Bob

Weekly Roundup #233

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=2020-12-23_233.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 […]

Alex Mitchell

FirebrandX Releases Nt Mini Noir Settings Guide

Granular control over the way audio and video is rendered has always been one of Analogue’s prominent features, but it can be daunting to navigate those menus without a comprehensive knowledge of retro gaming hardware, broadcast standards, and the artistic intent of the era’s developers. Fortunately, retro gaming guru FirebrandX has published a series of videos and documents […]

Bob

Game And Watch Homebrew Status Update

Stacksmashing has just posted a video, summing up the current status of Game & Watch hacking.  There’s been a ton of work already completed, such as fully reverse-engineered schematics, a replacement memory chip to allow more games to be stored and even X-Ray’s of the PCB! Game And Watch:  https://amzn.to/34ou2p7 Programmer:  https://amzn.to/34kJ27m The community has taken […]

Alex Mitchell

SuperRT Brings Ray Tracing to the SNES

Engineer and game developer Ben Carter has demonstrated a proof of concept “SuperRT” expansion chip that brings 3D ray tracing to the Super Nintendo. Ray tracing—a computationally demanding technique used to calculate realistic lighting in 3D graphics engines—has only recently become possible to render in real time on consumer level hardware, and at a hefty […]

Bob

Super Mario World SA-1 Patch

Romhacker Vitor Vilela has just released an updated rom patch for Super Mario World.  Vitor’s patches use the SA-1 enhancement chip to allow higher performance than the original Super Nintendo could have provided. These hacks can be played on the MiSTer, via the FXPak & FXPak Pro, via software emulation…and if you’d like to go […]