Furrtek has posted more details about the upcoming Neo SD Loader project. As if we weren’t excited enough already… First, pictures of the near-final boards have been posted (shown above) and look great! He’s still trying to determine the best location for people who’d like to keep both CD & SD support, but it’s possible […]
Rattboi and Technobly have designed a new open-source Vectrex Flash Cart called the Vextreme, based on Spritesmod’s Vectrex Extreme flash cart, which was generously open-sourced by Spritesmod (GPL3). The PCB design was largely based on pictures posted at Spritesmod, but with a retooled firmware and boot ROM that are easier to build. The cart has […]
Developer Matthew Kiehl has recently shown off his latest update for “Intellivania”, his port of Castlevania on Intellivision. There’s no current ETA for when it will be finished, however the intention is to release it on physical media. I had the pleasure of seeing this game in person at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo and […]
New Super Mario Land stands as a high water mark of homebrew coding–a masterpiece for the ages. A 16-bit re-imagining of the classic Game Boy Super Mario Land for the Super Nintendo by a legendary scene coder. Although after hours of gameplay, the characters’ “woohoo!” jumping sound effect can become repetitive, so many requested a […]
YouTube user マツケん/ MatsukeN recently posted a video comparing how very different each NES/Famicom console outputs audio. Now, of course, there’s a lof of things that factor into this comparison. What version of the motherboard was in each? Were they original capacitors, or was a full cap replacement done on each console? What’s the quality of […]
While the work done at RetroRGB is centered around video games, we’re essentially a “technology” site focused on gaming. As a result, we’re constantly running into deep technical issues and very often that includes getting older computer hardware to work on newer equipment and operating systems. One common issue: Drivers. Developer Ben Cox ran into […]
Emulicious, the GB, GBC, SMS and GG emulator has just had its second major update this year. This emulator is popular with developers for it’s debugging features and full control of the games. This update features SMS FM Sound support, as well as tabs in the memory editor: For the Master System and Game Gear […]
Sega CD comes to MiSTer care of Srg320, author of the Super Nintendo Core and its special chips (CX4, DSP1-4, OBC-1, SA-1, S-DD1, SPC7110, S-RTC, ST010, Super FX/GSU), as well as Virtua Racing’s SVP chip for the Sega Genesis. The Sega CD core is very solid for a first release. All 150 official releases have […]
The Swiss team of Extrems and emukidid just released a significant update for the now-indispensable Gamecube tool. This time around Extrems focused on fixing games that showed to be troublesome on previous versions of Swiss, especially when running off an SD card (New adopters of Citrus 3000psi‘s SD2SP2 should hugely benefit from this update) . […]
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