datadiscs.bandcamp.com/ Price per album is £6 ( ~7€ / ~$8 )and offers streaming in MP3 as well as digital download in […]
Hey everyone, Try from My Life in Gaming here. We’ve been planning to do an episode that could serve as a primer on MiSTer for over a year now, but the reality of such a project was so daunting that it kept stalling after several starts (given how we just can’t help ourselves when it […]
Sony has just announced an updated version of their “PlayStation Plus” service. The basic tier is essentially the same as the current PlayStation Plus, with $5 more a month giving you access to 400 PS4 & 5 games and $3 more than that gets you the ability to try games for a limited period before […]
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In a community announcement today, March 28, 2022, hitomi2500 stated that WASCA (an aspiring “Swiss Army Knife” -type cart solution for Sega Saturn) would be migrating over to the much faster, modular (and perhaps more available) iCESugar-pro architecture, suggesting the possibility of a release for purchase perhaps some time later this year… The iCESugar-pro will […]
This week’s podcast is an open discussion about display lag, featuring Nick from HD Retrovision and Zach aka Voultar. We discussed some of the findings and questions left unanswered from my latest video “Mythbusting Display Lag”, which itself is a culmination of over ten years of testing. Hopefully we helped make things easier to understand, […]
Jotego Updates Get ready for some button mashing because Jotego has released a beta core for Hyper Sports to his Patreon subscribers. Developed by Konami, Hyper Sports was an Olympic sports arcade game from 1984. Players would compete in different events like swimming, Skeet shooting, archery and more. Jotego also fixed a bug in Forgotten […]
Here’s a video that tries to squash some myth’s many people have about display lag. This video covers the very basics that should apply to your average gamer (modern or retro), but doesn’t go too deep into special use case scenarios. I’ll have some follow-up videos and discussions that go in deeper, but this video […]
