Loïc Petit has expanded his CPS-2 board traces into a fully fledged backwards engineering project with the goal of creating complete CPS-2 schematics for repair and FPGA use. The project aims to describe the circuits of both the PCB and its custom chips. More details: https://gitlab.com/loic.petit/cps2-reverse
InsideGadgets just released a VGA out solution for the Game Boy Advance named Advance VGA. The Altera Max 10 based Advance VGA offers 3x scaling of the GBA’s original 240×160 resolution and outputs at a fixed resolution of 800×600 through a D-sub connector, while maintaining the system’s original refresh rate of 59.7 Hz. The main […]
Extrems has released a few more updates of the Game Boy Interface software. As usual, there’s an impressive list of additions and bugfixes and anyone using GBi should update their SD cards. As always, I recommend using GBi along with the latest version of Swiss. Here’s the changelog since the July GBi update: All GBi […]
Here’s an interview with the person who’s responsible for all of our NES’ to finally output good video: Tim Worthington. As the creator of the NESRGB, 2600RGB and the first to release an N64RGB, he’s changed the experience of almost everyone in the retro gaming scene! I was thrilled to have him over and talk […]
A Youtuber by the name of Andreas Scholl has quietly posted a few work-in-progress videos of his Burning Rangers tribute demo. Right away, I was blown away by just how much the game looks like an upscaled Dreamcast port of the original Saturn release. See below: The description on this video states: This shows the […]
Back in August, I had the opportunity to speak with developer Coin Feeder about his upcoming “tate” shoot-em-up (shmup) game for the Neo-Geo named Project Neon. In addition to describing what the game would entail, at the time, he shared with me that he planned to launch a crowdfunding campaign in order to get his […]
Kevin Mellott has just opened pre-orders for a single-flash cart for the Virtual Boy, called the HyperFlash32: http://www.mellottsvrpage.com/index.php/hyperflash32/ Kevin’s previously announced MultiBoy32 – a device closer to a true ROM cart, has been delayed for a number of reasons, one of which is the lack of Virtual Boy cartridge connectors available. Since the only other […]
Retro Fighters just posted an update on their Kickstarter page. In it they state that the initial samples are finished and wish to get the prototypes into a test batch production run. If the pilot production and final set of testing is successful. Mass production will soon follow. Retro Fighters had hoped to have these […]
The Japanese Dreamcast game Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream has just been translated to English: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/5091/ Napple Tale is a 2.5d “action adventure” game, that today seems crazy it wouldn’t be released outside of Japan. I guess back in 2000 when it was released, the mainstream market was shifting more towards 3D role-playing games and the developers […]
I recently started collecting old Nintendo Power magazines (because I can’t help myself). I originally had a subscription from mid 2000 til the end. I got to enjoy some good years, but I feel like the REALLY good years were everything prior to me getting the magazines. Anyways, after thumbing through Vol 68 (January 1995) […]
