For the past couple of months, the team behind Swiss, the brilliant Gamecube essential toolkit, has been hard at work custom tailoring their firmware to provide a smooth experience for the console’s power users, especially adopters of SD-card based solutions. They also added a ton of new features, fixed bugs and improved compatibility even further […]
8BitDo has announced a second new 2.4GHz RF controller this week, this one being for the original NES console, due for release on June 10th of this year. The controller itself is the exact same as the one originally released for the NES Classic, however this one comes with a receiver for the original Nintendo […]
I’m going to say something so blindingly obvious, so nearly tautological, that I might as well be telling you that water is wet: data integrity is important for retro gaming. As our current storage mediums age and decay, and we begin the arduous process of migrating our data to newer mediums with improved reliability and […]
Developer DirtyHairy has released a new version of Stella, an Atari 2600 emulator, for use on Hyperkin’s Atari 2600 emulation console, the Retron77. This update brings a variety of bug fixes and improvements from the main fork of Stella to the Retron77 build while also including some Retron77-specific features that improve the user experience. Here’s […]
Recently, SmokeMonster published an article detailing how to achieve 5x and 6x mode with MiSTer, and with the use of a Datapath Vision E1/E1S Capture Card, being able to record or stream lagless gameplay. But with the fact it’s aging hardware and the Amazon price is roughly $880, I wanted to look for other options. […]
Mega Man X is a beloved title that is often on many of gamer’s all time favorites list. The game series as a whole is loved for its action, great platforming, and most of all killer music. The original version released on the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom was an instant hit, and the power […]
Renowned console peripherals designers 8BitDo have just opened pre-orders for their new SN30 2.4 GHz wireless controller for the SNES/Super Famicom. To coincide with the release of Analogue’s Super-NT back in early 2018, 8BitDo released matching Bluetooth controllers that interfaced with the Super Nintendo’s 7-pin port through their very own dongle called the Retro Receiver. […]
Due to popular demand, Analogue is bringing back, for one final run, its very first FPGA-based system, the NT-Mini. The new revision of the Nt-Mini, simply dubbed Noir features, according to Analogue: a perfected NES cartridge slot. New UI, branding & packaging. A new 8BitDo 2.4g controller included in the box. Gold plated I/O’s. Transparent […]
I just watched the documentary “Not For Resale” (trailer above), which highlights retro video game stores, the people who run them and how the switch from physical to digital media is affecting them. The documentary has a strong focus on what the death pf physical media means for us as gamers. While digital distribution has […]
Modern Vintage Gamer just posted a video that includes a pretty cool bonus: An unreleased PS1 game based on the light cycle scene from Tron! The main video is about the $750 Net Yaroze “official homebrew” development kit for the original PlayStation. Basically, Sony wanted to create a homebrew game scene on the PS1 and […]
