By day, Sebastian Staacks is a trained Physicist. By night, he is a tinkerer, making cool gadgets and doing really cool projects, all of which are fully documented and open-sourced in his blog There Oughta Be. Recently, he delved into the world of retro gaming, sparked by finding his beloved childhood Game Boy in his […]
Over on the Sega Xtreme forums, a user by the name of Murzik recently posted about his efforts in translating the version of Ys 1 in the Falcom Classics I Collection on Saturn, eventually releasing a 0.1 alpha patch on 1/20/22: For those of you unaware, Ys 1 is a bump style RPG (Where […]
A prototype for an unreleased Atari Jaguar game called Speedster II was just posted online. It looks terrible…but as always, I’m fascinated whenever I see a glimpse of a game that “never was”. The video above shows it in action and Gaming Alexandria tell more of the story: More Info & Download: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2022/01/speedster-jag/ While this […]
Brian from RetroUSB has just released a new firmware for the FPGA-based NES console called the AVS. This is essentially the same exact firmware he posted over a year ago that allows the ability to load custom palettes, but with the Game Genie error fixed. Unfortunately, AVS units are severely affected by the global part […]
I was recently a guest on the Cathode Ray Podcast, where we tested an LCD PVM “live”. Unfortunately, they’re expensive, extremely laggy, only support 15KHz (so no 480p) and the LCD’s dark-to-bright speed is so slow, it should be used on Wikipedia as THE example of motion blur. Basically, if you get one for free, […]
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Controller manufacturer Hori is looking for suggestions on a potential new arcade stick they’ll be selling. We in the retro gaming community often ask for our voices to be heard and now a company is asking us directly! Let’s take the time to send them our feedback before the January 31st deadline and I’ll post […]
A YouTube user named The Brickster has recently uploaded a full remastering of the soundtrack to Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver on to YouTube. This remaster came from a user named Kurausukun with The Brickster having permission to host the remaster on his channel. This soundtrack remastering is different to most of the work present on […]
PC8801 Computer Core A computer core for the Japanese PC8801 computer by NEC has recently been released. This was one of Japan’s most popular computers that had a lot of game developer support from companies such as Sega, Enix, Square, Konami and many more. MiSTerFPGA update: https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?p=41052#p41052 Github: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PC88_MiSTer Using Original Game Boxes to Load […]
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Chris, the creator of the Displaced Gamers YouTube channel. Chris’ videos have been educating people on programming and retro gaming hardware for the last five years and have been a valuable source of information! Hopefully you’ll enjoy the interview and getting to know Chris a bit more! As […]
