Jeremy Parish just posted a short, but amazing interview with Koji Igarashi, the creator of some of the most beloved games in the Castlevania series. The interview added an interesting perspective to games like Symphony Of The Night, as they discussed how the original Legend Of Zelda…and most especially A Link To The Past was […]
The company MakeMHz has just announced a true digital-to-digital HDMI mod for the original Xbox. This is a no-cut mod that replaces the analog output port with an HDMI jack. Audio is 100% digital as well, making this the cleanest output solution currently available for the Xbox. Pre-orders are open now for an introductory price of […]
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=2020-08-26_216.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 used […]
Looks like 2020 has claimed another victim. According to Mark S. with The Video Store Shopper (aka Media Shelving), the Universal Game Case has officially been discontinued. The Universal Game Case was the go to case for a long time for systems such as SNES, N64, Genesis, Famicom, 32x, CDs. They could fit NES games […]
Steve of RetroTechUSA recently released a follow up video going over the basics of purchasing capacitors and what Do It Yourselfers (D.I.Y.) should know when buying capacitors. His previous video covered the process of creating your own “cap” kit list based on the specific manufactures data sheets per CRT models. However for this video Retro […]
Roughly a week ago, Mike Chi released his latest Retrotink product, the Retrotink-2X Pro Multiformat to the world. This new Tink product, was reviewed by Bob, who as usual, did a very thorough analysis of the product explaining what the new features are in comparison to the prior models. That said, there is always room […]
Modern Vintage Gamer just posted a video explaining how Gamy Boy cartridges work. While this video is also a good explanation of how many similar cartridge-based systems work, the focus is on the original DMG and Game Boy Color, as well as the specific methods Nintendo used to transfer data between the cartridges and console. […]
Hey everyone, Try from My Life in Gaming here. We just released a video that takes a deep dive into the world of IPS screen mods for Game Boy consoles, across DMG, Pocket, Color, Advance, and Advance SP models. The results? Well, honestly, I’m not as smitten with the whole thing as everyone else seems […]
A firmware update was just released for the Fenrir optical drive emulator, that ads a very handy feature: exFAT support. Purchase Fenrir: http://bit.ly/fenrirode That means you won’t need any special Windows software to format the MicroSD card, simply right click on the drive, hit “format” and select exFAT as the file system: UPDATE: A firmware was […]
Dear streamers: How many times have you connected your console to an HDMI splitter, just to have your console auto-detect that your 1080p setup is actually 720p? While some consoles can be forced into “unsupported” modes, consoles like the Nintendo Switch can’t go past the detected resolution. Up until now, this was thought to be […]
