Bob

Warrior 64 Reviewed; Suspicions Confirmed

Metal Jesus just posted a review of the Warrior 64 kickstarter and unfortunately, all of our concerns have been verified:  Even after IntecGaming claimed “UltraHDMI-like quality”, it appears to be just a LevelHike cable soldered directly to the RGB output 🙁 I guess the good news is the case seemed like it was decent quality, […]

Dan Mons

Darksoft CPS3 SIMM ROM replacements

Darksoft has shown a very short work-in-progress video on the arcade-projects forums of a new Capcom CPS3 modification: https://www.arcade-projects.com/forums/index.php?thread/15229-new-cps3-simms-8-times-the-size-of-a-regular-simm/ This kit replaces the RAM SIMMs in a standard arcade CPS3 kit with flash ROMs.  This offers two distinct advantages: ROMs cannot corrupt, unlike RAM chips can. ROMs are instantly accessible, and avoid the very lengthy […]

Bob

RetroTINK 2x-M v1.6 Firmware Update

Mike Chi has just posted a new firmware for the RetroTINK 2x-Multiformat linedoubler.  Check out details below: Purchase all RetroTINK Products via multiple vendors worldwide here:  https://www.retrorgb.com/retrotink.html Firmware Update:   https://www.retrotink.com/post/retrotink-2x-pro-multiformat-firmware-page The first addition in this firmware brings the same 444+’hi-res’ that were previously added to its 480p passthrough, to it’s 576p mode.  That means PAL […]

Bob

Neo CD SD Loader Firmware v0.7 Released

Furrtek has just released a new firmware for the Neo SD optical drive emulator.  There’s some significant changes in this release, with a 25% loading speed increase and the ability to load custom backgrounds to the menu:  http://furrtek.free.fr/sdloader/support/firmware.htm Alex aka ArcadeTV has already created some custom menu backgrounds for it and they’re equally as impressive as […]

Bob

PiTrex Raspberry Pi Vectrex Interface

There’s a new project for Vectrex consoles that allows you to route a Raspberry Pi Zero…right through the cartridge port!  This is all possible, because the Vectrex’s cartridge port is granted access to pretty much the entire system, including the controls and display.  As a result, this project essentailly turns the Vectrex into an emulation-based […]

Rany Battikh

X-station firmware 1.0.4 released

While it’s only been a couple of weeks since the X-station received its latest firmware update, the project’s main developer ramapcsx2  just released yet another newer update that improves, or rather simplifies compatibility and addresses a few bugs. Introduced by Sony in 1998, Libcrypt is extra code stored on quite a few PAL PS disc/games […]

Bob

Darksoft’s Namco System 1 Multi: Pre-Orders Open

Pre-orders are now open for Darksoft’s Namco System 1 Multi, that we previously covered a few months ago.  The price is around $375 + shipping, but you’ll also need a proper programmer (and, of course, a Namco System 1 arcade board).  It’s due to ship in late/December, early January: North American Seller:  https://highscoresave.com/darksoft-multi-namco-system-1-kit/ European Seller:  http://www.saveyourgames.it/index.php?route=product/product&path=89&product_id=174 Unlike […]