A book was just released, about coding for the original Game Boy using assembly. The goal of the book is for readers to learn real systems programming: Assembly language, memory management, interrupts, etc, by building games on actual Game Boy hardware. The book isn’t cheap, at $35 for the Kindle edition and $50 for the […]
A Kickstarter campaign was just funded, for a book from Obsolete Sony. This book covers Sony’s “personal audio devices”, from the Walkman, up to the MiniDiscs and Hi-Res players. It’s filled with tons of pictures and writeups on all of them. If you’d like to back the project, an eBook is about $15, a physical copy […]
The unreleased sequel to the Virtual Boy game Virtual League Baseball has just been acquired from a former game tester and dumped! It’s now available to download, but please consider supporting the “fundraiser”, as even though the game is now out there, only a tiny percentage of what was spent to get the game has […]
The fan who’s spent most of this year porting futuristic racer wipEout to the Dreamcast declared it complete with the version released last Sunday. Jnmartin84 uploaded “v2 final” to his GitHub where a TGZ file containing a playable CDI file and some cover art can be downloaded. “This is the final release for v2. It […]
Sega Saturn & STV New updates have been implemented to the Sega Saturn and ST-V cores. There are many fixes to different parts of the Saturn that affected many games. There’s an Add/fix MRAs (Zakk) Improved horizontal/vertical crop (kuba-j) Implement SAV file mounting (Zakk) Some games affected by this update include: Greatest Nine ’98 NBA […]
I just reviewed a basic, sub-$40 HDMI 2.1 switch, that’s MiSTer compatible – both in low-latency and Direct Video modes – as well as the OSSC, RetroTINK 4K and more. It’s unfortunately not PS3-compatible, however it seemed to pass CEC control, which is a cool bonus. If you were looking for a cheap switch for both retro […]
Zophar has just posted an interview with legendary Super Nintendo emulator ZSNES’ creator zsKnight. This is an absolute MUST-WATCH for anyone who grew up using ZSNES in the 90’s and it was very cool finally hearing from the original dev! And even if this was before your time, this is a glimpse into retro-emulation that […]
I just did a livestream testing the new 26″, 4:3, 1440×1080 LCD IPS display from Arcooda (I’ll be testing the 4K version soon as well). This was specifically designed as an arcade monitor replacement, that with a $15 adapter, can be wired directly into existing cabs. No scaler, no supergun, no re-wiring the control panel […]
The Sega Guys have released a few videos about the differences between the Game Gear and Sega Master System Sonic The Hedgehog games. These were widely thought to be the same game with just some small changes to compensate for the smaller screen size and larger color palette of the GG. If you ever played […]
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