Furrtek has just posted a video that gives us a glimpse into how he decaps his chips and how he begins his reverse-engineering process. To anyone unfamiliar with this, please allow me to explain: In order to create accurate FPGA (hardware emulation) cores, you essentially need to recreate the original hardware in HDL (Hardware Description […]
Last year, I reported on an effort by Gc8tech to scan the rare Nintendo Power Cartridge Service Manual in high resolution. The Nintendo Power service (not the magazine of the same namesake) was a kiosk based flash cartridge that Nintendo offered in Japan, where users could buy an SF-Cassette that could be reflashed with Super […]
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Krikzz is continuing to push out updates for both the original N8 and newly released N8 Pro ROM carts for the NES and Famicom. This current v2.03 update ads three new mappers, while also fixing issues with three existing ones: New mappers: 208, 195, 261 Changed FDS autoswap controller. Fixes for mapper 99, 198, 4 […]
Developer Thunderstruck has just completed the English translation of the Virtual Boy game SD Gundam. The game previously had all most of the in-game text translated, but this patch finishes the original work and even includes the end credits. Sometimes people underestimate the importance of game translations. While they’re not as flashy as full game […]
The MSX will be getting a physical version of a recently released shmup game called Uchūsen Gamma. Preorders as reported by ericb59 on MSX.org, are up and buyers can secure a preorder for their MSX, but need to make sure that their MSX has 16K of RAM installed to run this game. Shipments should start […]
A $225 linedoubler has just been released from Irken Labs, called the Retro Scaler A1. It accepts 15KHz (240p/480i) signals and doubles that to 31KHz / 480p VGA. The project has been in the works for about two and a half years and Irkin Labs seems to be focusing on special features not commonly found […]
A prototype of an unreleased Sega Genesis Star Wars game was recently made available to the public thanks to the combined efforts of Hidden Palace and the Cutting Room Floor. Based on the 1992 Super Nintendo/Famicom game Super Star Wars, the unnamed Genesis game was being developed by Sega Interactive, an in-house studio responsible […]
Behar Bros just announced, through their official Facebook page, the completion of the VGA 16 project, a 480p outputting solution for Neo Geo MVS boards. Following the reveal of their dual-ouput (VGA & RGBs) consolized MVS earlier this year, the Behar Bros have decided to release the FPGA-based line-doubling RGBHV VGA board, used with the […]
Following up on the release of last year’s Technoptimistic album on a Sega Genesis cart, Remute’s 10th album “The Cult Of Remute” is being released on a Super Famicom cartridge! Both albums were programmed to use the console’s audio chips to generate the sounds and not just use an audio passthough of an MP3. This […]
