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Weekly Roundup #235

Posted on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 by Bob

Here’s this week’s roundup! An audio-only version, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and for direct-download: https://www.retrorgb.com/podcast/?name=2021-01-06_235.mp3 Video available on YouTube (above), LBRY and Bitchute: Please consider signing up as a supporter! Either hit Join, tip or pledge on this video, or sign up through the following services: https://www.floatplane.com/channel/RobertNeal / https://www.patreon.com/retrorgb T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment […]

Magic Castle PlayStation game released after 23 years

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Dan Mons

The Unofficial Net Yaroze Archive has uploaded information, a developer interview and a full game ISO of a freshly completed PlayStation game named “Magic Castle”. The title began development 23 years ago, and the developers finally decided to finish and release their work. The game is a randomly generated dungeon crawler, featuring Rogue style perma-death. […]

Philips CDi USB Controller Adapter

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Bob

The Philips CDi is known for many things, one of them being a reputation for having expensive and hard to find controllers. If you’re lucky enough to pick one up, you’ll either find yourself with a model that feels like a poorly-made, aftermarket Genesis 1 controller, or a cloned Gravis Gamepad. Most likely you’ll be […]

Atari Jaguar Replacement Cartridge Shells

Posted on January 4, 2021January 3, 2021 by Bob

Hoskinson-industries is now offering a replacement shell for Atari Jaguar cartridges. They’re available in three different colors: Black for $3.50 which should match the original, plus yellow and transparent blue which are both $7. This is the same company that is selling the Jaguar “pro” controller, which was received well: https://hoskinson-industries.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage This is an excellent […]

Chimeric Systems Xbox HDMI Adapter Pre-Orders Open

Posted on January 3, 2021January 2, 2021 by Bob

Chimeric Systems is opening another round of pre-orders for their original Xbox plug and play HDMI adapter. This adapter is compatible with every revision, as well as every resolution the Xbox outputs. Pre-orders will be live on Monday the 4th at 10AM ET: https://chimericsystems.com/products/hdmi-video-adapter If you’re playing on a flat-panel, using an HDMI solution is […]

Warrior 64: Review and Repair

Posted on January 2, 2021January 28, 2021 by Bob

Here’s a video about the Warrior 64 – A kit for Nintendo 64 consoles that offers HDMI output. The new case is pretty cool, but the video circuit is one of the worst I’ve ever seen designed. I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to do this review at all. My gut told me it was […]

Amiga 500 HDMI out using Raspberry Pi and RGBtoHDMI

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Dan Mons

Many thanks to Hackaday’s recent article for bringing this to my attention: Amiga Now Includes HDMI By Way of a Raspberry Pi Daughterboard Back in June 2020, Bob reported on the RGBtoHDMI project that initially aimed to extract the 3-bit (8 colours) RGB output of the BBC Micro computer and convert it into pixel-perfect digital […]

Sega Master System non-linear blue channel findings.

Posted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 by Dan Mons

An initial tweet exchange between Chris Covell and Bernard Bygott lead to some deeper analysis by Bernard into the Sega Master System’s blue channel. Initially Chris mentioned the phenomenon: That's cool! Have you tried this analysis on the Sega Master System, by any chance? I hear its RGB is not exactly linear. — Chris Covell […]

CDi RGB Boards Now Available At RetroGamerStuff

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Bob

Retro Gamer Stuff is now selling Mobius Strip Tech’s RGB mod board for the Philips CDi. The price is around $35 plus shipping: https://retrogamerstuff.com/collections/cd-i/products/philips-cd-i-400-500-series-rgb-board?ref=9qd6Y As previously mentioned, these boards feature a really unique design that pulls H&V sync directly from the main video chip, to create csync. The previous methods of getting csync usually involved […]

Neo Geo CD Technical Overview

Posted on January 1, 2021January 4, 2023 by Bob

Nicole Branagan has just released a 2-part blog post, covering the differences between the Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD and CDz. I found the whole thing really interesting and even though I was familiar with the CD consoles, I feel like I have a far clearer understanding of exactly why some games took forever to […]