Mike Chi, creator of the RetroTINK line of products has just uploaded a free design that’s an RGBHV to RGBs sync combiner. This is NOT a 480p VGA to SCART downscaler, just a connector and sync converter!!! Please allow me to explain… The purpose of this board, is twofold: To simply change a connector from […]
As of March 23rd, 2020, Hi-Fi retro console manufacturer Analogue Inc has abandoned its trademark for the long-rumoured Analogue 8 console. Filed in mid-2019 along with the Analogue Pocket trademark, the listing sparked rumours that Analogue was designing a console similar to the Nt Mini but with a focus on reducing costs by eliminating the […]
The Sega Nomad’s screen has not aged well. Between it’s terrible quality compared to modern screens and it’s heavy battery consumption, users of the Nomad usually prefer to upgrade to a modern LCD screen. Up until recently, most screen replacement options used composite video to drive it and while that was still an upgrade, feeding […]
A few weeks ago, Bob brought us word about Trophy, a new action-platformer for the NES that he was able to play in person at a convention. If you missed the post, Trophy is a Capcom style game that is very much reminiscent of Mega Man with elements of Duck Tales and other NES classics […]
Analogue has started shipping the replacements for the faulty Mega Sg Game Gear adapter. The new adapter looks the same on the outside, but the internal circuit board seems to have quite a few routing changes, as well as a switch from through-hole to surface mount components. Oddly enough, there’s still pads on the back […]
GamingAlexandria published an interesting article chronicling the story behind the unreleased Nintendo 64 game, Viewpoint 2064, complemented by an excellent video by Hard4Games. Viewpoint 2064 was completed and scheduled for a Nov 2000 release, but was ultimately cancelled. A fully-working ROM dump of the prototype was posted to The Internet Archive. The cart’s dumping and […]
CastleMania Games has just opened pre-orders on a new run of the RetroTINK Ultimate Raspberry Pi Hat, with plans to ship in June: https://bit.ly/2QTc5IG The ‘TINK Ultimate’ is a device that connects to the top of a Raspberry Pi and allows for 240p RGB, Component, S-Video and Composite video output. While you can accomplish 240p […]
Markus has just released a new firmware for the CPS2HDMI kits, that ads multiple resolutions to the output. Download the .jlc file for your USB Blaster here, but read through this whole post for all the awesome details!: https://github.com/marqs85/cps2_digiav/ …and get your CPSHDMI kits here: https://retrorgb.link/cpshdmi After loading the new firmware, the CPS2HDMI will always boot in […]
EDIT 04/02: It looks like the price has gone up since it’s original announcement from $96 to $123.81. EDIT 04/09: There’s been some confusion on the price: The increase was only from $96 to about $103 – The $124 amount includes VAT (20%), which only applies to the EU. Everywhere else will pay $103. EDIT: […]
Modern Vintage Gamer recently posted a video describing why the PS1’s graphics sometimes “wobbled”, while games from the N64 wouldn’t exhibit the same behavior. In short, the answer is a combination of the graphics chips, as well as the buffering and scaling capabilities of each. On original hardware, this would often result in the PlayStation […]
