St1ka has just reviewed the physical version of Voyage – A Sorceress’ Vacation: A new game for the Sega Master System that was released last year. The game is based off the Alex Kidd engine and seems to be a fun platformer. Also, both the physical copy and PCB itself seems to be high quality, […]
A Kickstarter campaign for a new online gaming platform called Piepacker was just funded. The service aims to provide legal, licensed retro games, as well the the ability to load your own roms, to emulate games across the internet in a Chrome or Edge browser. Other features allow audio & video chat while the game […]
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The MemCard Pro is now available in Smoke Black, Frost White, Classic Grey, Red Frost and Blue Frost! There’s no other change to the design, however I’m really glad to see the new choices added: Aesthetics are really important to many collectors and I know getting one in red or blue might push people over […]
Sony has just officially announced that after the public backlash regarding the closure of their online stores, they’ve reversed their decision: While the PSP store will still close on July 2nd of this year as planned, they’ll be keeping both the PS3 and PS Vita stores open. No specific end date was mentioned, but I get […]
Will Gentry from Will’s Console Modifications is now selling a board that adds in-game reset functionality to the original Playstation. Based on the open-source project started by pyroesp in 2019, Will’s board provides the ability to reset the system itself or the launched game through different button combinations. But unlike the original design, which involves […]
The excellent, fan-created Metroid II remake “AM2r” is now available as part of the TwisterOS Raspberry Pi operating system. While this was possible before, there’s one huge difference: The previous version of AM2r on a RPi was 86 Windows build, running via box86+WINE. This is an x86 Linux build, running only via box86, which should improve […]
Tito from Macho Nacho productions has just posted a video demoing and installing a new IPS screen mod for the Game Boy Advance. This one requires no modification to the original case and is completely plug and play – Zero soldering required! The screen doesn’t seem to be as bright as other options and doesn’t […]
Saint from RetroHQ has just released the latest firmware for his Atari Jaguar Game Drive. This version adds preliminary support for Jaguar CD images, however they need to be converted and loaded in the proper order. Please see below for more info: Download the firmware here (bottom of page): https://www.retrohq.co.uk/products/atari-jaguar-gd-flash-cartridge Jaguar GameDrive US Seller: http://bit.ly/jaguargamedrive GameDrive […]
The modding group Map Labs has recently released a new mod for Half-Life 2 in their Test Tube series called Crossfire. Map Labs is a mapping competition for Half-Life 2 where they get a bunch of people together to make maps based on a theme that gets chosen for the mod. The mappers are given […]
