Bob

Scanline City Custom Arcade Board Cases

A new company called Scanline City are now creating dual-layer plexi + metal cases, designed to protect, display and use your arcade boards.  They started with the Mortal Kombat quadrilogy, but will soon be moving on to cases from Capcom, Konami and many others.  The above video is a trimmed-down version of the livestream we […]

Rany Battikh

SNES-2-3DO controller adapter

Engineer Robert Dale Smith has just released a controller adapter that accepts Super Nintendo/Super Famicom controllers and converts their signal for use on a 3DO console; he’s calling it the SNES-2-3DO:  https://retrorgb.link/snes23do Before getting into the adapter itself, I should first mention that there were at least one functionally similar 3rd party adapter (e.g 3D-Zero Super […]

Bob

New Round of GBA Consolizer Pre-Orders

Game-Tech has just opened a new round of pre-orders for Woozle’s Game Boy Advance Consolizer (GBAz) kits.  The options include a new case, as well a an updated “facehugger” option for people who want to retain the functionality of the original buttons and d-pad (but not the original screen).  Kits are being shipped to Game-tech […]

Bob

Interview with Stefany Allaire

I recently had the opportunity to do an interview with developer Stefany Allaire, the creator of some pretty unique products like the C256 Foenix Gen X and the FPGA YM2612 replacement.  I’m really interested in her vision of a “new retro” platform and am curious to see how the project evolves!  This discussion is a […]

Bob

AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K Review

Here’s a review of the AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K (GC573) PCIe capture card, from the perspective of a retro gamer.  Overall, it performs okay and can accept fully uncompressed (4:4:4) colorspace from 1080p60 and 4K60 sources, but it has some limitations for doing things like side-by-side comparisons.  Also, while it does work with the OSSC and […]

Bob

Weekly Roundup #263

Here’s this week’s roundup, available as a video, as well as audio-only on iTunes, Google, Stitcher, Spotify and many others as well as direct-download: If you enjoy these videos, please consider supporting this channel via monthly support services, tips, or even just by using our affiliate links to purchase things you were already going to […]

Bob

Arcade1Up Simpsons Arcade Machine

Arcade1Up has just announced they’ll be opening pre-orders for their version of The Simpson’s arcade machine on August 16th.  No price has been officially announced, but it’s expected to sell for the same price as its other larger-sized cabinets $650.  This is a larger cabinet then their standard 2-player cabs, but still not a 1:1 […]

ChrisFratz

Steam Deck Announced

Valve has just recently announced and opened pre-order reservations for their new Steam Deck handheld PC. A handheld PC running a custom AMD APU with 4 cores and 8 threads on the CPU side. On the GUP side it’s based on an AMD RDNA2 architecture with 8 compute units. It also has 3 version you […]

Bob

Neo SD Loader MicroSD Version Pre-Orders

Phenom Mod is now accepting pre-orders on a batch of Furrtek’s recently-open sourced Neo SD Loaders.  Phenom Mod is specifically making the version with a MicroSD card extension that fits in the console’s vent holes, allowing you to add this optical drive emulator, while still keeping the original disc drive. Pre-order Link:  https://store.phenommod.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=64&product_id=64 Support Furrtek:  https://www.patreon.com/furrtek I […]