Carrying on with their line of SEGA legacy controllers, Retro-Bit just revealed the preliminary design for their upcoming Dreamcast controller. What’s different this time, is that Retro-Bit with the collaboration of SEGA, altered the the classic design of the not-so-popular original DC controller, opting for: 6 face-button layout (similar to the Saturn 3D controller, 2D […]
It looks like the 240p Test Suite team has just posted a new update to the MD Fourier audio testing section of the software. First, the Audio Equipment Test profile has been tuned even more, offering recording analysis up to 96k and helping to further test the recording capabilities of the recording hardware itself; Something […]
Lately, I’ve been hearing more people talk about replacing a console’s internal power supply. Sometime’s it’s as simple as the original died and people have the skills to replace the power board, but not to recap and repair it, making a new design a convenient option. Other times, it’s because people are looking for wordwide […]
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I recently did a podcast / interview with St1ka over Skype, to discuss his videos, new games on old consoles and some of the drama involved in all of that. This is much more of a “conversation with a friend” than a formal “interview”, however I hope people still enjoy listening. Also, we forgot to […]
Retro Fighters recently released an update indicating the current state of production and expectations for shipping their new Dreamcast controller. They state additional time is needed due to the Covid 19 pandemic, and now expects to have one more update for backers indicating when the factory shipments are moving to the warehouses and fulfillment facilities. […]
Krikzz just posted an update via twitter showing off his prototype Mega EverDrive Pro. With any luck krikzz will get this finished soon, and users of this EverDrive variant will have many more options including the much requested Sega CD support. Making this more powerful “pro” version of EverDrive a good form of competition to […]
Modern Vintage Gamer recently added a new video to his YouTube channel showcasing an incredibly special insight into coding and porting game source material. In his video he breaks down his process of taking the open source code for the game Heart of Darkness and using that code to port its source to the original […]
A few weeks ago, Dreamcast aficionados FatalistDC and Jan Baumgartner started a small-scale fundraiser aiming at dumping and immediately releasing the disc image of the unreleased Dreamcast port Heroes of Might and Magic III – The Restoration of Erathia. The turned based strategy cult classic game at hand saw release on Windows, Macintosh and Linux […]
GoldS, an admin and writer at video game research wiki The Cutting Room Floor, has released a patch for Super Mario Bros. (NES) that fixes a bug in the code that governs Lakitu’s behaviour when throwing spiny eggs: “The Spiny eggs are thrown by Lakitu in a simple way, with no horizontal movement whatsoever. However, this […]
