St1ka recently posted a video on an interesting series of games I never knew existed: The “Zook” series of Mega Man games. These games were originally created in China, as “bootlegs” of the Mega Man series and look really impressive. St1ka covered all three in this video: Zook Hero Z (GBC): https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Zook_Hero_Z Zook Hero 2 […]
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343 Industries, the developers of Halo: The Master Chief Collection (MCC) have released (and concluded while writing this) the flight of their new season 7 content update to the collection where they’re testing out some of the new stuff. And one of the big things that is getting tested is the restoration of the graphics […]
Last Friday (21 May 2021) Ian Ford also known as the H0ffman reported on his blog/Twitter. That he had released the long anticipated port of the MSX2 classic Metal Gear for the Commodore Amiga. The H0ffman well known for his work in the Amiga community with his coding, music and amazing DJ’ing skills. Announced in […]
Tube Time has announced via their Twitter feed the availability of a new, open source graphics card for PC compatible computers with an 8-bit ISA BUS, named “Graphics Gremlin”. i'm happy to announce the release of my latest project, the Graphics Gremlin! it is an 8-bit retro video card for ISA bus computers, and it […]
There’s a new firmware available for the XStation optical drive emulator that now offers an option to sort by subfolders. In the example showed above, I had all my ISO’s sorted into directories by letter, however the previous firmware listed them as if they were all on the root of the MicroSD. This was still […]
Retro Game Restore has just opened pre-orders on a smoke transparent version of their Super Nintendo shell. This is different than the shell that is currently in production, as that was completely clear, while this one is “smoke”. A minimum order of 500 is required and if sales don’t reach that number, a full refund […]
Today, I’m joined by René from db Electronics, Tianfeng and Rattboi to discuss the implementations and uses of open source hardware and software. All of us are huge fans of open source and have participated (and created) many open projects in the scene. While most of our discussion will be focused on the positivity of […]
Retro-bit is opening pre-orders for the first official US cartridge release of Mega Man: Wily Wars for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The game is a 16-bit reimagining of the original NES 8-bit titles, with updated graphics and sound. Basically, think “Super Mario All-Stars” for the SNES, but done with the Mega Man games. […]
Developer Stefany Allaire from Foenix Retro Systems, has created an FPGA-based replacement for the YM2612 audio chip. The FPGA is flashed with Jotego’s open source YM2612 core, enabling it to act like the original chip. Also, the board it’s affixed to has the same pin spacing as the YM2612, so it should just be a […]
