Earlier today, 3D design and printing shop Laser Bear Industries began taking orders for their latest product: a Sega Saturn mounting bracket that provides stability and gives access to buttons, LEDs, and the SD card slot on Terraonion’s MODE. Some things to mention: Model 1 and Model 2 Saturns have different internal layouts, and their mounting brackets […]
A modding group has released a Mesen HD Pack based on the Zelda 1 Redux patch that adds remastered audio and graphics to The Legend of Zelda: This remaster is a pretty extensive overhaul of the original game and looks terrific in this video. While I know a lot of enthusiasts prefer to enjoy games in their […]
The MVSx is an arcade emulation machine that comes with around fifty Neo Geo games pre-loaded. Beast and I took a look at how it performed and overall it was pretty impressive. The lag was respectable and the panel looked great (in pixel perfect mode), but the stick wasn’t our favorite and the list of […]
Sega are having a sale on Steam currently, with their “Sega Genesis and Megadrive Classics Collection” getting a 90% discount, and coming it at under $10: https://store.steampowered.com/app/34270/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/ Included are 58 games. Sega provide an interesting “virtual room” experience with a TV and shelves showing off the games (including VR mode which is kind of cool), however […]
flashmasta.com is now selling the latest version of their ROM cart for the Bandai WonderSwan, the WS Flash Masta version 5.1. The product is $95 +shipping and available directly from their website (set the dust cover option, or it will say out of stock): https://www.flashmasta.com/product/ws-flash-masta-usb-cartridge-for-wonderswan/ Very small production runs of the cart had been previously […]
Mobius Strip Tech has just began selling an adapter that lets you use Zaxxon arcade boards with JAMMA connectors. This is perfect for people who have existing arcade cabinets with JAMMA harnesses, or even with superguns like the HAS or MiniGun that are JAMMA-based. The price is $20 plus shipping: https://mobiusstriptechnologies.com/product/sega-zaxxon-arcade-to-jamma-adapter/ EDIT: Looks like Mobius also […]
Introduction GroovyArcade is an entire Linux distribution dedicated to running emulators (including MAME) on a standard PC, outputting video signals to standard definition arcade CRT monitors. This is a brief introduction to the project, as a dedicated how-to would require many pages and videos to go through all the options available. https://github.com/substring/os/releases http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130667.0.html The […]
The Sega Saturn Strategy-RPG, Zanma Chou Ougi: Valhollian (Datt Japan, 1998) has been translated to English by Garrett Greenwalt, Paul Met, Aishsha, and Pennywise. This will be of interest to fans of JRPGs like Shining Force. It was a Japanese exclusive and has never appeared in English until now. Sega Retro has some good information […]
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I documentary was just posted about Galloping Ghost, which is (at the moment) the world’s largest arcade with over seven hundred arcade games. I was lucky enough to to there myself a few times and the wide selection of games was pretty incredible. I think in times like today where there’s a very real chance of […]
