I appreciate it when companies like 8BitDo update tried and true designs with a few modern amenities—wireless connection, turbo buttons, etc.—but it’s also nice to see companies throw convention to the wind and take a crack at reinventing the wheel. Enter Retro Fighters: the Kickstarter controller darlings of retro gaming, hellbent on creating alternatives to […]
Developer/Modder SegaSonicFan just released a kit that replaces the Virtual Boy’s original problematic eyepiece flat cable assembly, called: the Virtual Ribbon. The Virtual Ribbon unassembled kit consists of two right-angle mounted PCBs for each eyepiece, two ribbon cables, and two separate connectors (each must be soldered to the main Virtual Ribbon PCBs). SSF went for […]
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*Updated July 23rd 2020, see below A developer posting under the name “uniq games” has just created an automatic script that converts video files to a format that’s compatible with the Sega Genesis when using a Mega Everdrive Pro. The videos run at an extremely impressive resolution of 288×192 at 30fps! According to the dev, this […]
Modern Vintage Gamer just posted a video talking about the newly released source code for Doom on the Super Nintendo, as well as its history. It’s interesting that the “Reality Engine” created to run Doom on the Super FX 2 chip was much different from the official Doom source code and created by one developer, Randy […]
The Roland MPU-401 is an old MIDI device required for DOS games that depend on the Roland MT-32’s intelligent mode. Like the MT-32 module itself, the 401s have skyrocketed in price and are now incredibly rare and expensive. PCMIDI is a new ISA card that re-creates this functionality at a fraction of the price, selling […]
This video highlights GBS Control, the amazing custom software from Rama that converts the mediocre GBS8200 scaler into an AWESOME piece of retro gaming hardware! I’ll cover the basics from assembly & programming, to lag testing and comparisons. Donate to Rama: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ramapcsx2 GBS8200: https://amzn.to/2Y1gLju ESP8266 WiFi Module for GBS Control: https://amzn.to/3g3Ex4R Clock generator: https://github.com/ramapcsx2/gbs-control/wiki/Si5351-Clock-Generator-install-notes https://amzn.to/32a89Kb […]
A developer has just released both a 3D printed design and PCB layout for an open-source Sega Master System to Game Gear cartridge adapter, called the MS2GG: https://github.com/ms2gg/doc/wiki This would be a replacement for original cartridge converters, such as the Master Gear Converter. Since the Game Gear is essentially a portable Master System, you get pretty […]
The emulator/dev tool Emulicious has just received another major update. According to the developer, this update ads a Hot Spots view for the profiler, a CPU tab for the Memory Editor and a dialog to add watchpoints. It also added support for MIDI devices to be used with MSX emulation. As a note, while emulicious […]
One developer has started a project that created a completely open source code for HDMI output on FPGA devices. This is opposed to using licensed code, or using the DVI protocol over HDMI ports. If you’re looking to create any HDMI-outputting FPGA devices, this might be worth looking at: https://github.com/hdl-util/hdmi/ A note about using HDMI: […]
